anyone done the big cell phone store audits for which you have to go through a training, have drug testing done and work 12 hours over two days.

Is it worth it? Does it take the entire 12 hours or did you finish earlier.. or does it take more time than what is alloted?

I don't think that is just cell phones. It is a whole store audit of a big place from the front door mats through the trash compactor. I haven't heard any enthusiasm for the job and I do see continuing solicitations for shoppers to do them even though you were committing to doing the same place every other month. I have learned from the 100 item audits with a different company that on site times are very variable and depend to a great extent on the quality of assistance you are offered. I have not been impressed with the quality or speed of assistance given me as a customer in these stores in my area, so why would I expect better as an auditor? I would anticipate that in my market the time suggested would be the minimum, not the maximum or even the likely.

I just did the 100 item audit for a different msc and would not do it again. This from someone who can spit out the TS grocery 50 item ones in record speed (and did something like 159 of them in 9 months.) The 100 item audit took place in a spotlessly clean 3 level anchor dept. store had less than 5 mis-priced items and took 5 minutes to enter-but 3 hours and 5 minutes in the store. I can't imagine me signing up for anything like this other than groceries again.
Except for the NSS pricing survey. They compensate VERY well for that.

Thank you!

Not that a drug test would be impossible for me to pass, but I don't believe in having to go for training and drug testing to pick up work doing shops/re-sets/audits. When I worked in the real-world, at my real job, making real money I did all of this, but not for the chance of doing a few audits.

Any other opinoins in general on the subject of drug testing and training for a simple audit?

In the case of this particular shop, my understanding is that the client requires drug testing and background checks on all employees, merchandisers and miscellaneous folks who are not customers in the store. When this shop was originally discussed, the MSP was offering more money for it and implying less baloney than eventually was required. In my area it looked to be a decent gig alternating months to visit different locations in my immediate area (one 5 miles away, one 12 miles away) and even being able to pick up slightly further locations on either an emergency basis or a regular basis should the shops turn out to be a gift. We put up with a fair amount of malarkey and so although the testing and background check were an invasion of my privacy, I could live with it. Plus it basically meant more paperwork as the MSP was going to pick up the tab for the testing and background check with the completion of the first job and it would not need to be done again.

Maybe these have worked well for some folks. The initial scuttlebutt I heard was that they were a huge mess. By now I'm sure they have those chinks worked out of it. I see them advertised from time to time, which tells me folks have dropped out of the program for whatever reason. But the price tag on the job is $20 less than they originally were going to pay for them and they only dropped the price when they actually scheduled in response to indications of interest.