I really liked working with Erika. She's the only scheduler that I have worked with from AA. I did a shop for them, and the report was long, and very detailed. However, that one was a flat pay rate. I had no expenses so there was no reimbursement, but after I did the report she was gracious enough to recommend me for other companies, because she liked the job I did on the report. That being said, I do see a lot of their shops that will pay a MORE than fair reimbursement, and some of them, say... you have to go somewhere and they reimburse for three people but you're only required to take two, you get the reimbursement on most of them for the three people in addition to the actual fee. Sometimes they'll also give you a full reimbursement allowance for food/activities for up to three people, and then you get to keep whatever additional you didn't use. So, it seems to be (most often) flat rates for them, and if you don't use all of the flat rate for the reimbursement, then you get to keep the overage so you don't actually only get paid the fee. They've very detailed about this in the guidelines for each shop, so just take a look. I find using a recorder, and emailing yourself a copy of the interaction that you can look up on the phone just BEFORE the actual specific interaction takes place helps, and then I either text myself immediately, so I know what the time is, or using the recorder I'll hold my phone up to my ear and step away like I've got a phone call where I just say, "Joe Smith, drink stand, offered upgrade, brown hair, 2:55 PM, very friendly, greeted warmly," etc. It's faster than texting and if you get a "recorder" that records the time of day rather than the time elapsed you can easily find where each thing is especially if you text it to yourself. You can just skip to that portion of the audio.
I did a casino shop (not for AA) yesterday and was fussing with listening to the recorder to find the interactions. Three hour shop and I was searching through the whole thing to find that info, and as it turns out, you really couldn't hear anything but the music and my loud mouth. I didn't tell myself that information, sadly, yesterday and man was I sorry I didn't. LOL. Lesson learned.
But, anyway, their amusement park stuff usually gets you a good number of tickets. I think they usually give you four. If you and only one other person go, then I think you can use the other two for a different day. Every shop seems to differ, though. They've definitely got a couple of shops that I want to do in a BIG way. Fun times.