@isaiah58 wrote:
I have seen this subject brought up here over and over. To be blunt, what we do or do not do for a living is not relevant. None of us are more important than anyone else. Our commitment to the MSCs is not based on our occupation.
When applying for a assignment, we the shoppers are fully responsible for keeping track of our applications. The MSCs do not provide a flag for us to set to indicate our due date on the type of open request this is about. As a professional, we then determine when to remove pending applications. If a MSC finds an application sitting open, they are right to assume that shopper is available at a moments notice.
Before blame shifting, look in the mirror. Run your business properly, learn each MSCs process for each client ; before, during and after.
@kkdidit2xs wrote:
I applied for a shop over a week ago. Never heard anything. I am an Advocate for the Court for Domestic Violence Victims. I was asked to go to court with a Woman that needed our help. I checked my E-mail as soon as I could that day, (yesterday) and I saw that I was accepted for that assignment. Yep, It was do that same day. (yesterday). Oh and it had to be done at a certain time. I would not be out of court and done with the paper work until late. So I could not do the shop. I emailed the scheduler back and told her that if I would have known days sooner I could have done the job. I pretty much told her that it was really stupid to assign a job at 10:07 am that is do that same day, and had to be shopped between 10 am and 3 pm.
@kkdidit2xs wrote:
I agree, I am an idiot. I totally spaced off that I had requested that. I can come up with any excuse in the world, but when it comes right down to it, I should have remembered I should have deleted it. But I get so frustrated with the schedulers that most of the time I do not step back take a moment and think. I have been shopping for the past 15 years. I should have known better.
@Flash wrote:
Problem with that, Isaiah is that if you call they are likely to say "no" while if you just drop it in their lap there is a fighting chance they will do it rather than cancel. Likely kkdidit was assigned the shop at the last minute because somebody else cancelled and a phone conversation might well have resulted in a demand for a bonus.
@pammie8223 wrote:
I was just automatically assigned a shop during Thanksgiving week. I called to let them know that I was going out of town the scheduler got mad at me. I'm probably deactivated.
@pammie8223 wrote:
I was just automatically assigned a shop during Thanksgiving week. I called to let them know that I was going out of town the scheduler got mad at me. I'm probably deactivated.
@Tarantado wrote:
@pammie8223 wrote:
I was just automatically assigned a shop during Thanksgiving week. I called to let them know that I was going out of town the scheduler got mad at me. I'm probably deactivated.
Why would you get deactivated if you were "automatically assigned?"
@AustinMom wrote:
Is this Maritz you are talking about, pammie? Maritz auto assigns. When you complete an assignment, one of the last questions is something like "Will you agree to allow us to automatically assign you to this shop in the next round?" If you say yes, you have agreed to allow them to auto assign you. I always say NO. After saying NO, a pop-up box asks me why I said no to auto assign. I always answer that I prefer to make decisions on a each case based on assignment, date, and payment and I am unwilling to be auto assigned.
But apparently there are a lot of shopper who click yes and agree to be auto assigned shops by Maritz. I don't know of any other companies that do this. I certainly can't imagine a company auto assigning a shop to a shopper without that shopper's prior agreement. If anyone knows of a company that auto assigns shops to shoppers without prior agreement, please let us know.
@AustinMom wrote:
And I'm okay with companies having various forms of auto assign, as long as the shoppers who are auto assigned have agreed in advance to be be auto assigned.
You are being totally unrealistic. Everyone should cancel all work for an entire week revolving around a one-day holiday that focuses on eating like pigs and watching football? Not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving. I am sure it is not a favorite holiday of the Native Americans.@pammie8223 wrote:
I agree, I also think that they should not auto assign on the week of Thanksgiving, is it just me or is that kind of unusual planning?
@Sybil2 wrote:
You are being totally unrealistic. Everyone should cancel all work for an entire week revolving around a one-day holiday that focuses on eating like pigs and watching football? Not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving. I am sure it is not a favorite holiday of the Native Americans.@pammie8223 wrote:
I agree, I also think that they should not auto assign on the week of Thanksgiving, is it just me or is that kind of unusual planning?
Many shoppers love working around a major holiday. We get to pick up all the highly bonused shops that others flake on with the impending end-of-the month soon to follow.
As far as Maritz auto-assigning, YOU agreed to it at the end of your report from the previous rotation. If you did not want to work the entire Thanksgiving week, you should not have agreed to the auto-assign and break your contract with them. They did not randomly pick you out of thin air and assign shops to you. Time for a reality check.