Asked just as I pull the trigger on a one-and-done shop:

How hard could this be? (phone mortgage shop, which required a handwritten report + on-line report)

Why hasn’t anyone snatched up this shop? (6-hour exit interview assignment)

Why are they paying so much for such an easy audit? (repo lot insurance verification)

How long could this possibly take? (grocery store out-of-stock audit)


Asked after the aforementioned shops are completed:

How could I be so stupid?

Anybody else?
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/22/2014 03:26PM by stilllearning.

Now where did I put that receipt?
I've been standing here looking lost for 10 minutes; why won't anyone help me?
Does the comma go inside or outside the quotation marks?
Why do I do this again?

Jaymo Wrote:
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> Now where did I put that receipt?

Never again will I put in the burger bag, hard to scan through all of the grease, messes up the scanner something awful.

> I've been standing here looking lost for 10 minutes; why won't anyone help me?

If you have paranoid delusions you feel like your shirt has Mystery Shopper printed in 10 inch letters on the back.

> Does the comma go inside or outside the quotation marks?

Should only get dinged once, maybe twice before you figure that out: But as they say third times a charm. Or maybe it's the stupid auto correct on your phone.

> Why do I do this again?

My wife hasn't figured it out either. Some days she thinks I'm a sadist doing these shops or other days she thinks I have a split personality and one is a Maschoist and the other a Sadist. At times I think its the later.

Here's a doozy--->"How come the scheduler has not gotten back to me, it has been a week, and the shop is due in two days?

Still,

Do you mean that slight "oh no" flash thought that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck just as you're pulling that trigger, or the one that sets in like impending doom when things start to fall apart? Here we go!

1) my brother told me not to pull this trigger and I did it anyway. It was a mortgage re-fi shop where the target accused me of loan fraud and threatened to call the district attorney's office because the "fool proof" fake documents were not when the target checked the county hall of records.

2) anytime Marketforce pays $12 and above for a "retail" assignment before bonuses.

3) local cell phone shops that give only an address and turn out to be located at swap meets (anytime) or warehouse stores during the holidays.

4) when Intellishop broadcasts describe assignments using the words "just", "easy", "simple" or "straightforward".

In retrospect, I would gather more information in the beginning, even if I had to wait for answers and possibly have to lose that precious/lemon assignment.

Oh. My. God! If we ever have a Nightmare Shop contest, my money is on you to win with that mortgage shop.

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PS
Has your brother stopped saying, "Haha, I told ya so!"?

In my rush to get into and out of any mall, my famous last question is usually, "Where the h... did I park my car?"

KathyC, I think my face looked like this while I was reading your post.
I'd love to read more details about that first shop you listed. How did it turn out at the end?

MsJudi, that's me, every time, as I search for my silver car in the sea of silver cars.

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sojo917 Wrote:
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> Here's a doozy--->"How come the scheduler has not
> gotten back to me, it has been a week, and the
> shop is due in two days?


Better yet, I applied for the job last week, the first day to do the shop was yesterday and the shops still have not been assigned on the website!

LJ Wrote:
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> KathyC, I think my face looked like this
> while I was reading your post.
> I'd love to read more details about that first
> shop you listed. How did it turn out at the end?

It was an investigation of a mortgage lender in the midst of the mortgage industry collapse. I portrayed a borrower interested in a re-fi on my home. I was to be a single woman with high income and loads of unpaid credit card debit. The marketing company sent to me extremely realistic looking false paystubs, W-2's, previous year's tax returns and a property tax bill.......all with my fake name on them. This information was also planted onto the mortgage lender's main computer so that when they accessed it, the fake information would pop up when they entered my fake social security number. I was assured that nothing could go wrong and that a third party agency in New York would be there to advise me 24/7. My job was to go through the re-fi process and document every step and every conversation. The process took about three weeks and we were nearing the end of it the day before Christmas. I was to have 12 persons for Christmas the next day, so I was anxious to put an end to what I deemed as as long process.

December 24th, the lender called me and said that he needed to put the District Manager on speaker phone. They explained that they pulled my property address via the hall of county records. They said that the house was not owned by me and was jointly owned by a couple (my real name and my husband's name) and that they planned to call the District attorney's Office and file a Loan Fraud complaint. I told them that someone was at the door and had to go. I called the third party agency and a recording said that blizzard conditions prohibited contact. I called my brother (the attorney who told me to stay away from this assignment in the first place) and he said to abort with the lender and the marketing company immediately. The lending company was fine with it, the marketing company was wondering if I would please have just one more conversation with the lender. I refused and was paid the entire fee.

Stilllearning, to answer you question, my brother never gloated on this assignment per se. However, and at evey opportunity, he reminds me that marketing companies will not defend me when I agree to place myself in precarious/legally untested situations.