@salisburync wrote:
Ipsos recently sent out a separate email requesting an answer to a specific question on shops (big orange hardware store) done over a month ago. This request asks only one question, but it requires some time to check files for notes, receive and return the email. I received a dozen of these requests. It seems like some token compensation is appropriate. The shops have already been paid, so this is not an editor request for info, just a research request. Am I off base in thinking my time is worth 'something'?
@DrSquash wrote:
@salisburync wrote:
Ipsos recently sent out a separate email requesting an answer to a specific question on shops (big orange hardware store) done over a month ago. This request asks only one question, but it requires some time to check files for notes, receive and return the email. I received a dozen of these requests. It seems like some token compensation is appropriate. The shops have already been paid, so this is not an editor request for info, just a research request. Am I off base in thinking my time is worth 'something'?
Don't most MSCs insist or at least prefer you delete/destroy your notes after you've been paid on the shop?
@myst4au wrote:
Quite the opposite. It is not uncommon for them to want you to retain the records for 6 months or even a year. And for the financial portions, you need to keep them for 7 years after you file the relevant income tax.
@DrSquash wrote:
@myst4au wrote:
Quite the opposite. It is not uncommon for them to want you to retain the records for 6 months or even a year. And for the financial portions, you need to keep them for 7 years after you file the relevant income tax.
The records of what you pay and get paid I can understand. I'm mainly talking about the notes on the details of the shop, which seems to be what the OP was asking about (and what the MSC was asking about, too).