@bgriffin wrote:
My point is that Coyle looks down on people who do this professionally as being beneath them.
C'mon BG...you are throwing a bit of your personal bias into that statement.
I get it that you are offended at them not being willing to utilize you, but your initial statement above is the reality. They prefer to utilize people that could otherwise be typical guests of a restaurant or resort. Nobody is looking down on anyone else, or feeling like full-time shoppers are beneath them.
In their experience, those who MS for a living have not been the best performers on assignments in the past. End of story.
My personal opinion is that FT shoppers get frustrated with Coyle, and don't perform well, since the pay is not equitable with the work. If you do not appreciate the compensation-in-kind component of the work, it will have little value for you.
Now, it turns out that there are some assignments you would be a good fit for, and those particular assignments ARE desirable to you, so your issue is that you don't fit the overall model of a Coyle shopper and therefore don't have the option to perform the assignments you want from them. The problem as I see it is with the disparity in the industry and the bar being set too low by many other companies...and you just got stuck in the middle of that.