Have you ever stopped a shop because it was too little pay for the amount of work?

As there are new members of the forum, I decided to again share an experience from 15+ yrs. ago.

I accepted an assignment to shop a Chase table in a Quiznoz sandwich eatery. My job was to determine if a college student, hired by the bank to hand out credit card apps near a university, was on the job. The pay was $15+$5, with an, never extended in the past, option to snap one pic for an extra $5.

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I was absolutely dreading the card project. I had done it in the past and was "sent back" to a store. Gas money later I was not happy because when I got to the store, nothing changed. BUT I kept seeing the shops come up and decided to try again because I like the company. Turned out to be pretty easy! I went and signed up for more!

I once gave up on a shop, one I had done several times previously. Apparently Verizon had some kind of system failure and there was no signal in most of my state. It was also shortly after Ipsos aquired MaritzCX and the Sassie website was a mess and kept dumping me out and losing all of my work several times per hour. After 8 hours of trying uo upload the pics and finish the report, it was 2 am, I was sitting in a Lowe's parking lot in a city that wasn't close to home, and the Sassie site dumped me out again, even with a good strong internet connection on my laptop on Lowe's wifi. I said several cuss words and realized that i had just wasted 12 hours total to do a 30 minute job and I was mad. I sent an email to the scheduler explained everything I had gone through, closed the laptop and drove over an hour to go home.

I decided to take the bait and signed up for some "easy 10 minute" jobs from Customer Impact. Upon receiving the guidelines/directions I saw the NINETEEN step process which included needing to occupy the time of a store associate and scan in some items to see what prices showed in their system and then take pictures of the cash register display. Ten minutes, yeah sure ok. I emailed the project manager and told her that there was absolutely no chance that this was a 10 minute job, and that I couldn't do the job for what they were paying. I got a quick replay of, "I'll remove those from your shop list." I still get several emails from Customer Impact per day, and am still live in their system.

My situation was a little different. I signed up for a virtual daycare evaluation. The form I had to fill out was for an in person shop. When the MSC told me I did the wrong form (I was not at fault), they sent me the correct one. I requested an additional fee and got it.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

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