You know you're friendly with your editor when...

You get an email at 3 am asking if you're pregnant.

Yep. Got called to do a drugstore beauty counter shop today. It required a small reimbursed general purchase, just to get a receipt. I used it towards buying a pregnancy test. (It had a try-me-free mail-in rebate too, BTW!)

Submitted my report around 8:00 pm. Just woke up to go to work, and saw that I'd got an email from an editor who I've grown very friendly with throughout the years, across various follow-ups. The email said "Great report! <Clarification about specific beauty samples offered> By the way, how did the test go? Good news, I hope?"

Edit: I am, by the way. Pregnant, that is. Here's to hoping that it's a baby and not another banshee.

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Congratulations!!! Now you know why you weren't feeling well.

Kim

The not feeling well came in handy that last week of September, as far as bonuses. I was turning down shop call after shop call, because I felt like absolute crap, and they'd call back and offer more.

Kid's already earning its' keep.

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Bbird, congratulations on the baby banshee. Wonderful!

Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.

Congratulations!

There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

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I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

YAY!!! BABIES ARE THE BEST THINGS EVER!!!!!

Congratulations, BBird! Very good news.

You know you're friendly with your editor when...he emails you in the wee hours to comment on your report. He told me that he was laughing so hard that he could not help but let me know. He said he wanted to go there and pull the guy up and tell him to get up.

I reported on a GSR who was seated on a chair that was too high for him. When I approached, the telephone rang and without standing, he tried to reach the counter where the phone was. The ringing stopped. So he asked how he could help me. The phone rang again. So he tried to reach it again and he almost fell down. He managed to roll his chair (after a few tries) nearer the counter to answer the phone. Then he rolled it far again while he talked to me. He remained seated on the chair. The evaluation required that he stood up as a customer approached the desk.

I learned a lot about mystery shopping from that editor.

they email you and say that your review of them and their company on this site was so nice that it made them cry

true story

shopping north west PA and south west ny

Rising, that IS funny! Maybe he didn't want to get out of the chair because he figured he wouldn't be able to get back up on it again. I'm picturing a co-working lifting him up and setting him on it.

There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

haha...cute story, and congratulations, have a healthy baby!!

Live consciously....

Congratulations BB. Better the baby than the owl in the bedroom.

Banshee...hahaha...Love it! Congrats!

That's wonderful! Congratulations to you!

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Congrats to you! Babies are wonderful!

It is always great to hear editors like this exist. I am lucky to work with some amazing ones with Intelli-Shop and am thankful for that.

I admit, I still get stressed out though when reports take a while to get feedback on. I work really hard and know I worry to much but there is nothing better then that email that says you have received a shop grade. For me, it honestly better then the you got paid email. I know the you got paid email will come eventually, but the review score email is what causes stress.

Congrats Bbird!! My first was a banshee, but my second was sweet and wonderful. I love my banshee and the good son equally, but I could never live with the banshee like I live with my son! LOL

Oh, the Banshee is 31 and my son is 28! And then, there's the Grandmonster!! :-D

Congratulations Bbird!

Congrats! I live behind a day care center and am well aware of banshees. Amazing the decibel of sounds that can come from those tiny mouths. I remember watching my sweet baby girl sleep and then she would wake up and you would think a mass murderer was in the home! Luckily it is only for a period of their lives - we hope - haha. Seriously though why do some babies cry so much and there are others who don't make a peep. I was a labor and delivery nurse for many years of my life and some babies come directly from the womb crying while others are content. Another mystery of life and babies.

Congratulations Bbird!

No news s good news, so when I don't hear from an Editor, I know I did a job well done!!

Live consciously....

Haha! Or at least one they could correct without contacting you.

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I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

At least he didn't ask you if you wanted to get pregnant...

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