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| Innovations Media Consulting No pay for completed work Internet, Texas |
| 23rd of Sep, 2011 by User532896 |
| There are certain things that Robin Malka of Innovations Media Consulting does not do: She does not answer her phone, she does not return phone calls, she does not respond to email, and she does not pay the people who work for her. It isn't presented as a "one man operation" but that's what it is. I responded to an ad on craigslist for a job. Long story short I got my first assignment from Innovations Media Consulting to do a sort of online/telephone secret shopper kind of gig. The deal is that you go online and fill out forms acting as though you're interested in what they're offering. Then you get a call from a telemarketer, and you evaluate the telemarketer. I should have guessed that with all of the people out there that are looking for legitimate work-from-home opportunities it wouldn't be that easy. I wouldn't say it sounded "too good to be true", but it sounded pretty decent. There was the drawback that you had to be available to take calls pretty much all day every day. I guess there are enough people trying to get opportunities like this that Robin could just use each individual one time and then move on to the next and never pay any of them. The reason I say its a one man operation (or one woman, as the case may be) is because when I received my assignment, Robin was listed as my go-to person... my manager. I was given her phone number and name as the person to call with questions. I could never reach her. Later, I decided to go above her head, so I went to the company's website to get the company number. The number listed as the company number was her number. Also, its a cell phone. When you get your first assignment from them they refer to you as an employee - even though you're doing contract work. I overlooked the semantical error at the time, but this in itself could land her in some trouble. In particular the IRS frowns on treating contract workers as employees because people do this to avoid paying employer taxes. So now I am also probably going to be reporting her to the IRS. One last thing: When I received my first assignment (it consisted of 10 evaluations, and I was promised to be paid $250 after the completion of them, to be paid to my PayPal account the Friday after I turned the work in... it has been three weeks and I have not been paid despite an email informing her that I would file a complaint with the Office of the Attourney General in her state if she did not pay me. I don't think she even reads her emails) I was informed that once I had evaluated a telemarketer I would not be contacted by that company again. Also untrue. I am now being innundated with phone calls. |
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