@BlueMoose wrote:
I just love it that their idiotic website deletes our shops from the completed shop log after 14 days...that way we have no proof of having done shops for them and they can just ignore all requests for payment.
@BlueMoose wrote:
Good grief. I agree that Maritz is simply a joke. Avoid like the plague.
@BlueMoose wrote:
Good grief. I agree that Maritz is simply a joke. Avoid like the plague.
@BlueMoose and @BirdyC, you are running a small business. It is YOUR responsibility to keep meticulous business records whether it be a digital spreadsheet or old school pen and paper (or whatever they used before technology.) It is not the MSC's responsibility to keep records for you.@BirdyC wrote:
@BlueMoose wrote:
I just love it that their idiotic website deletes our shops from the completed shop log after 14 days...that way we have no proof of having done shops for them and they can just ignore all requests for payment.
That really bothered me, too, because although I keep all my shop-related e-mails, I had no real way of knowing if the shop was approved until I received payment! And if I hadn't kept the e-mails, I would have no way, other than my feeble memory, of knowing if the amount paid was the amount contracted for.
You may want to read my post again. The first paragraph was directed at you and BlueMoose. The second paragraph was directed at just BlueMoose. The third paragraph/sentence was a general statement.@BirdyC wrote:
Sybil, I certainly hope your comment about ignorance and laziness is not directed at me!
...(So, if your comment was directed at me, I'd like to know how you reached your conclusion.)
No, I am not human.@BirdyC wrote:
I input the fee amounts into my spreadsheet, but it's possible I could make a typo (I'm not perfect like some people), and typing isn't my strength. I do proofread everything, but, again, since I'm human, I make mistakes. Surely even you make them from time to time? Or aren't you human?
@Sybil2 wrote:
You may want to read my post again. The first paragraph was directed at you and BlueMoose. The second paragraph was directed at just BlueMoose. The third paragraph/sentence was a general statement.
@BirdyC wrote:
On top of which, you did imply, in your directed statement, that I don't keep meticulous records and that I expect Maritz to do my record-keeping for me. Since you don't know me, I don't know why you assumed that. People who do know me often accuse me of being anal in my recordkeeping.
@MsJudi wrote:
Here's a good one for you.. I got a call last week asking if I could do some gas stations that weren't too close to me. I made an offer for two of them, reluctantly since I didn't really want to go and one had 16 pumps and both were in not so great areas. I told them I would need what I got last time I did them, but the last time I had a group of at least four so I added a few bucks to the request. It was not astronomical, by any means. Scheduler called back with counter-offer shortly after. I decided to take it, again reluctantly. About half an hour later, the supervisor called and told me the incentive was way too high and she would have to pull the shops. She said they had never paid that much.Now, I'm getting annoyed on principle. I reminded her that I had accepted THEIR counter-offer and asked if she was seriously going to remove the shops after they were accepted. I reminded her that I had in fact actually received that incentive several months earlier. She said she would chalk it up to her mistake and leave the shops, but threatened me that I might not be seeing such high incentives in the future. ...Whoa, I'm scared...The incentive was $21.50. That doesn't seem like it would be breaking the bank. Believe me those two stations were worth more than that with the time it took to do them both. I do wish they would walk in our shoes and do the shops themselves so they know what is entailed. Did she think I would just roll over and say, "Oh okay. Go ahead and take them away now." Probably because I was reluctant to accept them in the beginning and they probably found a shopper after the fact who would take them for less. I've found the schedulers to be pleasant and sweet, but the supervisor was nasty.
@CoffeeQueen wrote:
When schedulers call with unreasonable requests just say no. Either they will pony up your requested amount or they won't. However, I think it's a little unreasonable to expect them to when you have only completed one shop for them. .