Well, knock me over with a feather! I learned, thanks to my scheduler, that my shop has now been accepted and is on the current pay statement! Will wonders never cease?
I'd received a mass email from the editor a couple of weeks ago indicating that several shoppers had had their shops excluded, but that the MSC was reviewing these and was in contact with the client. The email said that shoppers would be advised of the results, but since I never got a follow-up email, and since the editor didn't reply to my emails, and since the shop kept showing as "hold pay," I assumed this was a done deal. The shop also had gone back up on the job board and appeared to have been taken by someone, so....
Anyway, I'm very happy, and it appears that even though I didn't receive a reply, someone there read my emails and/or was indeed taking a closer look at these rejected shops and finding that some of them were done according to guidelines, even if the guidelines weren't quite what the client wanted. It still would be nice to have contact information readily available for this MSC, though.
I've learned a lot over the years I've been doing this, and have more to learn, but one thing that's been recurrent all this time is that guidelines and surveys are too often poorly written, are ambiguous or contradictory, don't anticipate a situation that seems likely, and so on. I still don't get why MSCs don't do focus groups of experienced shoppers for feedback on what may escape them but would be obvious to a shopper.
I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2021 05:22PM by BirdyC.