@stormraven73 wrote:
Okay, I found another one tonight! Having a shop returned with the comment, "There were some oops, please fix." No other info.
If the scheduler deducts points for "having to contact" me, that will be another peeve.
@stormraven73 wrote:
Definitely no travel pay for an "urgent" shop, especially since in my area that often involves hundreds of miles of travel. I set up routes when there is time, but last minute shops often don't have that luxury.
@PasswordNotFound wrote:
Schedulers who will "get back to you" about a $3 bonus, then wait until the day before it's due to assign it. Um, no. I was being generous with the bonus because I was fitting it into a route. You snooze, you lose.
Yep. The shipping shop company seems to be one that has changed their assignments to this model. When you know shopper A is going to get 30 shops done reliably for a total of $200 bonus, isn't that a lot better than filling the 20 that are easy to fill and ending up having to pay bonuses on the other ten, one negotiation at a time? Penny-wise, pound-foolish.@MA Smith wrote:
I get it. Schedulers need to keep their costs down, but it seems ridiculous when the pattern has been established that they're going to pay out anyways. Why not get the dependable shopper?
@PasswordNotFound wrote:
Yep. The shipping shop company seems to be one that has changed their assignments to this model. When you know shopper A is going to get 30 shops done reliably for a total of $200 bonus, isn't that a lot better than filling the 20 that are easy to fill and ending up having to pay bonuses on the other ten, one negotiation at a time? Penny-wise, pound-foolish.@MA Smith wrote:
I get it. Schedulers need to keep their costs down, but it seems ridiculous when the pattern has been established that they're going to pay out anyways. Why not get the dependable shopper?
@stormraven73 wrote:
Okay, I found another one tonight! Having a shop returned with the comment, "There were some oops, please fix." No other info. When I opened the shop, there were no oops markers (I thought it was impossible to submit if you still had an "oops," anyway).
@pammie8223 wrote:
My pet peeve is a $2 bonus on a $5.00 shop.
Because it's invariably advertised as "40% bonus!!!!"@ChicagoShopper wrote:
Why is that a peeve? $7 is better than $5.@pammie8223 wrote:
My pet peeve is a $2 bonus on a $5.00 shop.
@risinghorizon wrote:
Here is my foremost pet peeve because it's been happening for the past week and it is driving me crazy.
Completed 2 shops, received an e mail that 1 shop was incomplete. Receipt was not received. Surprising because the report was actually finalized. So downloaded receipt but could not finalize because one question should not have been answered, so said the form. So deleted answer. Not accepted. Turned to scheduler. Was told to answer it anyway.
Received email that it went through because the scheduler did something. Received email from editor that the other one which was finalized was incomplete. Went through the same thing. Downloaded and finalized. Confirmed by scheduler.
Received email that both were accepted and would be paid. The next day, the editor emailed that receipt was not received for one. Went through the same thing. Then another editor advising that the other location was incomplete because the receipt was not downloaded.
Went through the same thing. The scheduler confirmed that the receipts were not received. Huh? Requested that I sent them to her but did not seem to remember anything she emailed me or previous problem.
So, here I was again, downloading the receipts. And this time I said, "I give up!" The last time I heard, they had accepted one shop, the other was still in limbo and I had vowed never again to do any shop for them. If they still had no inkling that something was very wrong from their end, I have enough problems of my own.
@MA Smith wrote:
@PasswordNotFound wrote:
Yep. The shipping shop company seems to be one that has changed their assignments to this model. When you know shopper A is going to get 30 shops done reliably for a total of $200 bonus, isn't that a lot better than filling the 20 that are easy to fill and ending up having to pay bonuses on the other ten, one negotiation at a time? Penny-wise, pound-foolish.@MA Smith wrote:
I get it. Schedulers need to keep their costs down, but it seems ridiculous when the pattern has been established that they're going to pay out anyways. Why not get the dependable shopper?
Penny-wise, pound-foolish gets on my last nerve in my every day life. I will never understand the need to buy something that isn't what you wanted, return it, purchase the next item, still not what you wanted, return it and keep doing it until you finally end up purchasing what you wanted in the first place. I know there is something that says crazy/stupid is repeating the same thing and expecting a different outcome.
This beeswax is rampant with the men in my family, It makes the females bonkers. 2014, it was decided I trade in my 18 yr. old Nissan Maxima. I needed a truck. I ended up with a Subaru Forester, that I will never love. I bought it brand new and it's been one royal pain after the other. Leave it to me to buy a Subaru that was a lemon, but not big enough of a lemon for Subaru to live up to the extended warranty that I said was stupid to purchase in the first place. Don't listen to the accounting major that knows the extended warranties are normally free money because of the rules.. Oh, alright, the vehicle never had a chance when less than 24 hours the male drove it and said..."I should've listened and got a truck".
I'll admit this month I had probably had my one of my favorite schedulers on the edge. I overslept. The next day available to shop I was living in my bathroom. The day after the nasty experience in the bathroom; I was on the road with a low grade fever. or one really long hot flash. I managed to get everything done. Took a day off and then drove over another 400 miles for her. Monday, I tried an experiment of taking the dog and spending the night on the road. Barring the mattress that was made of rocks and the temperature spike in TX, it was the best idea I've had in a long time.
My point is I have a scheduler who might be penny-wise but she isn't pound foolish. It behooves every shopper to work for schedulers like her so in theory this thread will go away like the dinosaurs.
Will that ever happen? Nope!