Complaint Review: Guardian Liberty Voice

This company does not compensate writers correctly. The writers at this company have been misclassified as freelancers, but actually, they should be classified as employees and as such, are entitled to fair compensation for the many hours of work they put in. Writers and editors are forced to work extremely long hours for no set salary. There is an element of multi level marketing to the company, too, in that it encourages writers to recruit other writers and from those other writers the person who recruited makes a commission off the writer's compensation. This model is not sustainable because it makes it too hard for writers to make any money. Only the people at the top are making money as in a classic pyramid scheme. No matter what line the company hands out, this is a pyramid scheme because technically, the writers are "paying up" to their recruiter. However, many of the so called team leaders don't even make any money either because the vast majority of writers leave. The owner then back fills the void left by the departed writers with a slew of new, desperate writers, many of whom barely even speak English and have no writing skills. The owner ensures his own financial windfall in this way due to the huge volume of stories being written. The ads bring in the money and he is basically getting hundreds of free pieces of content every day. Anyone with that volume of content pieces can make money off of ads, but not many people have the same Joel Osteen type of money swindling technique as the owner of this company does. Stay far, far away.