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Background: received this assignment from a client...
Article 1 Keyword phrase: xxxxx
Article 2 Keyword phrase: xxxxx

Those are the first two articles. Those are the keyword phrases. Each article only has one keyword phrase. I'll worry about a compelling title if you can just write up two professional articles geared toward the intelligent business crowd.
If you can use the keyword phrase 3 times throughout naturally throughout each article, that would be great.

Thanks so much. I just need them by tomorrow evening or Monday morning. If you like them, I have more. No one else wants them. They don't know anything about stocks. Just be sure the articles you use for research are very recent, since i know things change a lot. But on these articles, probably not.

Thanks so much!

Read my email Monday Morning and client is emailing writing team and reassigning articles because she has not received articles "on time".

Had the first article finished, so I sent it solo at 7am PST and let the client know I still had work to do on the second. I received this response: Briefly looked over the first one and it seems fine. I'll edit it and wait on the second. Thank you I just get a bit freaked out because I've had some "no show" articles.

Sent in the second article at 7:58 am PST and received this response:

I am sorry but your work was late and you didn't even follow directions. This morning at 10 am you let me know that you were "editing" work that you did last night. I don't take kindly to liars and I knew you were running behind and avoiding me. You didn't write these til today. The only instructions for this simple article was to include the keywords. You said that you could not manage that. The simplest of writers can figure out a way to include keywords naturally. Are you kidding me?

DO NOT bill me for the second article, since it is a joke. People THINK they are writers... They PRESENT themselves as writers... but they are FAR from it.

Since you have not found a way to put the keywords I asked for 3 times naturally, which was the clients request, this is a breach of contract and you are cut from the team. I have a lot of work right now and will not put up with sub-par performance. I plan on increasing everyone's pay according to performance. I guess you are the first example of poor performance.

Thank you for what you've done, but you are no longer a part of xxxx team. I am forwarding this message to all other writers on our team.


Here is my too polite response to the rude behavior of this client:
I appreciate your candor xxxx, and I hope in the future you can truly think about your words before you send them in an email. FYI the first article was written last night. The second article was halfway done when I went to sleep last night. The first thing I did when I got up at 7am this morning was finish up the second article. If you can find a way to put the phrase what is capital gains into the article three times, be my guest.

I don't appreciate being called a liar and I don't appreciate being insulted. The least you could do is be civil. At any rate, I will only bill you for the first article.

Good luck on your future endeavors.


What do you think?
A - I will never get paid for the article she accepted.
B - The client is always right, just suck it up and move on -- forget the $10 and the article she is using.
C - She was very unprofessional, and I'm lucky I got out when I did -- forget the $10 and the article she is using..
D - Hey that's what People's Court is for!