If you have a choice between doing one of these and having a finger chopped off, sacrifice the finger. Much less painful.
I do the regular shops for them all the time and they're great because they pay more than most car wash shops. I figured I'd give one of the audits a whirl when it got heavily bonused. Since it involves a reveal after the mystery shop part, my "strategy," or so I thought, was to do one I'm not likely to visit often, so as not to ruin my anonymous status in the locations near home. So I picked one in a town about 60 miles away where i had a few other things going on. Big mistake (more on that later).
It involves at least 60 photos, more like 80 really. The guidelines say you'll be on site about an hour, which is a joke, but I kind of expected that going in. (It ended up being close to two.) The problem is, the MSC wants you to do it on the Presto app, although there is an option to do it on the Sassie platform. In retrospect, I should have printed out the Sassie questionnaire, even though that would have meant about a gazillion pages, and used that as my checklist. Instead, like a dope, I tried to use Presto.
You probably have an idea what comes next. The app immediately started rejecting photos I took within the app. So I tried doing it with my camera app. That works fine with shops like Circle K where there's a finite number of photos you have to remember to take, you just take them and come back to the app later to load them. But with this one, being my first time and involving 80 photos, I needed to go photo by photo. That would have meant 80 times taking a photo, firing up the app again, and waiting while the site loads with that stupid "hi there" gopher and then leaves you nowhere near the question you're trying to answer, leaving you to scroll blindly for that needle in the Presto haystack. I might have withstood the inconvenience but a lot of these were in the wash tunnel, which I had to have them shut down while customers waited.
So I made my next mistake: I decided to work off a crude handwritten photo checklist I'd put together "just in case" of Presto screwups. And wouldn't you know it, my checklist was missing three required photos, which I didn't discover until later when i was loading it on the Satanic Gopher app. So I loaded some dummy photos just to get the report to file.
There was something mentioned in the instructions about going back to get missed photos, but I'm not sure if I want to drive 60 miles and ask to take 3 photos. I guess these are best done near home if you don't mind ruining your "mystery-ness" forever.
Looks like I'm out $30 for the car wash and all that mileage. Bit off more than I could chew. Lesson learned.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/2024 05:15AM by KokoBWare.
I do the regular shops for them all the time and they're great because they pay more than most car wash shops. I figured I'd give one of the audits a whirl when it got heavily bonused. Since it involves a reveal after the mystery shop part, my "strategy," or so I thought, was to do one I'm not likely to visit often, so as not to ruin my anonymous status in the locations near home. So I picked one in a town about 60 miles away where i had a few other things going on. Big mistake (more on that later).
It involves at least 60 photos, more like 80 really. The guidelines say you'll be on site about an hour, which is a joke, but I kind of expected that going in. (It ended up being close to two.) The problem is, the MSC wants you to do it on the Presto app, although there is an option to do it on the Sassie platform. In retrospect, I should have printed out the Sassie questionnaire, even though that would have meant about a gazillion pages, and used that as my checklist. Instead, like a dope, I tried to use Presto.
You probably have an idea what comes next. The app immediately started rejecting photos I took within the app. So I tried doing it with my camera app. That works fine with shops like Circle K where there's a finite number of photos you have to remember to take, you just take them and come back to the app later to load them. But with this one, being my first time and involving 80 photos, I needed to go photo by photo. That would have meant 80 times taking a photo, firing up the app again, and waiting while the site loads with that stupid "hi there" gopher and then leaves you nowhere near the question you're trying to answer, leaving you to scroll blindly for that needle in the Presto haystack. I might have withstood the inconvenience but a lot of these were in the wash tunnel, which I had to have them shut down while customers waited.
So I made my next mistake: I decided to work off a crude handwritten photo checklist I'd put together "just in case" of Presto screwups. And wouldn't you know it, my checklist was missing three required photos, which I didn't discover until later when i was loading it on the Satanic Gopher app. So I loaded some dummy photos just to get the report to file.
There was something mentioned in the instructions about going back to get missed photos, but I'm not sure if I want to drive 60 miles and ask to take 3 photos. I guess these are best done near home if you don't mind ruining your "mystery-ness" forever.
Looks like I'm out $30 for the car wash and all that mileage. Bit off more than I could chew. Lesson learned.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/2024 05:15AM by KokoBWare.
