OMG! I SHOULD have checked the forum before agreeing to perform the Swedish furniture store shop!! That's what I get for jumping on - what looked like - a juicy shop!
A little more information here for the uninitiated:
* You must perform 23 separate evaluations in the store
* 20 of the evaluations require a FULL NARRATIVE + a FULL/EXACT DESCRIPTION of EACH employee encountered!
* You must time each encounter with Minutes AND Seconds
* The shop evaluation is 32 pages long - wait until you start filling it in with your narratives!
* This company pays 3 months + 15 days after you submit your Invoice...invoices are submitted at the end of the month, so if you perform a job on the first of the month, it could take 104+ days to get paid.
And the biggest whopper:
If you mess up this monstrous report, you risk not getting paid!
I calculated the following for those who still think they want to cut their teeth on this shop:
* Each department requires the shopper to stay in the area 10 minutes waiting for a co-worker to appear if one is not immediately visible/available in the department being shopped. If you go on a busy weekend day (like I dumbly did) then you could be spending 200 minutes (more than 3 hours!) just waiting for staff to show up before you can even START the shop in that department.
* If each active interaction/evaluation portion of the shop only takes 10 minutes (snort! it takes much longer!) then you have a minimum of 200 minutes (read: more than 3 hours!) of interaction/evaluation time in order to simply gather the data for this shop.
* If it only takes you 10 minutes to fill in the form & write your full narrative for each section, then it will take you more than 200 minutes just to fill out the online form. Is there anybody out there who can write a full narrative with an EXACT employee description in 10 minutes??
As they say:
Payment for a Swedish furniture store mystery shop: $5/hr AT BEST
Lesson learned: Priceless!!