@Shop-et-al wrote:
Goodf or you to give newbies a chance! Even though you do this primarily because of rotation, you always have an opportunity to discover a star or nurture a soon-to-be wonderful shopper.
@ceasesmith wrote:
Too bad Servimer never has shops for me. And I'll go up to (and even sometimes beyond) 400 miles in any direction!
@panama18 wrote:
If I were a scheduler, then In the absence of a good reason not to, I think I would just assign the shop to the first one to apply. Wham, done, on to the next one. Most would work out fine, and the ones that didn't would henceforth fall into the "good reason not to" category.
What actual schedulers actually do, I haven't yet figured out.
@KSSPete wrote:
@panama18 wrote:
If I were a scheduler, then In the absence of a good reason not to, I think I would just assign the shop to the first one to apply. Wham, done, on to the next one. Most would work out fine, and the ones that didn't would henceforth fall into the "good reason not to" category.
What actual schedulers actually do, I haven't yet figured out.
That's not a bad way to get everything assigned quickly (although, EVERYTHING never gets assigned quickly), but you'd be surprised how quickly you have 10 applications for one shop. We almost never know who applied first, because we can't just refresh the application screen all day. There's emails to answer, difficult locations to call shoppers to try to fill, and many of us are working on several accounts at once, sometimes for more than one company.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
Some shoppers would log in immediately after assignments were posted and apply for 100% of the shops with their shopping radius. While it may seem convenient to assign all of those 100 shops to 1 shopper, that would probably be disastrous.
@bgriffin wrote:
@SteveSoCal wrote:
Some shoppers would log in immediately after assignments were posted and apply for 100% of the shops with their shopping radius. While it may seem convenient to assign all of those 100 shops to 1 shopper, that would probably be disastrous.
Why? That's usually how I work. I get all of a particular shop in an area (and if possible 2 or 3 types of shops) and fill in from there. That's the only way to make this profitable.
@KSSPete wrote:
@panama18 wrote:
If I were a scheduler, then In the absence of a good reason not to, I think I would just assign the shop to the first one to apply. Wham, done, on to the next one. Most would work out fine, and the ones that didn't would henceforth fall into the "good reason not to" category.
What actual schedulers actually do, I haven't yet figured out.
That's not a bad way to get everything assigned quickly (although, EVERYTHING never gets assigned quickly), but you'd be surprised how quickly you have 10 applications for one shop. We almost never know who applied first, because we can't just refresh the application screen all day. There's emails to answer, difficult locations to call shoppers to try to fill, and many of us are working on several accounts at once, sometimes for more than one company.
You need to make sure the shop is completed, and correctly. The first time helps. So we have to be selective.
**Edited to say... It may seem easy, but I work more than 40 hours per week, at least 6 days per week (often 7). Just last night, I got a text at 2:30am. That shop was assigned at 2:32am. It's not as easy as just picking the first one.