@SoCalMama wrote:
This happens to women a lot. Not paying it forward necessarily... Maybe you were attractive to him?
I had to quit doing bar shops at BJ's for awhile. I had to re-do them more than once. Guys were picking up my tab.
Some guy kept buying my drinks in Miami Beach too. It was an integrity shop. Super annoying, since I wanted to get out of there and get some sleep.
@KarenMSW wrote:
I had a customer (60+ years old so not an idiot kid either) who flipped me off
That exact same thing has happened to me on a grocery shop before, too!! What can you do?? Just listen, and then ask the associate, "Is that person right?" or "can you add any other details?" or something like that!@pegleg2000 wrote:
I was doing a grocery store shop and asked the butcher the required question and a customer answered it before the butcher could.
@eyelove2shop wrote:
Ha! This is so funny to me. I'm usually offered free drinks when i'm having drinks on my own tab but never when i'm "working".
You must be as cute as bgriffin.@SoCalDude wrote:
So Mom and I show up and we start talking to another guy and his trophy babe at the bar. He wanted to pay our (small) tab., I said he didn't have to do so ut he insisted so he did it.
WHOA!!! Wonder what the MSC thought of that when they read the report about THAT interaction!!@Aquiest wrote:
I did a grocery store last week and asked the required question at the deli. The store employee referred me to the customer behind me and said she would know better than he would.
@Eric in Tampa wrote:
While conducting a restaurant evaluation earlier this week, I was sort of taken aback by a customer that did an incredibly good thing for the purpose of benefiting me, even though it was almost at my detriment. What did this customer do? He "paid it forward", meaning that he paid for my meal without telling me. The server indicated this at an unexpected moment. A major aspect of the shop was to obtain a receipt. When I went to pay for a dessert just for the sake of obtaining a receipt, the customer paid for it AGAIN. I nonetheless walked out ofbthe restaurant without a receipt, and with that feeling of defeat due to the possibility of re-doing this shop.
I called my scheduler immediately, and explained what had happened. Given that this was a video shop (thankfully), she indicated that the client would understand this unusual and rare occurrence (it was very rare for me). She noted that in this situation, turning in the shop without a receipt would be okay.
My lesson on this day- when in an unusual situation, always, always, ALWAYS contact your scheduler if occurences such as this happen.
@MSF wrote:
So this totally made me think of that post from several months ago that sparked quite a debate. The shopper had her fine dining meal paid for by an acquaintance and was told by the MSC that she would receive the meager shop fee only, not the reimbursement (which the shopper had factored in as the lion's share of the compensation for performing the shop). So my question to you is, how did the MSC compensate you? Did they reimburse you for the meal and pay you a fee?
@Eric in Tampa wrote:
While conducting a restaurant evaluation earlier this week, I was sort of taken aback by a customer that did an incredibly good thing for the purpose of benefiting me, even though it was almost at my detriment. What did this customer do? He "paid it forward", meaning that he paid for my meal without telling me. The server indicated this at an unexpected moment. A major aspect of the shop was to obtain a receipt. When I went to pay for a dessert just for the sake of obtaining a receipt, the customer paid for it AGAIN. I nonetheless walked out ofbthe restaurant without a receipt, and with that feeling of defeat due to the possibility of re-doing this shop.
I called my scheduler immediately, and explained what had happened. Given that this was a video shop (thankfully), she indicated that the client would understand this unusual and rare occurrence (it was very rare for me). She noted that in this situation, turning in the shop without a receipt would be okay.
My lesson on this day- when in an unusual situation, always, always, ALWAYS contact your scheduler if occurences such as this happen.