Cheaters Gotta Cheat

Someone just asked me to cheat on a tutoring platform. I’ve reported them.

Yep, cheaters gotta cheat. Don’t you know? Here’s what happened. Someone posted a job offer for tutoring. I responded to the offer. A few hours later, I got a message that said:

• I’d just get the problems, and I’d just have to give the answers.
• There’s a 2-hour limit.
• There are 25 problems.
• A time at which we’d do this deed.

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How is this tutoring? This is not teaching someone how to solve math problems. This is asking me to answer exam questions for some kid. This is not what I do. I’m not a cheater! Note that this request was made in contravention of the stated academic honesty policy of the platform. The gall!

I guess they looked at my profile, saw that I was green on this platform, and decided that I’d easily play into their games. Haha. As if. I may be green on the platform, but I’m not green at life. I did have a teaching stint in a college some years back, and I reported two cheaters in my classes then. I can do it again.

I really don’t see what’s in it for me. If I were to accept this charade, I’d be getting two hours of pay, and maybe some repeat business, in two hour chunks or so. However, when I teach someone how to solve problems, I do spend more than two hours per exam with them. So, right off the bat, this is a shitty proposition.

In addition, and more importantly, if someone has no qualms asking a tutor to cheat in this way, they’ve proved themselves to be a dirtbag. Do I want to do business with dirtbags? Nope. Getting them to pay for my services might be hard. They might also leave me a shitty review for reasons that have nothing to do with tutoring. In my experience, dirtbags are unstable.

Finally, taking timed tests is not what I want to do with my time. Yes, I can do it, no, I do not want to do it.

I reported them to the tutoring platform. The platform responded that they are taking care of it.