I haven't/don't yet do a whole lot of these. I've actually only done the ones through MF.
Although about a year or so ago, I signed up online to do a few with Maritz, to see how they went. I never heard back from them. Or so I thought... sometime later I found the voice mail messages. But, things had sort of quickly gone to hell personally... and it ended up that it got later & later post-messages, so I just never responded. And I haven't applied for any since... thinking I may have screwed myself with that course of action.
But I suppose it would never hurt to *try* applying again. And then remember to check my phone. The worse that could happen was they didn't assign me any. And if I *don't* apply, that's basically the same result, right?
ANYWAY... I was out doing one of the MF ones today. Like I said, I don't do a whole lot of these, only ones that are bonused, or where the station is so small & well-kept it goes really quickly. On past audits, I've set my clipboard on one of the little newspaper machines, or something like that with a flat top near the building, while I walk out far enough for some of the photos.
But today I set the clipboard on the hood of my car. And when I came back from doing the walk-around to get the photos from the proper distance... a bird had shat upon my clipboard & survey form.
Well. I'd never had *that* inconvenience before. >:-(
Thankfully I'd already filled out that page, so just turned it over. Which, of course, got bird $h!t all over the back of another sheet, but it was the LOA I'd already had filled out & photographed. I made all of my little checkmarks *very* carefully, trying not to even touch the pages. Also, thankfully, the station was almost completely compliant. So I didn't have to remember much to fill out the report online.
Because, I left the pages on my front porch. I only had to go out to refer to them, using a plastic baggie glove, to refresh my memory on start/end times and length-of-transaction time. Now I need to get my plastic baggie glove and throw them out!
Even though I didn't actually *touch* it, and even with the page turned over, I only very carefully handled the whole thing (thinking about soak-through), I still felt *so* icky & applied hand sanitizer three times. And then when I got to my next stop, washed my hands.
I would've used the restroom at the location, but at that point there was someone in it. Who didn't come out the whole rest of the time I was there. And whom you could smell about 10 feet from the restroom door. So... I decided hand sanitizer was good enough, after carefully rationalizing that I never *really* got any on me (although, despite my efforts, I *did* feel slight dampness through the pages once).
Sheesh. At least this one was bonused. Not a *huge* bonus, but OK.
Although about a year or so ago, I signed up online to do a few with Maritz, to see how they went. I never heard back from them. Or so I thought... sometime later I found the voice mail messages. But, things had sort of quickly gone to hell personally... and it ended up that it got later & later post-messages, so I just never responded. And I haven't applied for any since... thinking I may have screwed myself with that course of action.
But I suppose it would never hurt to *try* applying again. And then remember to check my phone. The worse that could happen was they didn't assign me any. And if I *don't* apply, that's basically the same result, right?
ANYWAY... I was out doing one of the MF ones today. Like I said, I don't do a whole lot of these, only ones that are bonused, or where the station is so small & well-kept it goes really quickly. On past audits, I've set my clipboard on one of the little newspaper machines, or something like that with a flat top near the building, while I walk out far enough for some of the photos.
But today I set the clipboard on the hood of my car. And when I came back from doing the walk-around to get the photos from the proper distance... a bird had shat upon my clipboard & survey form.
Well. I'd never had *that* inconvenience before. >:-(
Thankfully I'd already filled out that page, so just turned it over. Which, of course, got bird $h!t all over the back of another sheet, but it was the LOA I'd already had filled out & photographed. I made all of my little checkmarks *very* carefully, trying not to even touch the pages. Also, thankfully, the station was almost completely compliant. So I didn't have to remember much to fill out the report online.
Because, I left the pages on my front porch. I only had to go out to refer to them, using a plastic baggie glove, to refresh my memory on start/end times and length-of-transaction time. Now I need to get my plastic baggie glove and throw them out!
Even though I didn't actually *touch* it, and even with the page turned over, I only very carefully handled the whole thing (thinking about soak-through), I still felt *so* icky & applied hand sanitizer three times. And then when I got to my next stop, washed my hands.
I would've used the restroom at the location, but at that point there was someone in it. Who didn't come out the whole rest of the time I was there. And whom you could smell about 10 feet from the restroom door. So... I decided hand sanitizer was good enough, after carefully rationalizing that I never *really* got any on me (although, despite my efforts, I *did* feel slight dampness through the pages once).
Sheesh. At least this one was bonused. Not a *huge* bonus, but OK.
Practitioner of the Nerdly Arts.
