Attention ALL Virtual Employers

It has been a very frustrating week for me. Why? because I got two inconsiderate clients who haven’t paid yet.

I can’t understand why people treat their online workers like S.H.I.T!!! If we are working in their office, most likely our compensation are always on time, but what do they do to virtual workers? Let them sweat it out for payments. No matter how many emails you sent to inform them that their monthly payment is due, they just ignore it, worst thing is, you keep receiving emails with instructions on your work.

One virtual colleague of mine complained to me the other day. Her employer pays her every end of the month, she would want payment every two weeks, but it’s an inconvenience for her employer so he rather pay her on a monthly basis, and that is fine if he pays on time, the thing is he doesn’t. So what happens? she is late on her payment for the room and board and the landlady has asked her very politely to leave because she is always late!

Why can’t these virtual employers be more considerate? You expect a certain quality of the work rendered by your virtual workers, isn’t it common courtesy to pay on time? What if your virtual worker is the breadwinner of the family? Is she going to tell her kids or other family members to hold on eating for a while because Y.O.U haven’t paid?

What these virtual employers don’t realize is that they have all the advantage already on getting home based worker, let me count it off:

1. home based workers or virtual workers are cheaper than actual worker, everybody knows that.

2. home based workers are paid on a monthly basis or every two weeks, the thing is it’s always late payment. If you get a big call center, you have to prompt on your payment.

3. Big call centers request for revolving funds, home based call center operator has to have own funds to pay their workers.

4. If the employer is late in payment, the home based worker cannot do anything unless they want to let go of the project. With big call center, try not paying and see if they won’t sue you.

5. There is no holiday for home based worker except for Christmas and New Year. One absent because you’re sick or something, the virtual employer would want to deduct your compensation. With office workers, at least they have two weeks off vacation with pay, plus sick leave and maternity leave all with P.A.Y.

6. Home based workers are expected to work harder because you are home based.

So please virtual employers P.A.Y. On T.I.M.E.

I think I should implement a rule that for every late payment there would be a fine or a day off for us, sounds much better instead of me hounding them with emails.