A mystery shopping company I work with sent me a message asking if I could do some phone shops by a certain date about 2 weeks from now. Limit is 2 calls a day. It asked how many can you take? As in the past they only gave me 5-8, which was much more doable over a 2-3 week period, I said am available and can do as many as you can assign me figuring I would get 5 or 8 max. Apparently no great takers as the list I got assigned me 17 and there were other lists with 18 or 20 calls not assigned as of yet. So, people apparently are not applying.
When I got the assignment it asked are you accepting and how many. I foolishly said "I accept all of them." I did 2 today. Limit is 2 a day. They required multiple calls to get thru to a live person in a distant area code and even with star 67 I wonder if they know I am not local as I do not have the accent they all have.
I find myself getting really stressed out over having so many to do- some days I am not feeling well and the stress of having to call sometimes several times to reach someone and report on a near daily basis has become a bit much. I found myself not sleeping last nite thinking of all the calls I had to be making trying to figure out how many calls each would take to get through.
My husband has told me this morning that he can see that I am getting too worked up over his- it has been a very bad few months in my house with my husband being in the hospital and still not well as well as some serious family problems involving my son and his family. I figured phone shops- easy- no travel- but having to call over and over to reach a live person in a different area code has been stressful. Fact is I do not need the money even if I never did a shop for this company ever again. The company loves me as I am reliable and write good reports.
Today my husband told me that he would really like me to just cancel this batch as he sees me getting all worked up over it and tossing and turning at night. I wake up at night thinking of how I will fit these all into my life. I was up at 2 AM last nite thinking about getting up early to do the 2 calls today.
To be honest I do not want to do anymore this time around.
I obviously cannot tell the scheduler I am getting stressed and not sleeping over this but that is the case.
I do not want her to be angry with me but to be honest it is taking its toll on me mentally and physically.
In talking to a friend today she told me she can tell when I am getting stressed over things and it is not good for my health. She suggested I contact the scheduler and say that a "personal family issue" came up over the weekend and that I will not be able to do this batch of shops but hope to be able to work with the company in the future. Another friend suggested that I say I have family coming for a visit next week and am unable to do the shops and apologize as the visit was not anticipated when I applied.
What do you suggest? Any other suggestions? I am not an employee not like I am flaking on a reak ob but I also do not want to get blacklisted or cancelled for not doing these shops.
I am not sure what explanation I need to give. I am not flaking- they were only assigned yesterday and I did 2 today but I do not to do the rest. I want to give them time to reassign.
Please give me any advice- I am desperate as this has me really in a tizzy!