MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD 18 - please don't mention client names or fees on here!!

mysterious_girl

lor6126 wrote: »

thats interesting about the tax, will have to start keeping notes of everything for tax return. Do you all actually use a stopwatch for timing, dont have one of these yet.
just realised have one on blackberry, have to figure out how it works.

I use the one on my phone so it looks like I'm texting.

mysterious_girl

lor6126 wrote: »

hi there, doing my first job on Sunday and have printed off assignment notes, 15 pages! What does everyone else do? too expensive for ink to do this for job worth a few pounds every time, my printer cartridges are £25 a go. do you all print all this stuff or is there a money saving way of remembering everything you have to do and assess.

This isn't really a job where you make money. Most of our tax returns show a loss of earnings! Best not bother with it.

mimi1234

Quick run. Go do your visits. It's snowing again. Looks like it will settle again! Eeeek.

Just finished my 8th food visit. So much for the glam new look diet. Sigh.

Have a good weekend all.

nickc1989

Lil_Me wrote: »

Keep a log of how many pages you print for each job and you can claim back 6p a sheet as an expense when you fill in your tax return.

Though saving 1.2p/sheet in income tax is nothing compared to not printing it in the first place

To be honest, most of the information in the assignment notes is superfluous (even more so once you've done more jobs for each company, as people have said.) e.g. there's usually at least a page's worth of "If you don't do this job correctly, we won't pay you." I usually make a note of the main points in each assignment, and leave the rest - though this does take a few jobs to know what's unnecessary.

weeg

4 burger visits in 2 days. i feel rubbish!

MrsGSR

lalli_pickle wrote: »

A few things to check first, when you log in and get on the home screen, have you a box on the left that says assignments and then "active" and "available". Are there any numbers in these boxes?

Secondly, have you checked "profile" my defined areas and made sure that you have set it up for areas you can cover (I put lots of areas that I might cover like London, Portsmouth etc as if I'm visiting friends I can pick jobs up on the way) it may be that there are no jobs in your area.

No there aren't any numbers. I have set up areas I can cover. So yeah I guess there is nothing available for me. Thank you for clearing this up for me:)

louise12113

nickik1970 wrote: »

Few more quick supermarkets showing on sassie by the way. You can choose your own date upto the 12th, so it's working slightly different than the VAS site, where they give you a date to complete it on.

How do you view Sassie? i.e supermarkets

serendipity2706

weeg wrote: »

4 burger visits in 2 days. i feel rubbish!

i don't think I could do that many
1 burger every few weeks is my limit, and 1 or 2 chickens a month
not a big fastfoodie though pizza is good!
Trying AGAIN to lose weight, so cutting back on those ones,I like the secret eating restaurants tho

Lil_Me_2

nickc1989 wrote: »

Though saving 1.2p/sheet in income tax is nothing compared to not printing it in the first place

To be honest, most of the information in the assignment notes is superfluous (even more so once you've done more jobs for each company, as people have said.) e.g. there's usually at least a page's worth of "If you don't do this job correctly, we won't pay you." I usually make a note of the main points in each assignment, and leave the rest - though this does take a few jobs to know what's unnecessary.

Very true and I rarely print anything, but with some complex, lots of things to note down assignments I do print. *cough* I just print it at work...*cough*

nickik1970

louise12113 wrote: »

How do you view Sassie? i.e supermarkets

You have to be registered on the vas site first, then you can register on the sassie site. Not sure if you are or not! I joined the sassie site first, but then got told I couldn't do the jobs as I needed to registered on VAS.
There is a link on the VAS site and on the 1st post of this thread(me thinks!)