Pet peeves...
My BIG pet peeve is when schedulers refer to a meal as being "free" or "on them."
"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
Getting a personal text about a shop in Michigan, when I live in California...asking if I "happen to be in the area this week".
Getting an email to self-reschedule a shop for urgency/client reasons... but I can't reschedule the date on my end because there isn't an option on the MSC website.
MegglesKat
Getting an urgent email to do a shop at base fee.
Hourly urgent emails.
Hourly urgent emails.
"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
Guidelines that ask for details such as 'were there shopping baskets by the door?'. Question is not in survey but instead 'What color were the walls?' that wasn't in the guidelines.
Getting separate emails from same company for same job miles from my home, talking like 10...so, I sent back email asking why when my radius for you is 10 miles, and you send emails for 60 RT. Why not send me jobs in my town, I know you've got them...help and no pads (I've asked).
Live consciously....
Receiving a text/email asking if I can do a shop for them that needs to be done today or tomorrow. I reply back yes and then don't get any response back. I have asked if it was given to someone else and was told yes, it would be kind of nice if they would let me know that it was given to someone else.
Getting a request for more info on a shop or even just a comment from an editor. I click reply and the email address to reply to starts with "no reply" And most of the above comments as well especially since some schedulers think a shop at the north end of my state which is 800 or more miles away is near me. As long as it says California it must be near me!!!
I’m pretty new, so I haven’t developed any pet peeves, but one thing I don’t like so far is when the service did not take place as expected and there is no way to put it in the report.
Trying to learn from all of these rockstars.
Just filled out a survey for a dining shop where all I needed to order were two small plates, yet the food section had questions about appitzers and deserts with no option for N/A on how I would rate these items (even though they were not required purchases).
Being asked to upload photos of particular items that weren't in the guidelines... because... you know, a typical shopper would capture these extra photos. -_-
Sorry I didn't have my secret rectum camera running while I was browsing books. 0_o
Sorry I didn't have my secret rectum camera running while I was browsing books. 0_o
MegglesKat
Mass emails are sent to everyone. You must be new at this.
Oh yeah. You're going to fit in great here.
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Seriously, nobody cares that you're offended.
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Getting an email listing 50 or more available shops on my area and asking for help only to log onto the site within 5 minutes of the email being sent and seeing no shops available! ????♀️
I used to have a cat that I had named, "Peeve." She was my pet, Peeve.
Since I have been doing Mystery Shopping in the past year, I am grateful for the over one hundred pieces of email I am getting. Some companies are so generous with their email, I get six to eight versions a day, every day throughout the month, even when the jobs are halfway across the state and could offer me as much as $7.
There was a concept created in the 1970's called database marketing. If the agencies would have our addresses and our preferences, they could send us one email a week that would only have the sorts of jobs we wish to do. Shoppers would know that this was customized for them and they hadn't read it twenty five times in the past two days. They would also feel respected by the companies and want to work for them and have a long history.
Perhaps it's time for the industry to adapt some fifty year old technology that will save them time, be able to keep the better shoppers, reduce turnover, reduce confusion, and have a higher percent of the jobs they offer each month covered without the need for panicked phone calls and emails.
Since I have been doing Mystery Shopping in the past year, I am grateful for the over one hundred pieces of email I am getting. Some companies are so generous with their email, I get six to eight versions a day, every day throughout the month, even when the jobs are halfway across the state and could offer me as much as $7.
There was a concept created in the 1970's called database marketing. If the agencies would have our addresses and our preferences, they could send us one email a week that would only have the sorts of jobs we wish to do. Shoppers would know that this was customized for them and they hadn't read it twenty five times in the past two days. They would also feel respected by the companies and want to work for them and have a long history.
Perhaps it's time for the industry to adapt some fifty year old technology that will save them time, be able to keep the better shoppers, reduce turnover, reduce confusion, and have a higher percent of the jobs they offer each month covered without the need for panicked phone calls and emails.
My pet peeve is when you get a shop, and then you have a question?? And call whom ever , which you can never get a to talk with, just leave a message. And get left no answer.
Constant emails for one location, in far away states.
Bar shops that make you go alone, sit at the bar, stay at least an hour and don't allow you to have a newspaper, magazine or use your phone. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson....
Shopping domestic and international locations since 2003.
My biggest pet peeve is a shop that does NOT say in the title "Airport Shop" Please put that in the title so I don't bother wasting my time reading about a shop I would not normally do. 
Getting a text with less than one-day's notice for an eye exam 85 miles one-way from home, with a $25 bonus, and then a lecture text of how experienced the scheduler is as a shopper. UGH!
This is to get you interest in helping them out getting their shops assigned out. Some will offer bonuses if they are desperate.
Never had a cat named Peeve nut had one named PITA.
Lower shop fees with more requirements such as pictures and longer reports
Could care less is my biggest pet peeve.
There are reasons that a body stays in motion
At the moment only demons come to mind
At the moment only demons come to mind
Getting repeated emails for a pee-test. You want me to pee in a cup for $15? Please...
I know what that stands for...@LIJake wrote:
Never had a cat named Peeve nut had one named PITA.
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