@cammikun wrote:
I originally started this thread to vent my frustration at the ridiculously long and tedious instructions, tests, and reports that GfK required for some of the shops.
It was my hope that GfK or someone affiliated with the company would see the thread and comments and at least consider the feedback.
Some of the shops were eventually bonused $50 to $100. That made them fair for the work involved.
My thanks to everyone who gave thoughtful feedback and made this a great thread.
I'm not so thrilled to see unsupported comments involving swords and ego.
I would like to thank Dante for letting these comments roll off him like water on a duck's back.
I don't agree with everything that Dante writes, but I appreciate his input and respect him for contributing.
Please consider that schedulers are not the company, they are part of the team.
@cammikun wrote:
I originally started this thread to vent my frustration at the ridiculously long and tedious instructions, tests, and reports that GfK required for some of the shops.
It was my hope that GfK or someone affiliated with the company would see the thread and comments and at least consider the feedback.
Some of the shops were eventually bonused $50 to $100. That made them fair for the work involved.
My thanks to everyone who gave thoughtful feedback and made this a great thread.
I'm not so thrilled to see unsupported comments involving swords and ego.
I would like to thank Dante for letting these comments roll off him like water on a duck's back.
I don't agree with everything that Dante writes, but I appreciate his input and respect him for contributing.
Please consider that schedulers are not the company, they are part of the team.
@parkcitybrian wrote:
I see that there seems to be a lot of "warm and fuzzy" posters and "aw, shucks, gee whiz" type folks on this blog but the reality is that unless we "question authority" nothing seems to change/get done...i.e. the $3.00 shops that wayyyy tooo many of you snap up. Grow some cajones, folks.
@pammie8223 wrote:
I left them alone when I couldn't get a scheduler to respond. They are probably great for some people but for me it wasn't working out.
@LisaSTL wrote:
What are these rewards you speak of that are so much more valuable than the pay? Just like GFK and the clients we serve, I am in business to make money with no altruistic motives. For me there is absolutely nothing more valuable than the profits.
And why do you suggest we must take the bad with the good? While part and parcel of being an employee, not so for independent contractors. We are free to pick and choose. Implying otherwise might suggest a relationship that doesn't exist and that most MSCs do not want, that of mystery shopper as employee.
@sharpist wrote:
If I were a GFK manage r following this, I would step in and counsel Dante regarding the damage he is doing to the company. I have never seen another scheduler express themselves so abrasively. The overwhelming majority I have worked with are true professionals.
@roflwofl wrote:
Those who take the GOOD and the BAD, as assigned, are called employees. Employees are assigned job duties and they do good and bad, and they are paid for coming to work and for doing the job, whether they do it right or they do it wrong. Independent contractors are in business to make money. A successful independent contractor assesses jobs and determines which are good jobs for them and which are bad jobs for them. Then they take the good jobs. My good jobs may be different from another shopper's good jobs and my bad jobs may be different from another shopper's bad jobs. But a smart independent contractor doesn't wildly take all the jobs a company would like them to take, both good and bad. Business is business. If GFK wants me to take a job, there has to be something in it for me.......... and I'm not talking about taking bad jobs with the good to make them happy.
@parkcitybrian wrote:
@roflwofl wrote:
Those who take the GOOD and the BAD, as assigned, are called employees. Employees are assigned job duties and they do good and bad, and they are paid for coming to work and for doing the job, whether they do it right or they do it wrong. Independent contractors are in business to make money. A successful independent contractor assesses jobs and determines which are good jobs for them and which are bad jobs for them. Then they take the good jobs. My good jobs may be different from another shopper's good jobs and my bad jobs may be different from another shopper's bad jobs. But a smart independent contractor doesn't wildly take all the jobs a company would like them to take, both good and bad. Business is business. If GFK wants me to take a job, there has to be something in it for me.......... and I'm not talking about taking bad jobs with the good to make them happy.
Exactly and another well-written and thought-out posting. We are not in it to make the schedulers, etc. happy campers. If it suits our purpose(s) and they are happy campers as a result well then, it's a win-win. GFK schedulers who are posting on this site just DON'T GET IT and I'm thinking that the GFK powers-to-be are advising them, and rightfully- so, to "put a sock in it".
@LisaSTL wrote:
"Some of them are registered on here, but most are so busy working that they don't have time to post under one name (let alone 4 or 5)."
Really Dante? So those of us taking time to post aren't busy enough? What's your excuse?