Welp, ACL is being investigated by the California Dept of Industrial Relations

June 13, 2019 01:23AM

@Shop-et-al wrote:

I can comment on one aspect of something. We have multiple IC businesses. For one, we drive close to seventy miles per day almost every day. One day per week, we only drive about ten (or eleven, depending upon the day). If I shop locally, I rarely work and drive only a couple of miles. If I shop at the end of the beloved wide open spaces (and in the process, get my personal happinesss), we drive anywhere from one hundred to five hundred miles.

This is because we are rural, have chosen specific work for the early job, and love the wide open spaces. I do not recommend this. I merely enjoy it (and save money constantly for new tires!).

I know you're gonna complain and say I'm picking on your or whatever, but I have an actual honest question. I skip over 99% of your posts without reading them. I do it because your posts are hard to understand. And I don't mean in an intellectual way (although if I'm being honest I think you try to sound like an "intellectual" whenever possible). Almost every post you talk in circles and riddles and use a lot of words to say mostly nothing. I'm just curious why? Obviously you are free to post however you like, just like I'm free to skip over your posts. But it is curious to me and I was wondering if you could explain it? If not that's fine too. Was just a question.

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June 13, 2019 02:26AM

@bgriffin wrote:

Almost every post you talk in circles and riddles and use a lot of words to say mostly nothing.

I'm not really one who has a right to complain about not being on topic, but I gotta agree and wonder what on earth that particular rant has to do with the topic. Any topic discussed here, that is. I mean..we were talking mileage deductions, I guess.

June 13, 2019 07:06PM

I dont think that mystery shopping company practices and procedures have been evaluated by a major governmental body nationwide or in a high population state in decades. Had they done so the gradual "creep" that has been progressing over the years, where increasingly shoppers are hired to perform tasks unrelated to customer service evaluation, with lower and lower pay and increasing amounts of work.

Despite having signed IC contracts, the State of California may decide to declare those contracts unenforceable, contrary to public policy (minimum wage laws, workers comp regulations, welfare and public assistance laws, health care access, even uneven wealth concentration).

(Edited to add a few public policy issues.)

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June 18, 2019 03:55PM

"Who qualifies as an independent contractor?"

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June 20, 2019 06:33AM

I have some info on the letters. I got one too. It has to do with w2 employees not ics. I have never had any issues with any jobs, been paid on time and for full amount promised. I do know my scheduler had to do some work on vacation to finish closing out the open jobs. I plan to keep doing shops for them until something changes. You get nice bonuses for taking a last minute job someone else missed.

June 23, 2019 12:21AM

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July 30, 2019 05:11AM

Anyone notice ACL schedulers r not forcing u to take a icky shop for a good shop? Like they have been for a long time? Think it has something to do with this?

July 30, 2019 05:24AM

@Tilhtae wrote:

Anyone notice ACL schedulers r not forcing u to take a icky shop for a good shop? Like they have been for a long time? Think it has something to do with this?

They lost the icky client?

July 30, 2019 05:26AM

They are still doing it.

July 30, 2019 12:31PM

I decline, and still get almost any shop that I apply for. Just stand your ground and sat, "I do not do pizza/apartment/gas stations)" Don't berate the shops or the schedulers when you decline a shop and you will probably see the attempts at bribery diminish greatly. I work with 5 ACL schedulers, at last count, and some "ask", I "decline" (not refuse) and that's that. I still do about as many of their hotel shops as rotation permits.

Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel

Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.

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July 30, 2019 02:02PM

I don’t feel bad at all for ACL. They are incredibly stingy. They try to spin it as reimbursement, but it’s just a free report for them. Writing up the report is work. Being more observant than you normally would at dinner is work. That’s why I never took one of their shops.

July 31, 2019 06:55AM

If I decline they move on to someone else. I once had a scheduler tell me another person said they would do two icky shops- and said if I wanted the hotel I had to do 3. When you only get 5 at a time that’s a hard sell. Then it’s not all my choice. You are forcing me by telling me what shops u will pair it with for me to get the one shop I asked for without being forced

July 31, 2019 01:31PM

Are you sure the scheduler had another shopper that would do the icky shops or did they just TELL you?

@Tilhtae wrote:

If I decline they move on to someone else. I once had a scheduler tell me another person said they would do two icky shops- and said if I wanted the hotel I had to do 3. When you only get 5 at a time that’s a hard sell. Then it’s not all my choice. You are forcing me by telling me what shops u will pair it with for me to get the one shop I asked for without being forced

Kim

August 01, 2019 04:22PM

Thanks for the heads up

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