Acronyms and other things used in this kind of work explained...

Hello All,

I have been reading the posts all around, and I think this will help anyone coming into this line of work. When I started working in Corporate America, my boss told me to always explain an acronym I am using. At least once in a document. So here are some that I know about to be useful in our business, and the forum as well, and anyone can ask, add, modify or explain any of the followings:

IC: Is Independent Contractor. I use this to describe the "Shopper" I and You are all working as ICs for the Mystery Shopping Provider company.

MSP: Is the Mystery Shopping Provider company.

OP: Refers to the Original Poster. That is the member who posted the very first question, query, comment in a thread of messages. I am the OP of this message thread.

A Message Thread: Oh This is not an acronym but it is the list of messages and replies to a message in a forum. Some messages get a few replies and the thread is short, others will have many replies and the thread is long.

PV-500L3 and PV-500L4: These are the models of the Digital Video Recorders (DVR) most used by Video ICs. The PV-500L4 is the newest model just released around May of 2017.

BU-18: Is the model of the digital button camera that is compatible with the PV-500L3 and PV-500L4 DVRs.

SD-Card: SD stands for Secure Digital and the card is what the DVR will use to save the video footage. Keep plenty of SD-Cards handy. It is advocated that one assignment shop per video card is the best way to go. My opinion is once I am done with the upload, I move the footage to my bigger laptop hard drive and save it for a while I am paid for the assignment. Look here for images of SD-Cards [www.google.com]

OK anyone wants to add, modify, ask about go right ahead...

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I think you will find MSC, mystery shopping company, to be more common on the forum than MSP.

Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary
FWIT = For What It's Worth
SOP = Standard Operating Procedure
RLH--Run Like Hell as in RLH from certain shops/companies

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain
WTH = What the hell
WTF = you need to figure that on your own

Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
Rofl taco - a single taco loaded with everything on it. Named after one of members.
AFAIK - As far as I know.....which isn't much if you read 3 posts up.

Kim


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It means the same thing. Good enough.

Make sure you spike that latte with some Kahlua and Irish cream.
My fave is FMLsmiling smiley

Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
I'm not familiar with that one. Is that one that you can't post what it stands for because it's too profane for the forum?
The last two letters stand for My Life.

Anybody else watch Modern Family? Phil Dunphy, the cool dad, thinks WTF stands for Why the Face.

Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
That's what I thought it was taking a wild guess. LOL, no I've not ever watched Modern Family, but my neighbor used to wonder why I always texted her LOL because she thought it meant Lots of Love. I do love her and everything, but she would text me something funny and I would text back LOL and she couldn't figure out why. LOL!!!!!
LOL is laughing out loud.

Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
Actually, before the Internet, LOL meant "Little Old Lady." As a shopper I often play the LOL card. That is a variation on the "dumb blond" card, but invokes more sympathy.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.


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IDGARA I don't give a rat's ass

Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.
@LisaSTL wrote:

Anybody else watch Modern Family?

One of my favorite shows!

There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind
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