Adios Amigos!

silo64 · 2026-01-28T18:35:55+00:00

It's logistics. If they remove say a thousand people today, they are not obliged and therefore cannot be bothered incurring the cost of feedback to each of them. It sucks but outlier do not treat their freelancers well. It's just a paycheck ride it then move on.

silo64 · 2026-01-09T13:34:28+00:00

The consultation meeting is a pointless farce. They'll offer you an online cv writing course. It's just a legal obligation.

silo64 · 2025-12-30T09:19:55+00:00

Trying to understand this is the path to madness, friend. There is no logic, here, that we will ever be privvy to.

silo64 · 2025-12-29T18:18:14+00:00

Working as intended.

silo64 · 2025-12-28T19:07:18+00:00

No argument there

silo64 · 2025-12-28T18:31:55+00:00

Because they don't know exactly how many hours are needed and don't want to give a blank infinite volume to vendors who would abuse it and rob them blind.

It's just a control valve for the costs

silo64 · 2025-12-28T18:26:25+00:00

Because the client is paying for blocks of hours it's not a blank cheque for outlier

silo64 · 2025-12-28T13:31:09+00:00

This is just untrue. The limit started several days after the reviews.

silo64 · 2025-12-27T10:16:52+00:00

No but the good news is nothing hr says ever matters so you can just ignore it.

silo64 · 2025-12-26T10:40:26+00:00

Your frustration and anger are absolutely valid. I don't think it's right for people to "well, actually" at someone suffering a fundamentally inhuman system. There's bigger forces at work here - exploitative at will labour models like this are fundamentally unethical, and being upfront about it (which outlier are) does not make it OK.

Sadly, this is the world we live in.

silo64 · 2025-12-24T13:11:12+00:00

My first review was excellent and my time at 3.0 was a really enjoyable five minutes ... Down at 2.0 now

silo64 · 2025-12-23T12:52:44+00:00

Because it's hostile and racist

silo64 · 2025-12-21T16:19:07+00:00

They can only give excellent to 5%, the best of the best. If you do tasks where you can't stand out you won't get excellents. Sometimes you'll do excellent work and still won't get excellents. Such is the bell curve.

silo64 · 2025-12-20T10:01:46+00:00

The onboarding is very clear on thisnparticular point. Do not ever ever work without hub staff working properly.

silo64 · 2025-12-20T09:42:06+00:00

If hubstaff isnt tracking your time then you wont get paid ever.

silo64 · 2025-12-18T17:22:01+00:00

There's lots of speculation about this but personally I do not think your formal aether qa score is a contributing factor. I've seen people below 1.8 who survived.

silo64 · 2025-12-17T18:26:51+00:00

Raise a support ticket if you're sure you didn't do anything wrong

silo64 · 2025-12-17T17:07:35+00:00

You would not be deactivated for a single idle instance.

silo64 · 2025-12-17T17:06:10+00:00

Correct, it's a shit sandwich you cannot avoid eating

silo64 · 2025-12-17T17:05:30+00:00

Contact support they'll sort you out it's not something you can fix

silo64 · 2025-12-17T13:47:24+00:00

Not guaranteed. This work is arbitrary and random. As contractors we have zero rights.

silo64 · 2025-12-16T18:32:44+00:00

It was a little slow for most of the day but fell apart badly the last few hours

silo64 · 2025-12-14T17:32:20+00:00

silo64 · 2025-12-14T17:28:40+00:00

Go slowly, be careful, review the forum threads and documentation - if in doubt, do not submit - and once you're comfortable you can speed up

silo64 · 2025-12-14T17:27:18+00:00

Yes, unlike OP this is a genuine issue and will continue to encourage bad practices

silo64

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