@jameschicago wrote:
I think that treating shoppers like children allows the MSCs to feel it is OK to pay us as if we were children. Unfortunately, there are so many people who do not value themselves, that it is common.
And based on the writing samples that I have read on these forums, these people write like children too. I can not understand why the companies accept it. Oh well.
Spicy, or someone, once posted that we talk smack here, which differs from our actual work and writings about our work. Don't confuse shop talk with work talk.
Anyway, about children and work. For awhile, a child did the same job that adults have done for years. Mind you, these adults get up extremely early to moonlight. They have other, important, responsible jobs that they perform later in the day. These are not chiselers or people who would take advantage of a kid or anyone else. They have good reputations and integrity. So this kid's parents were looking for a sub. They said, "he is just a kid. We cannot pay the going rate for a sub because he is just a kid". This kid earned at the same rate as the adults in the job, but his parents would not pay a sub for him at the going rate for a sub. GAH! They were impervious to the fact that the costs of subbing were not different for children and adults. Those were given costs that the subs had to factor into their income. I think that some posters have discovered the same situation with mystery shops. The costs to shoppers for traveling to some shops are not changeable, but some MSCs or schedulers expect the shoppers to forego those costs and perform the shops for offered fees or inadequately bonused fees which do not cover the actual costs of travel and/or purchases.
At the same time, I am one who will argue that some people factor too much into the cost of completing a job. I base this upon what I was taught/trained to know about what is work and what is not work. Go figure.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu