Here it is:
Hi Travis,
Thanks for letting me know, but could you be a little more specific? Did some Australian guy who looks like the rapper from Linkin Park report me? If so, that guy asked me a generic question, and when I pointed that out, he accused me of having a “shitty” attitude a few minutes later, so I told him to fuck off, and I blocked him for my peace of mind, simply because he didn’t deserve my flawless services, and I know that worshiping customers because they’re “always right” is the policy of every business out there, knowing that it’s unfair (we humans are more complex than that), but that’s what really happened, and when I said “paranoid little bitch”, I was hypothetically talking about people who’d rather treat you like a subhuman than take a leap of faith, hire you, and be blown away minutes or hours later. This is how I express myself, and 99.99% of my customers have no problem with that; on the contrary, they actually prefer real freelancers who truly understand what they really want to accomplish, and who have a real personality to lifeless bloodless robots with horrible English. When people (like religious ones) point out that they prefer if I don’t curse, I automatically show — their definition of — respect, but that rarely happens, and I never react in an unfair way unless it was necessary to show others that I don’t take shit from anyone, and you guys should protect us freelancers, too, since we make you just as much money, and I swear I did not threaten the guy or harass him in any way. He didn’t like that my English was flawless even though I’m not a native speaker, that’s what probably pushed him to call me a “know-it-all” when I said to him, “If you’re asking me if I have any diplomas, then sorry to disappoint you, because I don’t.” Harassment/threatening would be like, “Did you just call me an illiterate, you fucking piece of shit? Fuck you, and I know where you live, so you better watch your back!” It’s not harassment to be a little snarky, and sassy when it’s clear that many customers have had multiple bad experiences with different freelancers who can barely speak English, so when they see a Moroccan guy named Ahmed, they’re like, “Here we go again… wait, what? Is this guy using some superior futuristic Google Translate that nobody knows about? How’s he this good at English?” Before you assume I’m acting like Kanye West, that’s called a joke, but I’m sure you know what I’m talking about, and denying it will just prove that cancel culture is rampant, and that being a conversationalist is somehow deemed an abomination these days for whatever reason.
Anyway, I keep my computer on 24/7, and when I woke up, I found out that Upwork — the Windows app — was hogging pretty much the entire system memory, and when I tried to terminate its process via Task Manager, the latter hanged, too. The craziest part is that before I went to bed, I made sure to quit Upwork (no pun intended, ironically), especially that I didn’t have that “conserve CPU usage and memory” option enabled via settings, knowing that the messages app is already super slow with that option disabled, and GPU acceleration enabled, and yet it takes forever to edit a single message — other processes had nothing to do with that since I can watch YT videos in 4K just fine, and open dozens of tabs simultaneously without noticing anything out of the ordinary. I know this may seem unrelated, but this has never happened to me before, and it’s weird how this caused my crypto mining app to crash (it’s not working in an aggressive way, mind you), so are you telling me that it’s a coincidence that for the first time ever, Upwork app messed up my entire system that’s been up, and running perfectly fine for 4 months straight on the same day you decided to suspend me for being myself? I’m no kook, but you must admit this is one hell of a coincidence!
Finally, if you think that I should talk less, and be “less human, and more robot” with customers in order to avoid getting suspended, just say it without resorting to political correctness, and I’ll appreciate your honesty. I promise I won’t resort to innuendo to avoid detection or anything like that, and before you tell me to read terms and conditions as your seemingly condescending way of reading me my rights like we’re in a true crime movie, you should know that I’m one of the very few people who actually read terms of service — at least from time to time — because I don’t want to get unfairly suspended for merely speaking my mind or step on any kind of toes for that matter. I’ll know you really want to help me when you take the time to read this, and decide to give me another chance, because in my world, being treated unfairly for being honest makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Every institution tried to take my honesty away from me over the years, and they all failed miserably, believe it or not. I wouldn’t mind understanding what I did wrong exactly, but in a non-generic way. Otherwise, it’s not helpful at all. Coincidentally, referring to that customer’s generic question about my experience as “lazy” is what I think triggered him, but remember, I only said that after he was kind of like, “It’s a simple question, and you don’t have to make a big deal out of it.” Thing is, just because I can express myself freely does not mean that I’m making a big deal out of things. Normally, any customer with a modicum of common sense would first check the positive reviews, and then ask a few specific questions instead of generic ones. This is similar to what happened to Seinfeld with that interviewer who asked him a very generic question, trying — unintentionally or otherwise — to make him look like an idiot. At the end of the day, whatever you decide, I’m cool with it, seriously, because it’s not the end of the world, and it’s not like I’m making any significant amount of money from this platform, although spending almost 30 dollars on connects in less than a week should prove that I actually care, but, “Let the chips fall where they may”, I guess. 🤷🏻♂️
Best regards,
Ahmed Anssaien
IT Expert