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Have you ever wondered why it takes 3 hours to report a 20-minute shop? Why do companies want us to repeat everything in a different way 5 or 6 times? I feel like I am administering the MMPI2 to myself! (I was a psychologist in my former career.)

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2016 03:29AM by CJT.

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Sorry to hear that you''re having that trouble. Cut and paste is sometimes useful in these situations. If you have written a long narrative, things can sometimes be moved around a little bit and answers shortened without the overall report actually being changed.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2016 05:56AM by OceanGirl.

@CJT wrote:

Have you ever wondered why it takes 3 hours to report a 20-minute shop? Why do companies want us to repeat everything in a different way 5 or 6 times? I feel like I am administering the MMPI2 to myself! (I was a psychologist in my former career.)

I have often asked the same thing (to myself anyway). I love it when they say "Short Report" or "Easy report", I often wonder if I have a misunderstanding of the meaning of "Short" or "Easy".

On the flip side, I have done some true short ones which made me wonder what information they could possibly use, thinking there was not enough information asked for to be useful.

what really gets me is when they don't ask for pictures instead you write a long description of where the tip jar is placed or how your fries looked.

I think they are trying to force every detail out of your memory. I just did a shop and I thought I was on the final (8-10 sentences minimum.) summary screen thinking I wrapped up all the information I could possibly give them and hit the next screen and it was scale of 1-10, and questions like if I would suggest the restaurant to a friend and name some competition in the area and they threw another summary box in there to describe why I gave what overall ratings and made me start to just regurgitate the same information from the previous screen without cut and pasting it. It is one of my favorite places to eat, so I will do whatever dance is required. It almost seemed as if they were asking for opinion and not facts. Grrr...

@scanman1 wrote:

I think they are trying to force every detail out of your memory. I just did a shop and I thought I was on the final (8-10 sentences minimum.) summary screen thinking I wrapped up all the information I could possibly give them and hit the next screen and it was scale of 1-10, and questions like if I would suggest the restaurant to a friend and name some competition in the area and they threw another summary box in there to describe why I gave what overall ratings and made me start to just regurgitate the same information from the previous screen without cut and pasting it. It is one of my favorite places to eat, so I will do whatever dance is required. It almost seemed as if they were asking for opinion and not facts. Grrr...

This sounds an awful lot like a pizza shop I just did... I'm wondering if it's the same place...

@Liz36 wrote:

This sounds an awful lot like a pizza shop I just did... I'm wondering if it's the same place...

I would not write that much narrative for a pizza. I wrote some moderate narrative tonight for a pizza sit down shop that had a shop fee on top of a reimbursement that allowed me to get a glass of wine and have enough leftovers for lunch for two tomorrow as well as dinner tonight. It was a full service shop with appetizer and quality ingredients.

@scanman1 wrote:

@Liz36 wrote:

This sounds an awful lot like a pizza shop I just did... I'm wondering if it's the same place...

I would not write that much narrative for a pizza. I wrote some moderate narrative tonight for a pizza sit down shop that had a shop fee on top of a reimbursement that allowed me to get a glass of wine and have enough leftovers for lunch for two tomorrow as well as dinner tonight. It was a full service shop with appetizer and quality ingredients.

Must have just been for the same company. The report sounds exactly the same. WAY too much narrative for pizza but it was my first shop for them and thankfully came with a bonus.

I have not ever taken three hours to write a report. I find that if you answer all of the questions and go back and do the narrative or narratives, you will know ahead of time what you are expected to put in each narrative. Only answer the questions. Sometimes you can answer five questions in one sentence. Example: I was not offered any information about, Cds, Investments, other services, and he did not cross-sell other products.

Sometimes they ask the same question in a different way or in a different section to make sure you're being consistent in your responses, or that your answers are supported by subsequent that information you provide. I can see that for key points, but sometimes it sure seems unnecessarily redundant and time consuming to me. I guess they think it keeps us "honest."

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