Mystery shopping is great training for all career paths.
I wish that WE would learn from hotel and restaurant employees, and start refusing to take the chicken-feed shops offered by MSPs.
Let's let those stupid "$2 Bonus for an Easy Shop!" spammy emails fall into the Trash folder with no regrets, ignore the whiny schedulers who cajole and/or vaguely threaten you to take $8 gas stations, and watch the MSPs who underbid contracts fold. They are STRUGGLING right now to fill those single-digit shops - DON'T DO THEM.
Let those awful companies fold - I'm serious here - and let the contracts go to professional organizations who pay decent fees on time like clockwork - which shows respect for their shopper base. If you can't afford to pay your shoppers what they're worth, on time, you're a hobbyist, not a businessperson.
We have SO much power and control at this moment. If we can take a big hint from the very people that we evaluate - the fast food, hospitality, retail workers of America - and refuse to accept anything below what we are worth - we can absolutely, definitely, raise our fees.
((walking off, singing the theme from "Les Miserables."
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/2021 04:06PM by ColoKate63.