While on the phone with my favorite scheduler at Inteilli-shop this AM (yes, had to cancel 3 shops and reschedule 2 others! Woe is me!), I brought up this thing about hero citations. I asked her why mine don't show, are they worth anything, and what do they mean. Here's the scoop: shoppers (me!) have to notify the scheduler after the citation shop is completed and finalized, so the scheduler can add the citations to the shopper's profile. The scheduler is not notified by the company that the shop is finalized, it's up to the shopper. So I said, well, I think I've done about 40 shops for you (personally) where the e-mail offer cited hero citations. Do I have any of those on my account? She checked. Nope. That's why I can't see them, they've never been granted. OK, is it worth you going back through the records and adding them? (Realizing that schedulers are just as frantic and frazzled this time of year as am I.) Yes, says she; hero citations can cancel a flake. 10 hero citations is the equivalent of 10 reports with scores of 10. Well, I think my average is already like maybe 9. So I'm not worried about that. ( I can't control idiot editors who send me blank e-mails, then dock me 2 points because they sent me a blank e-mail -- and 2 MORE points because I wrote back and said "why the blank e-mail?", which necessitated yet another e-mail from the editor.)
And then she explained "plum assignments". If there's a slew of applicants for, say, a casino shop, preference is definitely given to hero citation shoppers, all other things being equal.
I then asked her if it was okay to pass this info on to other shoppers, and she said sure, go ahead. So I'm posting it here. And I told her to go ahead and find my 40 odd citations, and add them to my log!
See ya at one of those casinos!