Hold Up There
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Ok, on some of my other blogs, I do paid blog posts. Obviously I don’t do them on this one, my archives are short enough to tell you that. But, I do them on Gothic Peach, my Vox, and possibly, if it’s accepted, on Basically Geeky. Here’s my problem. I logged into Smorty the other day and saw an available post. It stated it was available for the VOX blog. I thought I might have already done the post once, but you know what? It was LISTED AS AVAILABLE FOR THAT BLOG. So I took it. Then I get a decline notice saying that because I’d already done that post on that blog, I couldn’t take it again. THEN I get a notice from Smorty saying it was THEIR MISTAKE and that THEIR SOFTWARE THAT MANAGES THE OPPORTUNITIES had been showing people opps that weren’t actually available to them.
I can understand an advertiser saying no to a duplicate post. However, Smorty should still be responsible for paying the people WHO DID THE WORK TO CREATE THE POSTS out of their own pockets. It is NOT fair to me to have done the post and then to be told that 1) it’s declined and 2) that it was SMORTY’S fault, but I still won’t get paid for it even though I took the opp in good faith because SMORTY said I was eligible. Now I’m wondering what kind of company I’m working with. I can understand when my job overpays me and then takes the money back. But I can’t understand when my job doesn’t pay me for the work I did because my job made a mistake and had me do something I wasn’t supposed to. That doesn’t mean I didn’t do the work and shouldn’t get paid for it. If SMORTY hadn’t made the mistake, I wouldn’t have taken the opp in the first place. So frankly, I believe I may well be finished with Smorty after this.
