Don't pay on time, very dishonest - Editor HARRISCO Employee Review

1.0
Mar 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible schedule, interesting papers to edit.

Cons

They don't pay on time. I worked for this company for about a year. At first, everything was great, but then my monthly payment would arrive later and later each month. Eventually, they owed me around $10,000 of overdue payments for around 4-5 months of work. They made every excuse under the sun for the late payments and tried to trick me into doing more work for them by claiming to have sent payments that never arrived. This deception included sending pictures of old payslips to try to fool me into thinking they'd sent the overdue payment via international bank transfer. These promises of "we have just sent your payment" never resulted in money arriving in my account. To get my money, I had to threaten to contact every single Harrisco client (contact details are on the papers they send out for editing) and let them know about this company's policy of not paying contractors. When I did this, the lies suddenly stopped and I received the overdue payment the next day. Harrisco then cut contact with me. The other major cons are: 1. They piled far more work onto me than I'd told them I could take on. 2. They're very difficult to communicate with and very dishonest.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
Dec 28, 2020
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Pros

I’ve been editing for Harrisco as a U.S. based editor for almost four years (with one year off). Early in that time there were certainly some issues with on-time payment for completed assignments – which was the reason for me taking a break. The company CEO continued to communicate periodically by email, promising all backpays would be completed and every month or so, deposits were made to my account in a good faith effort to ‘square the ledger’. The apparently genuine desire to fulfil its obligations, convinced me to resume taking assignments – in particular with a new payment system that didn’t require waiting until the end of the month. Payment now made by Paypal for each individual assignment. Since I re-started (about 18 months ago), all payments have been made strictly on time and furthermore ALL of the backpay was paid. I have heard the company had some difficulties, but that seems to have been resolved. My experience over the last year and a half has been extremely positive and all of my interactions with the company have convinced me, they are highly professional and reputable. Support staff in my case have been great – clear communication with them helps enormously, in terms of issues with how much work you can handle and deadlines. I am a part timer and only have limited number of hours to devote – and they have respected that.

Cons

None in my situation. As others have noted it would be good to have a higher payment rate.

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