Dear Community,
this issue I am having is partly also my fault, because I failed to give Feedback to the client in the forseen time period, but I feel like I still owe to somehow mark/share/warn about this unpleasant experience.
I have worked with a client on proofreading an App, it was translated from English to German, and I reviewed/corrected the translation.(Which was most probably a machine-translated text)
The first suspicious thing about this job was that the client asked me to communicate via Google Hangouts, which I sadly agreed to. That was supposed to be only an interview, but I ended up dictating every word of the correction, which she wrote down, so the call lasted over an hour.
After that, I had to rewrite all these changes into an Excel Document, even though I just did that verbally on the call. One other thing is that she asked me to specfically describe and explain all the grammatical changes that I made(which was useless to her, since she has no knowledge of German grammar and syntax). I worked one hour for her, except of course the way too long Hangouts Call.
After that, the client constantly kept sending me individual sentences for me to translate, promising me that I would also get paid for that.
At this point I realized that this was not alright and ended our communication.
Later on, while giving me Feedback, she starred my Skills and Quality to 4 stars, which was qutie irritating, since she also mentioned that she herself does not speak German and since I only worked an hour for her, it was even more frustrating because it permanently damaged my JSS (I splipped from Top Rated to a 89% JSS).
So my concern is, if there is any way to Flag or let Upwork/other Freelancers know about this situation, because I failed to give the client a Feedback.
Luckily, my JSS has gone up since than, thanks to many of my satisfied clients, but nevertheless, it was an unpleasant experience.
Thanks in andvance to everyone who reads this long text 🙂
