@Piled Hip Deep, PHD wrote:
@CoffeeQueen wrote:
I often see the same shops that someone took off the boards at $8 come back later, highly bonused. They obviously flaked having decided it was not worth it. So then I scoop them up with the bonus. They just did me a favor.
Now you got it! You can do $8 shops when they are bonused. Some desperate shoppers who go to college and senior citizens that run out of money before they run out of month will take the shops. The Senior Citizens will take the shop because they need "filler" in their life and crossword puzzles do not pay as well.
You are an independent contractor. Do not feel guilty leaving the "charity" shops to those who shop them. Unfortunately the Government has in the past tried to "protect" underpaid people. Common sense (you get what you pay for) and independent contractors who are desperate are difficult to legislate.
1. I will rely on you to clarify what is obvious for you but is not obvious for me. Is the scorn for the flake who has decided the $8 job was not worth it the same as that for the flake who forgot or was too drunk to work? Is this scorn the same as that for the shopper who is hospitalized or dead and would have done a shop instead of dying or having the stroke or being hit by a drunk driver? I am not acquainted with any desperate college students who shop. Those who shop have honored their contracts and have not told me this. I have yet to meet any "Senior Citizens who will take the shop because they need 'filler' in their life and crossword puzzles do not pay as well". To begin, do all citizens live one collective life which is now known as 'their life'? Regardless of how many lives the senior citizens have, it is true for all seniors who shop that If they are honoring their contracts, they will never tell us that they shop. It is not our business why any seniors, students, or other shoppers shop. And about these old people who might flake, where do these people live? Should we know this so that we can move to those places and scoop up their jobs when they die and flake and their former jobs become bonused?
(BTW, do you ever thank all of these flakes for their contributions to your inflated paychecks?)
2. I would like to follow up regarding your comment about Common Sense, in which you declare that "you get what you pay for". According to your post, you accept assignments based upon payment to you without consideration of merit, unique skill, talent, especial qualification, or other added value benefit to msc's and their clients. First, do I understand correctly that in your common sense remark 'you' refers to msc's and their clients? Second, is it fair to say that you provide the costliest service that you can to the msc and ultimately to the client and cannot ensure that the msc and client are getting the greatest return on their mystery shopping investment?
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2015 01:58PM by Shop-et-al.