Sinclair has me steamed

I was accepting a pizza shop today but hadn't yet done the assessment, so the scheduler told me to do the assessment and then she would assign me the location straightaway.

It took me about 30 minutes and I emailed her back to let her know I'd finished. Then, some time later, I got an email that the location had been assigned to someone else but that a similar shop at the same location was open for the same date--tonight.

I go into the Sinclair job board and look at the available shops before I do the assessment, and guess what:

It's gone, too.

There are two other locations, but they're outside the area I'm able to get to.

So, I guess I'll be cooking dinner tonight. As I found out unexpectedly at 4:15pm.

Thanks, Sinclair.

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If she told you that you had the job and to go ahead and do it, I would raise holy h*ll because you were contracted verbally, have the time and money invested and so are ready, willing and able to fulfill your part of this verbal contract.

Do you mean "assessment", as in the online briefing and testing they make you do and pass before giving you the assignment? Or do you mean "assessment" as in actually going and doing the shop?

Because if it's the first one, I'd be PO'd, definitely and absolutely... but not as seriously as I would be if I'd actually gone and done the shop itself on the scheduler's word, and spent money I wouldn't have spent if not for the shop reimbursement. Which, if I recall, has happened to some shoppers who have told about it on here.

ninamason Wrote:
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> I was accepting a pizza shop today but hadn't yet
> done the assessment, so the scheduler told me to
> do the assessment and then she would assign me the
> location straightaway.

<snipped just for brevity>

> So, I guess I'll be cooking dinner tonight. As I
> found out unexpectedly at 4:15pm.

Practitioner of the Nerdly Arts.

The former, Storm. I'd previously done the assessment for the pretzel shop but hadn't lived in an area that had one of those pizza places near it, so hadn't had a reason to do it yet.

And I'm not sure it's a good idea to raise holy h-e-doublehockeysticks as we used to say in the dim dark days of the 90s. This would have been my first assignment with them.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/03/2014 02:38AM by ninamason.

Many Sinclair assignments require you to do their online test for that particular client. (it has always been that way).

If it takes you 30 minutes to test, meanwhile, another shopper pulls it off the board, because that shopper already took the assessment prior to you, and was able to get the shop in 30 seconds or so, then that is how it has always worked.

The scheduler should NOT have promised you that job, knowing you were not tested.

She then told you there was another one available, but another shopper sucked that one off the board as well.

Lesson learned: Do your testing and then apply. It has happened to me too. Frustrated? No. I know that is Sinclair's MOP.

Ah... well at least you hadn't actually spent any $$$ yet!

Yes, the scheduler should NOT have promised it to you like that and then pulled it away like Lucy to Charlie Brown with the football. As I said, super annoying, but since you're not actually out money or time doing the shop, I wouldn't raise heck, either. Just remember you can't trust anything they tell you from now on, unless it's actually in writing.

And I think SunnyDays means, "SOP".

At least now you'll be ready to go when another assignment for that client comes up.

And Sinclair doesn't even *have* a pizza client where I am! *grrr!*

ninamason Wrote:
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> The former, Storm. I'd previously done the
> assessment for the pretzel shop but hadn't lived
> in an area that had one of those pizza places near
> it, so hadn't had a reason to do it yet.
>
>
> And I'm not sure it's a good idea to raise holy
> h-e-doublehockeysticks as we used to say in the
> dim dark days of the 90s. This would have been my
> first assignment with them.

Practitioner of the Nerdly Arts.

Flash Wrote:
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> If she told you that you had the job and to go
> ahead and do it, I would raise holy h*ll because
> you were contracted verbally, have the time and
> money invested and so are ready, willing and able
> to fulfill your part of this verbal contract.

That argument will never hold water in this business. Everyone knows: Never do anything until it is written and printed.

David Hall, CHFC

MSPA Gold & "UE" certified Shopping since April 2012 Arkansas, and southern half of United States.

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