I was spoke to a former coworker yesterday. We were working in the same store for different companies, and ran into each other when we were signing out. We went for a coffee to chat and she spilled her guts about the crap she pulled back when we worked for the same company. (mid 90's) Which is now out of business, unfortunately.
1) Walk in the back door of the store, sign in, walk out the front into the mall. Shop, walk back in and sign out and get the needed signature from the customer service desk.
2) Have identical store stamps made for your regular stores. Stamp the reports, call the store and ask who the manager on duty is that day and forge their name on the report. ( We didn't have to take photos in those days.)
3) Call the store and say you are from such and such a company ( not the one you are really from, the one the audited product is), and are going to be auditing their display on a certain day. Then go a day later and take credit like you did the display.
4) Claim the store lost whatever. Shipper, POP. Do the report, then you go in for the second time, which was really the first time, and do what you were supposed to. Two visits, 2 pay outs, plus mileage and drive time.
This is just the high points. I was so P.O.'d. I had heard various rumors when she left, but, not the nitty gritty of why. Now I know why. How many other people were doing this and more?
I understand why so many companies have such breath taking requirements to prove you really did the job.
Geo tracker, photo of the front of the store, calling from the store phone, photos with paper with store number and date in front of set. Photos of the boxes of product in the back room. Before and after photos, employee holding the POP handout in front of the display, to name a few.
Thanks cheaters.