@pinkonlypink wrote:
I began shopping back in August and I mentioned in a post that my evaluations/reports were taking hours to complete and that I believed that once I had some experience it wouldn’t take me as long.
Well here it is November - 40 shops later - and I still need 60 – 90 minutes to complete an evaluation with narrative.
I get great comments. All except 4 of my 40 are 10s - two 9s, one 8 and the abhorrent one I received because of technical difficulties.
But DUDE! Every single report is like writing a mother forking AP English essay and I get tired of thinking of ways to truly convey my experience in neutral terms.
@PasswordNotFound wrote:
It's the shops you're choosing. I write slowly. Even with decades of MS experience behind me, it still takes me 4x as long as the scheduler tells me it will.
-1 for each occurrence, depending upon whether your report was edited in-house or outsourced -- you didn't use a descriptive word for the smile. ;-) I have unfortunately had that comment.@walesmaven wrote:
"As I approached the attendant/SA/cashier/valet made good (fleeting) eye contact, smiled and greeted me in a pleasant manner, saying, 'blah, blah, blah.'" .
@isaiah58 wrote:
I've noticed several MSCs show concerns over similar narratives every time. Though I save copies of every narrative, I am no longer following them as a hard template. I am spending some extra time, using what I have learned over the years, to write new narratives from scratch. Looking back at my old narratives, I see how I have improved and discover the issues the editors had to fix.
@Kakita987 wrote:
@isaiah58 wrote:
I've noticed several MSCs show concerns over similar narratives every time. Though I save copies of every narrative, I am no longer following them as a hard template. I am spending some extra time, using what I have learned over the years, to write new narratives from scratch. Looking back at my old narratives, I see how I have improved and discover the issues the editors had to fix.
Do you fix the old ones, so you have "good" examples to look back on?
@SoCalMama wrote:
@pinkonlypink wrote:
I began shopping back in August and I mentioned in a post that my evaluations/reports were taking hours to complete and that I believed that once I had some experience it wouldn’t take me as long.
Well here it is November - 40 shops later - and I still need 60 – 90 minutes to complete an evaluation with narrative.
I get great comments. All except 4 of my 40 are 10s - two 9s, one 8 and the abhorrent one I received because of technical difficulties.
But DUDE! Every single report is like writing a mother forking AP English essay and I get tired of thinking of ways to truly convey my experience in neutral terms.
(I pulled your questions from your quote)
Here are my questions:
Am I still a beginner and, as such, I should expect my writing to “improve”?
I think that with time, you know how to write what is needed. It is not necessarily "better."
Do experienced shoppers get scores of 10 for 90% of their shops?
Yes, at least 90% of my shops are 10's, except Confero of course.
How the heck do I dumb down/stop overthinking/write without a bloody thesaurus
and still get a 10? Or is a score of 8 or 9 still acceptable?
A 9 is OK. I don't get a lot of 8's. Some companies give examples of a narrative for their shops (Service Check does this, so does Coyle). Follow the format. Don't make it harder than it needs to be. I have never done one in almost 20 years, but I have heard that apartment shops have long narratives and pay around $25. That's too much work for me for that amount of pay.
Good luck
"Dragnet." Advice from that 1950's TV classic's has been good for at least 50 years. Unless the MSC wants excruciating detail, give 'em the facts based on the great notes you will learn to take.@MA Smith wrote:
Don't remember the movie, but the line was something like this...the facts mam, just the facts.