@SteveSoCal wrote:
... I would argue the arguably part of best Thai in the country.
My source is Jonathon Gold (RIP), the legendary food/restaurant critic, who proclaimed, "It was the best Thai meal I had ever eaten. I went back for the next four or five meals in a row, and I almost cried when I had to get on a plane back to New York."
My kinda guy...
@boridi wrote:
It was $14 last cycle (and many cycles before that, I think)
Always been $12 in my area, best I can recall.
But I don't even bother with them until they go to bonus, so maybe I wasn't paying that much attention.
Even a 4-pumper is not worth base + compensation unless I'm desperate or it's on an extensive route and I need them 2 gallons of gas..
@Madetoshop wrote:
I am loving your experience Cool Music but why not speak to the Doggy parents/families?
Because chances are good that about 1 in 2 of them will be f*cking morons who think it's perfectly OK for a felon with 34 convictions to be in the White House while he ignores the rule of law and craps all over the Constitution on a daily basis.
I don't like wasting my time with said f
Base pay has been $12 for ages.
Only a handful are showing up on my pending route to PHX and back starting a couple of weeks from tomorrow. Hopefully some remote ones will still be around. Even better would be for the slate to fill in with all the usual suspects.
@BarefootBliss wrote:
...was unsure whether to rent a a car and drive or fly
All depends on the days you are driving. Heading into Vegas from SoCal on a Friday and returning on Sunday is to be avoided at all costs.
@BayShopper22 wrote:
There is still a location for Lotus of Siam on E Flamingo. I have been to Red Rock as well. I prefer Red Rock.
Good to know. The Flamingo location would be much more convenient to our route.
Why the preference for the Red Rock location?
I have not been since they were in that funky strip mall.
Just another of the dichotomies of the biz.
MSCs expect attention to detail from their shoppers while not practicing it themselves. So they can stick their nitpicky guideline bs where the sun don't shine.
They have sticks up their collective asses about late reports, but do not take responsibility for the works clogging up post-submission, making their performance late.
The way I roll w
I can't imagine not doing one without a guest. The extra eyes and memory cells can be invaluable given the workload.
The GF hates casinos*, so I won't be signing up for any more jobs, even if I wanted to do one solo. I only visit them to play in poker tournaments, and there are only a handful that fit the budget/schedule.
*We're through Vegas in a couple of weeks on our way to a concert i
My experiences continue to be unsatisfying, if not laughable.
In the process of updating all my music software on a new-to-me laptop in advance of my presentations for school, and one company doesn't have the codes displayed with the purchase history info. Their support bot does not like being told its advice is incorrect.
Companies relying too heavily on non-human support may wind up savi
I see your Woof! and raise you a WOOF!
I always say hi to dogs I see on my routes.
Their owners not so much...
I spent years in the dog biz before I got into the music biz.
My dad owned the largest boarding kennel in Dallas, and finished almost 70 Scottish Terrier champions. Spent all kinds of fun times cleaning runs and traveling to shows as a kid.
My mom and sis still do Scottie
Bopping around to find not much going on in my neck of the woods, and came across this gem of a fail:
The pin for one of the truck stop gigs is somebody's house, with the actual location over 30 miles away.
I can still find some out in my boonies, and some major metros, now up to $25.
I don't get the (il)logic behind the pay offering.
I recently made up to $200 + reimbursement for Site Experiences, taking me a max of 30 minutes, but they wanted me to do physical labor at the same location for longer than that for $18 (at the time)?
No way, Josefina...
BARE payments are part of the fragmentation from them farming out jobs via iSS.
The iSS stuff pays via PayPal at what seems like totally random times a couple of times a month.
Haven't done a BARE gig on their own site in awhile, so I don't remember the Tipalti payout period, but I do remember it as being consistent.
Still wrestling getting my 4 classes for fall semester up and running in the school's LMS (Learning Management System.)
And in the final stages of revamping an online education environment I maintain for the non-profit I'm with.
I've requested not to be seated with a server.
Kevin was unbelievably smarmy, and more focused on delivering his lame comedy schtick than anything remotely resembling appropriate service in a fine dining restaurant.
He was so insufferable I threatened to stab him with my fork when he attempted to clear a plate that still had (amazing) food on it without bothering to ask first.
When plann
Haven't seen them shopped in ages, but I did a couple of Fleming's a few years apart. Easily my favorite of the high-end steak chains (Ruth's Chris is at the absolute bottom).
Definitely going high end for my last meal. Don't get me wrong, I love me some TXRH, but to go out with them as my last meal is a life unfulfilled.
In the midst of a brouhaha with them over a truck stop store's registers spitting out receipts with 2 different addresses, and being accused of visiting the wrong location as a result.
I have posted screenshots from Google maps showing the exact same location info/photo content for both addresses.
We'll see what happens...
I just like reading menus, even from restaurants I'll likely never visit.
So yeah, having to jump through online ordering hoops just to see the goods is frustrating.
A lot of restaurants are strictly using online order pages to present their "menu", an instant red flag for me.
Physical menus, and their digital representations, are the best way for a restaurant to effectively present an e
I've done a worksheet for the Phillips 66 jobs. I tend to do a majority of my reports for that one after the fact, either when sitting down at my next meal, or in my hotel room if I'm overnighting.
It's more of a photo checklist as I've already logged the in and out times in the app.
As long as every item has an indicator I'm good to roll to the next stop.
Photos are either required
@sestrahelena wrote:
Whoa Nelly! You wait for all the pumps to be clear for the forecourt pic, Cool? Not me.
I didn't say "all"... I said "two".
The fueling area photo has to show two pumps with no obstructions. I had a shop rejected because I only got one pump and its island.
Depends on the industry being shopped.
I took the plunge and bought a PV-500 getup when there were a number of apartment jobs with really big bonuses. That investment has paid off 6x for the year, so I am happy to sit back and wait for other triple-digit gigs to show up on my radar.
The new homesite shops don't pay enough for the amount of work, so I'm sticking with apartments. Those jobs
I'm looking to do less IC work in the near future, and hopefully way less for the long term.
I'm *this* close to yanking the Uber and Lyft clings from my windshield and rear hatch and deleting the apps from my phone. Profitability is at an all-time low and my financial situation has hanged significantly over the last few months. Rideshare has become a much-hated necessary evil that is no lon
FWIW, these are the only ones I will always complete and submit while onsite, regardless of my schedule or the pin's expiration. Unlike the other gas brands on the platform, the report does not branch out into sub-reports, making it easy to blitz through once you've grabbed all the pictures.
I do not work in the app after checking in and logging the date and start times. I can typically kno
@maverick1 wrote:
Ok Cool Music, this is begging some questions:
1) how long have you been teaching this class?
2) do the students reside in the city, suburb, or rural area?
3) is the class graded on a curve? (I'm sure you know of grade inflation over the past decades)
This semester marks my 10th year teaching. I've taught the basic audio class for about 8 years. I teach at Salt Lake Com