Hello guys and gals! I saw that my oldest post (outsourcing secrets - here, on DP) gained some attention and I told myself, let's just tell you a lesson I learned today. As a business person (I don't call myself a business person, rather a person that's trying to learn about business the hard way) I find myself in the position to make strong decisions and both profit and lose lots of money with those decision. You made them, I made them and we both learned about it. A good lesson I learned over the years is always to be honest with your clients. If you have a delay or you have a problem in your family then you better anounce your client about it. I fire people who lie to me. That's all. You should do that too! People lie because they think that's the best way to cover their tracks and be responsable. Schools teaches most of us to lie because sometime we were afraid to tell our parents with took not so good grades, but in business everything it's different. Lies means loss and I can't say more! I hired an outsourcer a couple of days before this to write some articles for me for a new site. I'm always suspicios. That outsourcer was working with my girlfriend because I don't have the time to deal with that. I just hire him and let her deal with him, as I teach her. She paid him every batch of articles, at time and she decided some deadlines and strict rules - articles have to be original. She didn't tell him about Copyscape, rather she waited for original articles, on the subject. Grammar was ok, so don't worry about it. That outsoucer copied 2-3 articles at the beginning. She gave him a rule - no more. If you do it one more time I'll fire you and don't pay you. That outsourcer made another copy or two and she was mad. She told him nicely to re-write the articles and he started to tell her bad words. I was mad too, because no one is telling bad words to my women for no reasons, you get it. So, she decided to met that guy (yes, we traveled half the country for him) and to ask him to tell her that bad words in person. So see if he got the courage. You know what? That guy never had the courage to tell anything to her (I was there too), but, after we left (trust me, we had a 2 hour live conversation - yes, with the thief), she sms'ed me to tell "she was lucky I'm a nice guy, either way I would beaten her". I told him ok, let him do his job, altough I'm sure I could play with his body very easy (you know what I mean). But yes, people are not responsable and they think it's easy to tell bad words in front of computer, but live they are cowards and poor people. What do you think? The story is real!
First of all what psychology is there in this little story of yours? Do you enjoy being the big bad dragon that scares little kids at night and threaten people in a 'not-so-nice' manner? Take it from me... if you were id****c enough to leave an important task to your girlfriend (where you were the one responsible for teaching her to set the right rules and guidelines in the first place), then I wonder about your character as a person. You are clearly threatening an individual who you probably underpaid in the first place and never explained the situation as you should have. You can't even take responsibility for your actions here as you don't realise that you are the one that is in the wrong since you went about hiring this person who had no idea about copyscape. A real business professional would have pointed out the mistake to the writer for not doing it right, explain how it actually works and ask that the next article be original. If the next article was not original, all you had to do was politely explain that the writer does not have your best interest at heart and that you are terminating his contract. By flying half way across the country to prove how 'scary' you can be just makes you sound like a bloody tyrant and frankly if it was me, you would be in jail right now if I was that writer. I would suggest you take your psychology somewhere else where posts like these are welcomed. It doesn't matter to me if the story is real or not. Just by suggesting it, you show some real disturbing tendencies and need to seek psychological help.
It's not my day into the business, rather I have years in my back. But I'm sick of people who run away in the internet and in real life they don't have the courage to tell anything. Let me remind you I didn't treat that person and we agreed to meet because he's a ex-friend of mine. We did business before and we didn't treat each other live, rather talk with a couple of beers. He was not a little kid, rather he is older and bigger than me, so don't try to make the story sound different, because it's not.