Recently, Team Double-Click has become more of an employer relationship rather than an independent contractor relationship. They treat their VAs with disrespect and bully tactics. They require daily reporting of availability and of time keeping. If you do not reply to their daily availability by 10 am Central Time, they call and leave a horrible message and threaten to terminate you. If one has notified the client directly that they are out of the office, wouldn't that be acceptable? Why does Team Double-Click need to have a person in a time zone not convenient to Central report by 10 am? Hawaii, Alaska or West Coast would have a hard time meeting that deadline. If you do not report your time daily, they send a note to you that you will no longer receive clients unless you report daily. Again, they are crossing the line of an independent contractor. Team Double-Click requires control and knowledge of your whereabouts. If you are eligbile for clients and are not sitting by the phone or computer when contacted about a potential client, three strikes and you are no longer eligbile. So if you leave your office and don't tell them, then you are in trouble and will get a call from them.
The numbers they tell you about how many contractors they help or have is bogus. They are now bragging they have over 40,000. The real number is 170 to 200 at a given time. The others are those who registered, past VAs terminated, out of country... You get the drift.
The contractors that are working for them for a long time are still working for the same amount they were hired years ago for. They raise the rates to the customers, but the VA is lucky to see a nickel. If a client of theirs is smart, they would buy out the VA and pay them directly. The client saves money and the VA makes more money, with both having less paperwork.
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