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February 27, 2020 07:42PM
I'm acclimated to getting such offers via email, but not text message....

I received a text this morning offering me $23 - including a $10 bonus (or best offer!) to conduct a retail shop in Beverly Hills, CA TODAY. That's all fine and dandy, but the address is 1,123 miles from my front door.

I was *almost* feeling snarky enough to offer to do it tomorrow for $3000. (I figured I'd need a last-minute flight, hotel, rental car, and food.)

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February 27, 2020 07:47PM
If it came from a scheduler who’s first initial is R just delete it. She sends me offers for San Francisco and then asks, what will it take ?
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February 27, 2020 07:53PM
That's the one. smiling smiley

You don't think she'd give me $3000?

@SoCalMama wrote:

If it came from a scheduler who’s first initial is R just delete it. She sends me offers for San Francisco and then asks, what will it take ?

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February 27, 2020 07:53PM
Well San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle are on the same coast, LOL...of course they must be all very close to each other!!!
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February 27, 2020 08:16PM
@MFJohnston wrote:

That's the one. smiling smiley

You don't think she'd give me $3000?

@SoCalMama wrote:

If it came from a scheduler who’s first initial is R just delete it. She sends me offers for San Francisco and then asks, what will it take ?
I explained to her the distance in kilometers, but she was very snarky.
I suggest you ignore her.

ETA
Beverly Hills is reasonable for me, but yet she sends me northern ca.
Somebody should send her a map.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/27/2020 08:18PM by SoCalMama.
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February 28, 2020 12:55AM
I get emails like that all the time, but thank goodness I don't get texts for locations 100 or more miles away. It's really weird that US schedulers don't have a better grasp of geography. If they want someone to do a shop in Toledo and can't find anyone in that city or nearby (Toledo is on the other side of the state, NW corner), why not hit up shoppers in Michigan? It's closer than I am, as I am in the NE corner near PA.

At least they aren't texting me. That would piss me off.

Additionally, does anyone else besides me find it rude for schedulers to text without asking permission first?
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February 28, 2020 02:06AM
I get a weekly text from a scheduler that I've never worked with for a company I've not worked with in a decade and it's the same shop in varying locations with the same darn fee every week with the same "Sorry for duplicate texts" at the end. I have an Android, so this one message actually comes across as three messages
several times in a row.

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February 28, 2020 05:59AM
Yeppers. I live in Nebraska ("NE" ), and I really think some schedulers see "NE" and think
"New England", or "North East".

smiling smiley

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/28/2020 06:00AM by ceasesmith.
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February 28, 2020 05:25PM
I really don't mind emails telling me about opportunities across the country. I do sometimes travel, so knowing where other opportunities are can be helpful. However, text messages are more invasive. I only like receiving texts (or calls) for shops that have a proper bonus attached. (And, no, $10 is not a proper bonus.) Otherwise, I just want an email.

The way I see it: a more intrusive contact method should be reserved for shops that are urgent enough that the MSC is willing/able to put their money behind an offer - including money that would compensate me for travel.

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February 28, 2020 06:34PM
MF if you get this job, you can stay at my hotel, uh I mean house, and we can split the last $1000. I will even pick you up at the airport.

@MFJohnston wrote:

I'm acclimated to getting such offers via email, but not text message....

I received a text this morning offering me $23 - including a $10 bonus (or best offer!) to conduct a retail shop in Beverly Hills, CA TODAY. That's all fine and dandy, but the address is 1,123 miles from my front door.

I was *almost* feeling snarky enough to offer to do it tomorrow for $3000. (I figured I'd need a last-minute flight, hotel, rental car, and food.)
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