I received a 9. Why?
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I really don't care about the grades. I just think sometimes the editor is having a bad day. Just remember to enjoy your work and its all about the "MONEY." 
I finally quit the mystery shopping side of the business and now I just do audits. I really enjoy the field audits. Better pay and less of the criticism. I have learned a lot doing these audits and have met a lot of great people this way. The pay for this type of audit is between $15 and $25. Hey I have even learned how to draw property sketches. Girls can learn how to measure properly! It took me some time and hard work, but it has paid off for me. I earn anywhere from $50 to $70 doing this type of project. So go with what is best for you and remember "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff."
I finally quit the mystery shopping side of the business and now I just do audits. I really enjoy the field audits. Better pay and less of the criticism. I have learned a lot doing these audits and have met a lot of great people this way. The pay for this type of audit is between $15 and $25. Hey I have even learned how to draw property sketches. Girls can learn how to measure properly! It took me some time and hard work, but it has paid off for me. I earn anywhere from $50 to $70 doing this type of project. So go with what is best for you and remember "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff."
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Usually, when I get a 9, it is because my report is a couple of hours late. 26 hours instead of 24 hours. Five days later, the editor reads it. Whatever. I could care less.
I have clients that require reports to be in and edited within a specific amount of time. They are edited immediately and finalized within 72 hours. I am never late on those.
Oh, Marketforce... not late on those.
I have clients that require reports to be in and edited within a specific amount of time. They are edited immediately and finalized within 72 hours. I am never late on those.
Oh, Marketforce... not late on those.
If the report is honest, objective, up to or exceeding company standards,timely and your best work that is a 10. Trippin' on this stuff is not worth it. Get paid and move on to the next opportunity!
some companies want you to write out numbers like "ten" others want you to use numerals like "10" and if you do it the wrong way....it lowers the score...
both companies insist that their way is the best and most professional....
both companies insist that their way is the best and most professional....
I am going to give this thread an 8. Whoops, I mean an eight. Spellcheck wants to know if I actually mean an ate or did I mean argument or did I mean guilty? My other spellcheck choice is ever. I do not think spellcheck knows how to spell at all. I am not going to explain my 8 but I did read the entire thread.
I get it. Makes me crazy if I don't end up with perfect scores. I will admit I refuse to take a shop which only requires I walk across the street, because I can't get past the editor.
When I contacted the editor to find out what was wrong. The answer given wasn't correct. I always save copies of my reports. I stupidly tried to fight it and the next month I received the lowest score ever for any of my reports. I decided I didn't need the $7.
I strive to do my best for all my shops. If I get less than perfect for scores, I try to shake it off. I do reread my reports to try to figure out what I did wrong.
The other day I was lucky enough to be sitting next to a retired English teacher. I offered up a sample. She pointed out all the grammatical errors I've always made. Then she gave me some insight how to quit repeating the same mistakes.
She also admitted, sometimes it comes down to your writing style. Written English is governed by grammar but it's also subjective. When I asked how to get past the subjective? Her answer was get transferred to a different professor.
My advice is shake it off. 9 is a great score.
When I contacted the editor to find out what was wrong. The answer given wasn't correct. I always save copies of my reports. I stupidly tried to fight it and the next month I received the lowest score ever for any of my reports. I decided I didn't need the $7.
I strive to do my best for all my shops. If I get less than perfect for scores, I try to shake it off. I do reread my reports to try to figure out what I did wrong.
The other day I was lucky enough to be sitting next to a retired English teacher. I offered up a sample. She pointed out all the grammatical errors I've always made. Then she gave me some insight how to quit repeating the same mistakes.
She also admitted, sometimes it comes down to your writing style. Written English is governed by grammar but it's also subjective. When I asked how to get past the subjective? Her answer was get transferred to a different professor.
My advice is shake it off. 9 is a great score.
Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning; the devil shudders...And yells OH #%*+! SHE'S AWAKE!
I was really enjoying the hissy-fit over the scores, but let me get serious by saying don't get serious over an objective observation that really doesn't mean diddly-squat. Take the money and run...You want annoying? Have your report rejected because you "didn't detail from beginning to end" what was said during the RECORDED PHONE CALL!!!!!!
I totally agree in wanting to know why you got a 9. I'm the same way. I take pride in my work and want to know what mistakes I've made so I can improve. It's not about praise, it's about improvement.
@MA Smith wrote:
My advice is shake it off. 9 is a great score.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Your report was not a beauty to the editor.
It wasn't an "ugly" or you would have gotten a lower score.
It could be your subconscious or unconscious mind was on auto pilot and said "money does not have the same value so I will crank out a lower value 9 instead of a 10 report".
Take that editor. You get what you pay for!
I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore.
Ill be happy to see those nice young men in there clean white coats and they are coming to take me away..Ha Ha!
@MA Smith wrote:
Makes me crazy if I don't end up with perfect scores.
My advice is shake it off. 9 is a great score.
Lay down on the couch and let me help you.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Your report was not a beauty to the editor.
It wasn't an "ugly" or you would have gotten a lower score.
It could be your subconscious or unconscious mind was on auto pilot and said "money does not have the same value so I will crank out a lower value 9 instead of a 10 report".
Take that editor. You get what you pay for!
I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore.
Ill be happy to see those nice young men in there clean white coats and they are coming to take me away..Ha Ha!
@Piled Hip Deep, PHD wrote:
@MA Smith wrote:
Makes me crazy if I don't end up with perfect scores.
My advice is shake it off. 9 is a great score.
Lay down on the couch and let me help you.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Your report was not a beauty to the editor.
It wasn't an "ugly" or you would have gotten a lower score.
It could be your subconscious or unconscious mind was on auto pilot and said "money does not have the same value so I will crank out a lower value 9 instead of a 10 report".
Take that editor. You get what you pay for!
I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore.
Ill be happy to see those nice young men in there clean white coats and they are coming to take me away..Ha Ha!
You're funny! But I might admit, that couch isn't the worst idea I've ever heard.
Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning; the devil shudders...And yells OH #%*+! SHE'S AWAKE!
@MelNel525 wrote:
Why didn't I get a ten? I would really love some feedback so I could improve for my next shop. I'm one of those crazy people that takes anything less than an A+ as an insult. It's how God made me. Why don't editors give constructive feedback? Wouldn't it be in both of our best interests?
Exactly!!! How do they expect us to improve (for them too) if we don't know what we did wrong? I really hope some scheduler willsee this & do something about it.
MelNel525,
I used to be one of those people who always wanted a perfect score until I had a boss who was abusive and would not be pleased with my work no matter what. She would tell me she was pleased with the work, and then she would tell all of my co-workers that I was doing an awful job. She did the same thing to all of the workers, so I wasn't alone in this.
I don't know anything about the editor who gave you a 9, but it could be that some editors never give a 10. The boss I am writing about above never gave anything above a 6 on performance appraisals to anybody because she believed that there was no one would could do above a 6 at the job. It didn't matter how many times I asked for feedback, constructive or otherwise, a 6 was as high as she was willing to give ever.
Why did you get a 9? Only the editor knows, and it may have more to do with him or her than with your report.
I used to be one of those people who always wanted a perfect score until I had a boss who was abusive and would not be pleased with my work no matter what. She would tell me she was pleased with the work, and then she would tell all of my co-workers that I was doing an awful job. She did the same thing to all of the workers, so I wasn't alone in this.
I don't know anything about the editor who gave you a 9, but it could be that some editors never give a 10. The boss I am writing about above never gave anything above a 6 on performance appraisals to anybody because she believed that there was no one would could do above a 6 at the job. It didn't matter how many times I asked for feedback, constructive or otherwise, a 6 was as high as she was willing to give ever.
Why did you get a 9? Only the editor knows, and it may have more to do with him or her than with your report.
@Mrstwm wrote:
I totally agree in wanting to know why you got a 9. I'm the same way. I take pride in my work and want to know what mistakes I've made so I can improve. It's not about praise, it's about improvement.
Most MSing editors get paid diddly squat and get paid per editing job. These are not salaried editors at a magazine or newspaper. They do not have time to give personalized advice on every report. They do not get paid to help us improve our writing skills. There are many online and offline resources for you to seek out for the help you want.
The rare times editors are salaried employees they will try to coach someone. Off hand Shoppers Critique, the old Feedback Plus and Mercantile have actually called me to discuss reports and offer insight for improvement. Granted, for each company it was only once. I wouldn't have expected them to continue for long. It is probably done for shoppers with fairly solid reports already.
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In addition to those mentioned by Lisa, I have occasionally gotten individualized feedback from editors at ACL.
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An eight is great, a nine is fine...I don't know what to say about a ten.
I did two pizza shops for a certain Intelligent shopping company recently--one shop was for a one or two topping pizza and the other was for a cheese pizza, to be conducted at the same time and at the same location, yet there were two separate reports. Since the shops were conducted at the same time/same place, I copied and pasted the narrative from the first shop report into the second shop report. Identical narrative that was exactly the same--different editors for each report. One gave me a 10 and the other gave me an 8 (for grammatical errors). LOL! It's funny that one editor thought the narrative was perfect and the other didn't. It used to bother me when I got 8s and 9s and I would wonder exactly what errors I made so that I could do better; I would email the editors back and ask, but the replies were usually pretty vague because they had done a few or several more edits since they edited mine and they couldn't remember exactly why or what I did that could have been improved (if they responded back at all). Editors are not always perfect (even when your report actually was). As many other shoppers have pointed out in various other threads, as long as we get paid, we shouldn't let it bother us.
I did two pizza shops for a certain Intelligent shopping company recently--one shop was for a one or two topping pizza and the other was for a cheese pizza, to be conducted at the same time and at the same location, yet there were two separate reports. Since the shops were conducted at the same time/same place, I copied and pasted the narrative from the first shop report into the second shop report. Identical narrative that was exactly the same--different editors for each report. One gave me a 10 and the other gave me an 8 (for grammatical errors). LOL! It's funny that one editor thought the narrative was perfect and the other didn't. It used to bother me when I got 8s and 9s and I would wonder exactly what errors I made so that I could do better; I would email the editors back and ask, but the replies were usually pretty vague because they had done a few or several more edits since they edited mine and they couldn't remember exactly why or what I did that could have been improved (if they responded back at all). Editors are not always perfect (even when your report actually was). As many other shoppers have pointed out in various other threads, as long as we get paid, we shouldn't let it bother us.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
An eight is great, a nine is fine...I don't know what to say about a ten.
A ten is zen!
I have also learned a lot from an ACL editor. She called to clarify a simple question that turned out to be an error in the guidelines. I much appreciated the call and the clarification. She didn't have to do that and I know all don't. That is one of the reasons I like doing shops for ACL.
Some MSC's are helpful, but they seem to be the smaller ones, probably ones where the owner of the MSC is involved in the operation. the bigger they are, it seems the less likely they are to explain anything to a shopper.
Time to build a bigger bridge.
@saacman5033 wrote:
Looking at it another way, if we're being paid for 8's & 9's and receive plenty of repeat assignments, why strive for the 10? I want to give each MSC everything they need to submit a quality report but no more than that. I know my pay isn't increasing for having a "perfect report".
I think that the better the report, the more opportunities you will have. If a scheduler is offering a job the person that more often than not gets 10's would probably get the job before the person that more often than not gets 7's imo.
I don't always get a 10 but I always strive for one. :-)
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Motivation increases when we assume large responsibilities with a short deadline.
Motivation increases when we assume large responsibilities with a short deadline.
Striving for a ten and losing sleep over an eight or nine are two different things.
Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
Some MSCs hand out 10s like candy, others not so much. I like the positive feedback, but I believe the post about not taking it personally and moving on is a good way to be. Recently I got a low grade and comments were included about my sentance structure and a punctuation error (all my fault.) The final comment was "great job, keep up the good work!" which amused me. I have moved on. Hope you are having a great weekend!
@LisaSTL wrote:
Striving for a ten and losing sleep over an eight or nine are two different things.
That's true.
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Who's losing sleep over an 8 or 9? I didn't see anyone say that.
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And I didn't quote anyone. It was simply another perspective after someone stated they didn't find it necessary to strive for a ten.
Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
I got a 9 from an editor who previously gave me 10s, and one time left me this comment: "You're entire report was fabulous. Thank you." So I am being edited, judged and scored by someone who does not know the difference between a contraction and a possessive pronoun. Go figure!
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