The Only Fitting Punishment for an Essay Company Writer

Nearly all of the infractions that writers get punished for by essay companies are enough to warrant outright termination of employment.

The decision to keep writers on the employment roster after particular offences speaks to poor judgment and lack of professionalism in the part of the companies.

A writer who plagiarizes (especially above a certain percentage) is not one to be trusted with future projects. It shouldn't matter how many flawless projects this writer has completed in the past. The issue that caused this one instance of plagiarism is bound to arise again in the future. It is shocking to learn the methods many sites use to deal with this matter though. There's one 'big' essay writing company (running several sites) that officially provides writers with a 'plagiarism report' for each submitted document, then offers suggestions on how to improve the document before resubmission. The system is actually officially designed to anticipate and accommodate plagiarism. That is an unfortunate state of affairs.

The same applies to the case where a writer submits a paper whose content is somehow irrelevant or unfitting. Failure to sufficiently understand and accurately interpret instructions/requirements is a rookie mistake which no paying customer should be exposed to, especially considering that actual academic credentials could be impacted. I understand that professional academic writing does not come naturally to all, and some may require training and time to learn. But this should not be at the potential expense of a paying customer.

What might be hard to sell is the notion that even a writer who submits work late should be fired. As a seasoned professional writer, I know there are some instances where unforeseen circumstances might cause delays. However, the impact of most of these instances can be neutralized by professional risk management on the part of the writer who is getting paid. This risk management should be part of the writer's job.

Aspiring independent writers can hone their skills and learn the trade while simultaneously taking on projects. A company, however, should only offer clients services of thoroughly vetted and fully qualified experts. Like I had earlier mentioned, any company that habitually tries to rehabilitate offending writers and continuously accommodates transgressions is not acting in the best interests of its clients. To the contrary, it is exposing them to considerable risks.

My loose familiarity with the IDs of some of the higher-profile company writers and with how a few of them were let go by their companies suggested to me that there were two most common general patterns: (1) New writers who started racking up customer complaints about plagiarism and/or other basic problems with their work. Usually, the negative comments, complaints, and requests not to receive work from a bad new writer piled up fast and they were let go fairly quickly. (2) Established writers whose work had previously always been good enough to establish solid reputations going back several years, but who were losing focus, typically to some degree of self-imposed burnout. They start taking liberties in the form of various elements of plagiarism and purposely take assignments of the same project many different times so that they can basically rewrite them from memory or skip any research time by reusing all of the same references they relied upon the last 4 times they covered Enron or Deepwater Horizon or Uber or the last dozen times they "analyzed" the same work, such as The Yellow Wallpaper or Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. When they got fired, it was usually after being given several chances to promise to deliver only the quality of the work they'd always delivered previously and after relapsing several times into patterns of bad projects, late delivery, and non-delivery of projects.

The fact that we have to do the same assignments over and over is one of the very few negative aspects of this work, in addition to night work (for me anyway), and hectic living arrangements without a clear schedule (due to constantly being swamped by emails and having to write whenever there is work to be done).

Writing 50, 60, or more papers on Shakespeare can get old rather fast, so it's only natural to cut some corners. However, if what you say is true, these writers were let go completely legitimately. I have to add that cutting corners - such as writing about a specific passage from memory because you did the exact same paper two days ago - is not the same as simply copying the passage from another paper. If done properly, it can save time, but there must be a measure to everything, as we are paid to provide original, well researched, and coherent arguments in all the papers we write.

I find that literature I read stays with me, especially in those fields I find the most interesting, so it's not a problem remembering what a specific author wrote about it, even several months later. However, I do not see any merit in trying to copy-paste your work, since it always comes back to bite you in the as*, eventually.

Exactly... a measure to everything. In commonly requested papers such as Martin Luther, etc. there's often nothing really "new" to contribute, but a little research will reveal some more recent criticism or coverage of the topic that can often be used to supplement and add to the material to make it more timely versus the same old review of the same old works. A decent academic writer can draw from memory AND apply current research to bring a fresh perspective to an old, overused subject.

I do not normally fire writers for submitting late work. That is the reason why I change the deadline the client submits from the actual date to a day earlier. I don't want to fine them and I don't want to punish them. A 24 hour allowance should more than suffice for writers who might, once in a while, submit a paper late. However, if a paper is not submitted on time without any word or excuse from the assigned writer, I feel that an appropriate penalty should be applied. An even bigger penalty, is applied when the client does not answer client support calls.

However, I do not penalize them in the form of earning strikes. Instead, I penalize them by demoting their ability to take orders, or reducing their usual CPP until their punishment is over. There have been times when I have had to ground writers for up to 3 months, for being uncooperative and regularly submitting late essays. Grounding means they have the ability to see the server, but not take the orders. Seeing all that income slipping through their fingers tends to be enough to make them shape up when it comes to meeting deadlines.

The problem is that the writers are not always at fault. Most of the time, it is the company, through their QAD that comes up with bogus accusations of plagiarism, lateness, and other penalty warranting errors. The system is rigged against the writer in those companies. Notice that they do not fire the writers regardless of the number of "errors" and "penalties" he produces. The company needs the writer to fill a seat and keep the con running. They know that they can keep assigning work to certain bad writers, which will result in the company meeting their financial quota every month. So no, I do not agree that penalizing writer's is the solution to anything. Nor does it help train the writer. Instead, a company should be working with a writer to help him keep his deadline and the QAD should be offering writer seminars and writing tools that can help the writer improve his craft. Penalties and firing are not always the best option. Manpower training usually works better.