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September 19, 2009 02:36AM
Yes, definitely some neighborhoods of Chicago require either grinding several inches off your teeth or having big ones. I remember as an almost 17 year old getting off the train from the mid-South carrying two very heavy suitcases of my stuff for my Freshman year at college. U of C is on the Southside and the closest station was 63rd St, so rather than going all the way in to the main station and taking a cab or a local train down to campus, I decided to get off at 63rd St and walk. I struggled with my bags off the platform only to discover I was in a neighborhood where a blue eyed blonde almost 17 year old female should not be. A huge black fellow stopped me and said, "Honey, you need to be in a cab . . . NOW" He grabbed my bags, flagged a cab and just about shoved me and my stuff inside. Thus was my introduction to Chicago and its neighborhoods. Six blocks away was Ivory Tower Academia. Although I subsequently went to that station when I would go home or return to school, never again did I do it in a light summer dress looking like a displaced Southern Belle.
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September 19, 2009 02:41AM
No offense, but seriously, as the mother of a girl that age, WTF were you doing there unsupervised?
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September 19, 2009 02:54AM
Heading for college smiling smiley And heck, I had taken the train up from the South in the Spring to interview for school and on the way had seen the station marked 63rd St - University of Chicago, so it had seemed kinda odd to ride the train for another 20-30 minutes to get to the main station and then turn around and come back down to campus.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/2009 03:01AM by Flash.
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September 19, 2009 03:05AM
Odd, it seems everyone I encounter online goes to college at 15-16. I don't know anyone IRL who has done that.

Weird observation.
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September 19, 2009 05:10AM
I did not go to college at 15 or 16, but I have had one or two students who were.
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September 19, 2009 01:02PM
Haha, must just be my location then. I have never actually known someone who did. Only online.
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September 21, 2009 04:24AM
poofoo80 Wrote:
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> I also don't like this company's rating system. I
> have done HUNDREDS of shops for them, mainly when
> I was first starting out and trying to build up a
> reputation. My auditor rating took forever to get
> up to 5. Then I had an issue one day, wasn't able
> to complete like 4 gas shops, and my rating
> plummeted down to like 2.5. I e-mailed schedulers
> about this to reschedule and they basically said,
> "Sorry. Someone else already is going to do
> these." I asked if they could fix my rating and
> they brought it up to 3. Whooooooptie do. I will
> say though, my rating is still low, I can't self
> assign, and yet they call me whenever they are
> desperate to have someone reliable complete a last
> minute shop.
>
> I haven't done more than a handful of shops for
> them in the past year. I may start doing the gas
> ones again in the winter when no one else around
> here wants to go out in the snow and the
> commissions are above at least $8.00. I find them
> really easy but $4.00 is a joke.

What if the next time they call you with THEIR urgent problem,
at the higher rate of course, you bargain with them to do the
shop IF they put your rating where it should be?
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September 21, 2009 02:40PM
That does not work. The only shot you have at correcting your rating is to contact their Mystery Shopper Liason/Arbitrator. I did and it worked...winking smiley

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September 23, 2009 02:49AM
Does anyone know how to contact their Shopper Liason. I found an e-mail in one of the forums here for Jen Marsell, but got an auto-reply that she no longer works there. Does anyone know if there is a new contact?
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