I always fret when I do a job that's new to me, but in this case, I'm really kicking myself for taking it! It's a gas station/C-store mystery shop-turned-revealed inspection, which I've never done. I've done C-store and gas station mystery shops only, never a full site inspection with reveal.
I feel like I'm so out of my element and in over my head. I took it because the pay was finally up to where I thought it'd be worth it, but so far I've spent well over an hour downloading materials and taking the quiz (3 times to pass).
I know a lot of you do many of these and enjoy them. But my head is spinning after looking at all the guidelines. How much of these do you actually print out? Just the data-collection forms and the letters? Do you print out the "reminders" letter? I can view the rest of the guidelines on my phone, but maybe it's better to print them out? Who prints out 50+ pages of instructions, though? Some of the photos in the guides for signs and advertising are so damned small, you can't read them. Some of the terms are totally unfamiliar to me (they were written, apparently, for people who've done station inspections and audits before).
How do you remember everything without having to look at the instructions constantly?
Gah! I wish I hadn't taken it, but I'll see it through. I'm really freaked out, though. Sadly, there aren't enough of these in my area so that I can learn on this one and get more in the future to amortize the upfront time for a better ROI. But that would assume I'll even do the first one correctly. Which I'm doubtful about.
Any tips would be appreciated; thanks!
I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.