A student was sacked due to sheer incompetence

Just wondering: Should a writer be responsible for a student who bought essays from him only for the student to graduate and mess in the work place due to incompetence?

Just got a very interesting email from a customer i had way back in 2006......She was sacked due to sheer incompetence!!! wondering what to tell her))

I would tell her she should be grateful she got the job in the first place.

But at the same time her problem was that she has failed to learn anything useful from your model essays. It's probably her own fault.

its what happens when you hand in work written by others

Oh brother!

I would tell her that her professional disasters are her own doing.

It was enough that you managed to help her graduate from college.

She can't expect you to do all the work. Look, you did her papers for her and she passed her classes. That was all that was required of you.

Since she obviously did not read the lectures and even pretend to study, there was no way she was going to make it in the professional world. She got too used to spoon feeding and passing by just getting by.

Unfortunately for her, there is no way she could outsource her day to day work functions.

She was found out and dealt with accordingly by management. There is no reason for you to even respond to her because you had nothing to do with her work functions. You were only there for her academic needs. You know where you can tell her to go.

The evidence of her incompetence is not your doing.

Tell her she should have been studying even if she had someone else writing her papers for her. The incompetence that lost her the job had nothing to do with the work that you did. All you wrote were the assigned materials and projects. The job of actual studying and learning was still her responsibility. The fact that she failed to learn the job and only passed because of outside help means that she wasn't doing any studying at all in class. This is one time the writer cannot be blamed for the outcome of his work. You had nothing to do with her actual learning, development of her work skills, nor the completion of her work requirements. So why did she even bother to contact you? It doesn't make any sense. I do not doubt that she was enrolled in a diploma mill university or a party university where anybody who can afford to pay the fees will never fail and will automatically get a diploma in 4 years, even if no learning was actually completed.

Agreed. I do sometimes wonder what happens to some of my clients after graduation -- especially the ones who aren't even ESL -- who can barely compose a coherent informal email and/or who pay me to write projects that are so simple that anybody who managed to get through high school ought to be able to write in 30 minutes without any help. They represent relatively few of my clients, though. Most of my clients seem to be fairly good students who just don't have the time to write the essays they order or very good students in programs like Engineering or Nursing that really shouldn't be burdening them with these essay assignments in the first place. Many of them will never again have to write anything resembling an academic research project in their entire careers; so they should just be tested on their substantive knowledge in their education fields. For them, these writing projects serve very little purpose and have no relation to whether or not they'll be successful as engineers or nurses, etc.

I've noticed this to be relatively true even till nowadays. It's not because students are fully incapable of composing themselves. Rather it is because they have personal hindrances that prevent them from performing at the moment.

Better to keep things at bay still.

At the other end of the spectrum, I've also had a few clients totally ignore my advice about not trying to mix their writing with mine (especially when they tell me not to hold back and give them my best work) and then send me frantic "emergency" or "URGENT!!" emails begging for my help after suffering the very predictable consequences about which I tried to warn them. It baffles me when they ignore my advice to let me write down to their level after I've seen their writing and tried to share my concerns and the benefit of having done this for a living for almost 20 years.

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This reminds me of when I had client before who revised my writing for the purpose that he thought he knew better. A week later, he came complaining because he did not receive his desirable grade. I feel as though clients should have a more realistic set of expectations when they are dealing with writers. Writers are able to provide not only the expertise but even writing samples for clients to decide thoroughly if they are planning to trust that individual with their grades. At the end of the day, there are factors outside of the working space of the writer that can affect the grading process of the paper itself. Having to blame the writer, especially when they've touched the paper as well, is just seemingly obscure and should not be tolerated.

I find it unbelievable that a mediocre student, who only passed and graduated because he paid his way through college via a ghost writer, would actually blame the writer for the incompetence she showed on the job. That's the problem with students who think money can buy their way through anything, real-life proves to be a rude awakening. This woman, bought college degree and all, is probably not even qualified to flip burgers at the local diner. She never bothered to read the books while someone else did the heavy lifting for her in college, it is all her fault. She can't lay blame for her inability to perform a job she supposedly spent time in college "training" for.

For someone who actually blames the writer she used in college for her getting fired from her job after college for incompetence, there's never going to be any kind of "awakening" later in life about anything. She's just going to go through her entire life blaming others for every choice that she makes and for every consequence of her own failings.