I know we have probably ALL been here...still aggrivates me

I applied for a sandwich shop,,,not great pay, but I knew that today I would be right there and a sub would have hit the spot....signed up 3 days ago...nothing...deadline is in a few days anyhow....after waiting three days I figured...piss on them...if they couldn't "pick" me by then I don't want them either...went in and cancelled my request....deep down I hope they get stuck with it.

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Condolences , I hate when that happens. Even worse is when you forget to cancel your app and they assign it at the 11th hour.

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> Condolences , I hate when that happens. Even
> worse is when you forget to cancel your app and
> they assign it at the 11th hour.

that is exactly why I did it late yesterday, I have no plans to accommodate them when they coulnd't me.

I hate when that happens. You have a day all planned out and you think "Now if I get that shop it will just work out perfectly." Then you wait and wait and wait...Like AM said I have forgotten to cancel the app and been assigned the shop after I've already done the route...

This happens all the time with me, and it's annoying. I had requested a bank shop 4 days prior. It was in a rural area that I was going to travel through. The msc always has trouble getting this location shopped. I didn't delete the application, and the date requested passed. Two days after that, the msc decides to go ahead and assign it to me! I called them and told them I had requested a specific date, and not the date they tried to assign to me.

Just this week I had to delete 3 applications with Kerns because they didn't respond.

Why don't more msc let us self-assign?

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I am in the same boat. I applied on the 4th for a shop on the 9th. 9th came and went, woke up this morning and it was assigned to me for the 14th.

Five days waiting on a run of the mill retail shop is ridiculous.

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Plan the work. Work the plan.

A smart simple solution would be if more msc's would allow self scheduling for tenured, proven shoppers with a rejection notice given if you already shopped the same location within x amount of days. Gamefilm and Sleuth have this sensible system in place.

And yes, it is quite irritating to be assigned a shop at the very last minute after you applied when it was first posted.

What takes them so damn long to decide anyway??????????

Arch, they are waiting for "Not-Me."

As for Gamefilm, the dessert shop here is no longer allowing self-assign. I had it for fourteen months straight, I think they want a report from someone other than me, LOL.

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Plan the work. Work the plan.

I applied to an email that stated a shop needed to be done with bonus. It was high priority. Well? I applied for it and after two days, canceled the application. I couldn't wait that long. Sorry.

KSS seems to be the worst. I've cancelled more applications after 3 days of waiting with them than anyone else because they never responded. I've learned to go to the source if possible -- half the time the job on the KSS site is not listed on the source MSC's board because it was done long ago and KSS's job board is out of date.

Gotta wonder about all the glowing praise on the "best scheduler" thread for all these KSS schedulers who never bother to respond to a shop request. Maybe it's a regional thing and I'm in the wrong region.

Actually I'm trying to remember if I've ever had to cancel an app for anyone *but* KSS because they didn't get back to me in time for me to put the shop into my route. Can't think of any. Pretty much everyone else responds within 24 hours, except maybe on weekends and I don't shop weekends. I think there was once with HDE but I was trying to get a bonus; I hadn't actually requested the job yet.

Time to build a bigger bridge.

I hate that!!

And dspeakes - I agree. There were a long list of shops in my area floating around last week. All places I was going to be and nothing. They had a shopper willing to do nearly the entire city on the due date but never got back to me until the next day. I was told that I would be assigned some this week but all the shops are off the board now. I guess the client decided not to go forward. For shame, there was money to be made for everyone involved...

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Yep, probably all of us have experienced that at one time or another. It's nice when it works out, and very annoying when it does not.

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