Yep.
So I'm working for this guy who sells auto parts, and I'm doing Search Engine Optimization — basically going on this website he gives me and editing descriptions of parts so that when potential customers google different products, his site comes up first and they'll buy from him.
It's pretty complicated stuff, so the first few times I met up with him, he just kind of showed me the basics, easing me into the whole process. After maybe 3 lessons, he gives me a book and some more stuff to read, sets me up with some parts and their links so that I'm good to work at home. I fill everything in; it takes maybe an hour, I save my work, and I email him letting him know that I've finished and can do more if he needs me to. Nothing.
Two days later I go on vacation to visit family for 2 or 3 days, maybe a 3 hour drive from where I live. Before I go, I shoot him another email saying that I can work from there if he tells me what to do, but that I won't be able to make or receive calls.
Again, nothing.
I
come back from vacation, and the mother****er
still hasn't replied to my emails or voicemail. I make sure I did in fact send everything to the right address, and call him up like "Yo, I did the work and sent you two emails. What do you want me to do now."
"Oh, well Matt... You never filled in those parts from me, and then I didn't hear from you again. I assumed you weren't interesting in doing the work."
Me:
Very awkward small-talk ensues and he hangs up shortly.
I wasn't paid ONCE, and I still have a STRONG suspicion that he hired someone else to do the work while I was on vacation.
I never gave him back that book though, so...
