Heavens to Betsy.

LisaSTL wrote:
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> I also contained much more inflammatory language
> that was edited down by the OP after experienced
> shoppers expressed a dissenting opinion.

Experienced shoppers had nothing to do with my edits. Many of my edits are to correct grammar and syntax. Also, the forum rules place no restrictions on number of edits. But no experienced shopper is going to back me down or off an opinion that I hold.

And as for your experience, LisaSTL, yes, you have more years shopping than I do, but then I've never completely forgotten to do a scheduled shop as you have and slept through my shop then called and made a joke about it with the scheduler. So yes, LisaSTL, you have experience that I don't have, since I've never done what you did.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2014 03:24PM by aggiejim72.

@ aggjim72 re the post above i think you confused me with someone else as i did not post the 3 sentences with > above.

ishoparound Wrote:
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> @ aggjim72 re the post above i think you confused
> me with someone else as i did not post the 3
> sentences with > above.

Sorry ishoparound I correct my error above.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2014 03:29PM by ishoparound.

hmmm i missed all the edits..... I find myself editing because of the weird indents that make the post look choppy. It sounds like I need to take my own advice and refrain from posting unless I am doing so from the original post. Good lesson learned thanks all and happy day.

First off, the quote came from me, not Lisa. She was commenting on what I said. I think professionalism is defined more clearly by how one handles adversity, rather than the ability to show up at a particular place and time...and I would consider Lisa to be one of the most professional shoppers based on her input here.

@Aggie, It does seem that your opinion cannot be changed, no matter what the facts presented are. I will agree on that point.

As for the edits; Clearly writing is not your forte, and I assume that is why you shy away from MSCs that require a lot of writing. You continue to assume all shoppers come from that same place, and that is a mistaken assumption.

And if anyone would care to read the 3 year old post he dredged up, it is obvious my feeling was one of relief. I did not sleep through a shop nor did I make a joke of my error. It was the scheduler who chuckled. She was quite kind and understanding while I was mortified. Her gracious response was one I will never forget.

There is a difference between striving to provide excellent work and being perfect. We deal with human beings who know perfection is an unattainable goal. A mark of professionalism is not perfection, it is how you handle mistakes along with the strides you make to correct and learn from them. I hope new shoppers do not become intimidated because one person is implying they can never hope to succeed if they cannot do everything right the first time.

I think most people are starting to recognize the troll for what it is by now.

Let's see what his perfection ratio is when his total shop count starts to approach yours . . . maybe ten or 20 years from now.

Nobody expects perfection from shoppers. Sure, they'd like to have it, but we're not robots, and even if we were, even robots break down.

But it's stunning to see this amount of arrogance coming out of one person with so little experience to back it up.

I think most schedulers would prefer a shopper who might blow 1 out of 100 (or 1000?) shops than to have one whose narratives have to be edited thirteen times to get them right and who thinks he knows more than people who have done 50 or 100 or in some cases 1000 times as many shops as he has.

This is like someone who can barely add two plus two trying to argue about long division with calculus majors.

dspeakes Wrote:
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> Edited 13 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2014 10:24AM
> by aggiejim72.
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> Good grief.

2 hour diy shops explained?

Jacob has given the OP 6 days and 19 hours to semi-complete his narrative(he may need a few more edits) for a post, more time then any of us get to write and submit a report. So Mr expert investigator and evaluator, it takes us more time to become efficient. So go toot your own horn while we try to catch up.

My best companies are the companies that pay me. My worst companies are the companies that don't pay, or have me chasing payment post 90 days.

sojo917 Wrote:
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> Jacob has given the OP 6 days and 19 hours to
> semi-complete his narrative(he may need a few more
> edits) for a post.

He should have asked MF about their use of predictive analytics to identify negativity bias in shoppers.

When a member appears arrogant, is this against the rules? Just toggle. Who is to blame for all this vitriol, me, or those who can't operate the toggle switch. I am as good as any shopper here, because shopping is not a difficult job to master. Is it hard to eat a meal for Coyle? No. Is it hard to justify writing a narrative that takes 3 hours to finish. Yes. It might take an average employee 3 weeks to learn how to do this job up to the level of a veteran shopper. Someone who has done 1000 shops is no better after #1000 than they were after #50. That's why companies trim their ranks of older shoppers every day, because shoppers actually get worse as they go along, not better. This industry wants new shoppers, and wants full-time shoppers to go by the wayside. That's why companies are moving toward mobile apps because the clients are demanding a better way to gather data. That's why companies are paying less and less for shops. They want to kill off the full-time shopper. They want amateurs to be their shoppers. They want to figure out how they can get good reports from amateurs. Professional shoppers live for the bonus. Companies hate to pay those bonuses. Pay doesn't improve for a shopper with age and more shops--in fact, full-time shoppers just shop themselves out of a job.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2014 01:19AM by aggiejim72.

Huh?

Hey Mary, just how high do they pile bullshit in Texas?

Well, Lisa, that depends. If you’re talking about a regular old cow @#$%& patty, when you step in that you’ll get @#$%& up an inch or two all around your shoe. Now if you’re barefooted that’s different. That @#$%& will also squirt up between your toes and its hard as @#$%& to get it out from under your toenails.

But if you run onto a real bullshit patty, now that’s something else. You step in that bullshit patty and it will come up over the tops of your shoes and even get up on your socks. That @#$%& is hard as @#$%& to get washed out of your socks. Of course if you’re barefooted it just sucks your whole foot in and then you’re standing there trying to shake that @#$%& off. Probably the best thing to do is avoid @#$%& all you can, but I know sometimes you just step in it unawares because you’re not paying the right kind of attention.

I’m probably going to end up in deep @#$%& on account of this post but I did not want to leave your question without response. All I can recommend to you is to keep a sharp eye out for @#$%& especially the larger deposits.

OMG I think I just died.

bgriffin Wrote:
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> OMG I think I just died.


I think you are just using that as a reason
to get mouth to mouth from someone

YES! Never thought of that before but I'm so using it in the future!

But ... but ... it's an Expert investigator and evaluator with PV-700, PV-500EVO, AstroScope 9350NIKS-3PRO, B&H DNV16HDZ-M Full Infrared Night Vision Camcorder.

Why aren't you impressed by that? Wow. It knew how to type big words like "investigator" and "evaluator" and spelled PV right.

There are so many shops requiring a full infrared night vision camcorder. I'll bet its phone never stops ringing with offers.

EDITED so I would fit in with the theme of the OP's thread which apparently is on editing posts.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/31/2014 01:23PM by Shop2LiveinFL.

Oops, my fingers just toggled someone.

I did have a bad experience with Coyle, which I dislike for the long narratives and constant editing and re-editing. I applied for a shop and the scheduler could not get ahold of me through e-mail or the phone to confirm the assignment. Despite the situation, the scheduler still assigned the shop to me and then gave me a bad report when I never showed up.

I had an emergency business trip to Europe, so I was not able to respond to the scheduler until I was able to connect to the Internet in Europe.

Another time, the cafeteria required buying a prepaid meal card and I was not reimbursed for the amount I had to pay to obtain the prepaid meal card (only for the price of the meal), so I was left with a meal card that had credit at a company I have no access to unless I do a repeat of the assignment 6 months later.

I have had good experiences with the bank shops at Maritz, but find that the assignments can fill up quickly. I have also done car shops with Intellishop.

Edited because I really don't care. I just don't have much energy to devote to conflict at the moment.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2014 10:42PM by Mantis.

Be careful about jumping to conclusions with new posters. Remember the TonyLorenzini fiasco?

The same.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2014 10:42PM by Mantis.

Since what I was replying to was edited out, I'll play too and edit my post away.

But I won't edit it 13 times.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2014 07:14AM by dspeakes.

I am new to mystery shopping. The first company I shopped for was Intelli-shop. I've only done about seven shops with them, but all of my ratings have been a 10 (except for one 9). I try to be as detailed as possible with my narratives and that seems to work for me. The reviewers I've received have left nice comments, or comments that will help me improve as a shopper.

Is it possible that aggiejim is a cousin of Ishop4you? Remember him? Did he show up in NOLA with his bus and college kids in tow?

There are some people who believe he is one and the same. I am not say if I am or am not one of those people.