@LIJake wrote:
I believe you are supposed to gas up, park the car, use the restroom, then go back to the car and get the LOA and return to the store. Once they see a clipboard and camera they know you are the shopper.
@LIJake wrote:
The only glitch in that sequence is the restroom timing. Even if you have very small digital camera or use your cell phone, which some MSC's don't allow, sometimes the restroom is so small that the shot has to be taken from outside while holding the door. Or if the restroom is pristine, a rarity, you're in and out in a few seconds
@apercu wrote:
They do not "instruct" you to use the restroom. They want a picture of it. I can't pee on demand anyway.
@Sybil2 wrote:
@apercu wrote:
They do not "instruct" you to use the restroom. They want a picture of it. I can't pee on demand anyway.
No one is telling you that you have to actually use the restroom. It is not like you need to pee and leave your scent as POV!
@Sybil2 wrote:
I try to take all of my required interior photos right after the reveal but that is not always the best management of my time. If there is only one employee and a very busy store (which a lot of mine are), I always let the customers go first. Instead of wasting time standing there, I will go outside and take my outside photos. If I see that the store activity has died down a bit, I will run back inside to take the photos during the quiet time.
As far as taking the extra steps back and forth, I love it, I love watching my FitBit numbers increase. I actually walk around the whole perimeter of the gas station for my outside observations like perimeter lights and signage. Gas station employees have told me that other inspectors stay in their vehicles. You can miss a lot sitting in a car. I like the extra exercise.
So you would rather stand inside the store waiting for all the customers to make their purchases and turn in their umpteen lottery tickets that need to be scanned by hand than to walk outside and continue with the audit? That does not sound too efficient to me. I am not walking around the parking lot just for the exercise; it is part of the inspection. And I have an hourly goal of meeting a certain amount of steps.@LisaSTL wrote:
Exercise is all well and good. However, my priority is efficiency and time. With the time saved I can walk around the woods near my home or at the zoo rather than try to get a few extra steps in on a dirty gas station parking lot.
@Sybil2 wrote:
; it is part of the inspection. And I have an hourly goal of meeting a certain amount of steps.
Okay, bgriffin. I mean, LisaSTL. Since you yourself said, "Bear in mind I don't do gas audits for the company that seems to have most of them," I'm not sure why you are questioning the methods of people who do successfully perform them on a regular basis. And what works for one person will not necessarily work for another person. We are throwing out ideas here.@LisaSTL wrote:
Sybil, for someone so full of themselves you have no problem being obtuse when it suits your purposes.