@MFJohnston wrote:
I would not want employee status at all!l.
I'm not able to guarantee that every MSC would be structured the way my previous employment-based one was, but a lot of your assumptions are not correct about the way it worked for me:
-I worked 8-10 hours a week, which was just 2 shops per week.
-I was able to submit a schedule of the days I wanted to work at the beginning of the month.
-I was able to modify the schedule as needed and decline locations I did not want to go to.
-I was able to negotiation bonuses for shops that were further away or in bad neighborhoods.
-I was free to work for other MSCs and even combine shops.
I aim to never miss a deadline or make a mistake, but extenuating circumstances happen and after more than 15 years of doing this, I have made a few mistakes and had some other issues crop up that prevented me from completing shops. Standard MSCs have pretty much been unforgiving, to the extend of me once having to pay for a night at a hotel in NYC for simply not getting one employee name. Bestmark once declined a lunch assignment for me because the day after a daylight savings time change, my receipt was off by an hour!
I have also gotten sick, had flights delayed, computers crashed, had stores closed and a bunch of other things that resulted in me losing money as a contractor. This is what I was used to, so I was shocked as an employee when I made an honest mistake, transposed 2 numbers and shopped the wrong location, and the scheduler simply readjusted the schedule to give me that location, then included my time and mileage for the mistake!
In the 10 years I shopped in Nevada, I was never once asked to take an assignment that I did not want. I was paid for training sessions, send checks in advance for cash outlay on casino shops, and treated with respect.
Some people are better working for themselves, which I understand, but my only recourse with ACL was to stop working for them, which I did. That certainly has not been a deterrent in their abusive business practices, so I welcome a reclassification for them. Just like shoppers, not all MSCs are equal.
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