Bait and Switch Scheduler

I saw a job posted on a board with RBG. I applied for it and assumed it would be assigned because every job that I apply for with them is accepted. The scheduler emails me that the $30 bonus that was attached to the job is not available to me since I live close to the location. Why was it posted on my board as an available job then? This feels like a bait and switch. I was told that the job was available to me with zero bonus. Is this a new thing for RBG? It feels very unprofessional.

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@Liz36 wrote:

I saw a job posted on a board with RBG. I applied for it and assumed it would be assigned because every job that I apply for with them is accepted. The scheduler emails me that the $30 bonus that was attached to the job is not available to me since I live close to the location. Why was it posted on my board as an available job then? This feels like a bait and switch. I was told that the job was available to me with zero bonus. Is this a new thing for RBG? It feels very unprofessional.

A bonus is a bonus...period. That's bizare.
It shouldn't have been on the board if you lived so close, or there should have been a sticky or something if they weren't going to honor it.

Shopping Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi.
It is unprofessional.

Is it a gas station shop, by any chance?

Life was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on
That's total crap. Never experienced that with them, though it's been many years since I did a shop for them.

I don't think there are any Russians / And there ain't no Yanks
Just corporate criminals\ / Playin' with tanks
Never seen that. I would be pissed.

However, I imagine dynamic pricing will come to this business as well.
I think MSCs originated dynamic pricing. It's just a slightly different presentation.
Eventually, if you or I look at the same jobs the prices will be different in real time. Not based on their needs, but based on our acceptance patterns. I already use 'clean' browsers when shopping for certain products at companies I buy stuff from, just to be sure. Usually bigger ticket items.
Oops, my ingorance is showing. What's a clean browser? Google only led me to adware extensions.
To me it means you have never signed in to an account on it. The business would think you are new to their site. They might offer things to someone new, that as an existing user you might not get offered. Also with dynamic pricing coming on, it will pay even more to look anonymously. Some browsers have that function built in, so they say.

I have a couple browsers I use that I have never been signed in on, to any account of mine. As far as they know I have never made a purchase. If they offer a 'first time buyer" discount you might have some leverage, or have a friend or relative buy it to get the discount. When you are spending hundreds, stuff like that adds up.
Clean browser:

Depends on how you look at it. We can do what we can do.

To the browser folks it means clearing your history, “ cookies” and trackers which every entity in marketing discloses in the fine print along with your permission to use/sell you info as they wish. It’s very lucrative.

“Clean” depends on how up to date your browser and privacy settings are, and the quality of your secondary protection (malware bytes, Kaspersky, Norton, etc). They’re discovering it’s a deep rabbit hole the data miners erase their detectable presence from…but your footprint is still there and hack able enough that even HIPPA compliant, banking, and government sites are vulnerable.

Marketing companies (and Google) invented data collection, surveillance, analysis and made it one of the biggest moneymakers there is, and it’s gotten so invasive, once you’ve been somewhere…even if you cover/erase your tracks, they still know….and you gave them permission, or you wouldn’t be working for them.
Re:
Reneging on an advertised bonus:
That’s just wrong.
I might take that to the project manager and ask for the advertised rate (with bonus). That reply will offer insight into the overall integrity of what you’re dealing with.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/20/2026 06:37PM by SBP.
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