Gig Worker Trends

Long term freelancer sharing tips, tricks, and data to help you grow your own business.

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@PNCBank_Help My concerns were not important to you at all. You caused me to lose $2,800 last week... I'm a small business and I clearly don't matter to you.

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@PNCBank_Help @PNCBank I have missing deposits. I was on hold for almost 2 hours only to be told that the deposits should show up in 3 to 5 business days... What does that mean? Well, now my employees can't get paid. You people suck and I'm switching banks.

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@ask_progressive Nope... I had to handle everything myself. Y'all should be ashamed.

12 hours without a tow. I was able to handle it in 45 minutes. You suck.

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@progressive Guess who has been a customer for 8 years and has been waiting for a tow truck for 10 hours today?

This is ridiculous. Why do I even pay you people?

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@DavidCWG @linode Lol, imagine this being something you complain about. "Oh no, I encountered a cloudflare captcha.."

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@sanantonioheron your website is down.

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@gitlabstatus Not operational at all.

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Concerning change of #career. From #CareerCoach to #autoimmune health consultant...

I don't know lady, this just seems shady AF.

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Starting to see a slight downtrend in daily US #jobs on #Upwork

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@hackerb0t @NeshaGoLance #AgedLikeMilk

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Despite the best efforts of @Upwork and their messaging system I landed a big contract today. What is the first thing the client asks after I accept the offer?

"Can we switch to #Zoom now?"

Don't worry #Upwork I apologized again to the client on your behalf.

#Freelancer

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Back to our regularly scheduled programming. Have some #Upwork data.

Average hourly pay rates for the top 10 categories.

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@NeshaGoLance @Upwork Had to get it out. Not like it matters.

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@Upwork and @hydnbrwn I'm sick of starting client relationships by having to apologize about having to use your mediocre messaging system.

Your #freelancers and #clients are both unhappy.

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@UpworkHelp @hydnbrwn Thanks for the canned response. I'd rather see @hydnbrwn address the issue. It's a real problem that we have to apologize for the platform with clients.

Are you forced to use crappy communication tools internally?

Ridiculous...

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I'm going to be blown away if anyone from @Upwork bothers responding.

#Freelancer

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Was that the plan to make $UPWK profitable?

Hold #freelancers and #clients #ransom with trash tooling and hope for more clients to pay for enterprise membership to be allowed to use #professional #communication #software?

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I picked up the "Top Rated Plus" badge on #Upwork last week. I'm kind of a big deal. lol

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It's sad but it has been proven time and time again that your tweet won't reach anyone who cares @Upwork

I really enjoy working on #Upwork but am always working on other income streams because they clearly can't be trusted.

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@thethomaslayton @greggretsch @hydnbrwn It's so bitter how @Upwork dish out outright suspension without room for appeal over an issue that could have simply been resolved by a video call. I wish #upwork would care more about freelancers.
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