On 3/31, a scheduler generated a SASSIE email offering a $5 bonus. I clicked on the SASSIE link in that email to apply for one of the shops. I was assigned the shop on 4/1, less than 24 hours later. Before I went to do the shop yesterday, I noticed that there was no bonus attached to the shop. I emailed the scheduler and offered to do the shop today if she added the promised bonus. She wrote me back and said:
"It was removed from the session before you applied. The bonus did not seem to be doing any good so I removed it and started recruiting without it. I'll add it back to yours first thing in the morning."
I can't swear whether the bonus was removed before I applied. I will give this scheduler the benefit of the doubt because I've known her for over a decade and she has never lied to me AFAIK. However, it just seems strange to me that a scheduler would remove a bonus less than 24 hours after offering it because it "did not seem to be doing any good."
By the way, I clicked on the same link and checked one of the still available shops. The bonus is gone. In other words, the scheduler had just removed the bonus from the job posting instead of deleting it and creating a new one without a bonus. I wonder what she meant by she "started recruiting without [the bonus]." Also, I have not done the shop because the bonus is still not added to it. It is almost noon. I emailed the scheduler and am waiting for a response. It will be kind of a pain to have to drive to the mall to do just this one shop. (I had multiple shops yesterday and it would have been much more convenient to do this shop then.)