Mystery Shopping Thread 20 **PLEASE DO NOT MENTION CLIENT NAMES OR FEES ON HERE**

Boredupnorth

mimi1234 wrote: »

Boredupnorth wrote: »

I always seem to get that. They change the status on SASSIE to paid 01/08/2011 and then it will turn up about a month and a bit later. BARE have never been fast payers even when you had to do the £300+ first class trains a few years back!

Must admit i have always had the money from them at some stage, they just seem to be getting later and later with payments. I would think twice now before taking on any work for them which is sad really because I actually like the work they have.

misssarahleigh

jen_br wrote: »

Um anyone have their money yet from BARE?

Me neither

curled

Hi

I'm hoping that someone can kindly PM me the contact details for the person at RE who deals with the supermarket cafe visits.

Had some bad news yesterday which set off a migraine leading to an early night and I totally forgot to do a report for one of these visits by midnight and the job had been released by 7am.

Just thought that the person might be more understanding than the computer!

Best wishes

Curled

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Boredupnorth

curled wrote: »

Hi

I'm hoping that someone can kindly PM me the contact details for the person at RE who deals with the supermarket cafe visits.

Had some bad news yesterday which set off a migraine leading to an early night and I totally forgot to do a report for one of these visits by midnight and the job had been released by 7am.

Just thought that the person might be more understanding than the computer!

Best wishes

Curled

x

Sorry but if you find anyone at RE with any sort of understanding of anything at all, please let the rest of us know.

curled

lol

Guess that's how it goes!

kst101

I was paid by Bare for a job I completed on 24th June by Paypal in late August.

I keep getting emails about jewellery jobs which people keep pulling out of - there is now a fee for the jobs as well as reimbursement but they are too far away for me to do (my county is quite large!)

whitelabel

lalli_pickle wrote: »

Went to a DIY store outside of my usual circuit and it made me wonder where they find some of these people.

Two staff talking to each other, I approach, staff 1 says they're with a customer but staff 2 will help, staff 2 looks at her and says "X is waiting for me I gotta go" both run off and leave me standing on my own on the shop floor.

Someone else volunteers to find someone for me as they're with a customer and tell me towait "there". I wait. 12 minutes I wait, nothing, so I make my way to the tills. As I arrive at the till, staff 3 comes over from behind the customer service desk having stared at mefor the last 5 minutes I was queueing and asks if I'm the customer who wanted to know about Y. I reply yes but I'll come back some other day and he wanders off.

Compare this to another store I did that day.....

Staff 1 shows me everything I need to know, tells me how to get discounts, vouchers and finance, deals on related products and also which related products I'll need, finds me looking lost in another area, helps me out there even though he now thinks I'm completely hopeless and live in a building site. Then sees me wandering over to the tills, opens a till for me, carries on the conversation we were having and generally makes me feel welcomed and valued.

Now, call me cynical but....

One of these stores was manned entirely by staff under the age of 30, the other entirely by staff over the age of 50. Would it be ageist to ask you to guess which was which?

Apologies for the longwinded rant btw. Tried to explain to OH and he just didn't understand why it mattered, I thought (some of) you might

shocking indeed, but it could also be that the first store staff member realised you were a ms and a la burger jobs, gave you a display of what would generate a good report ?!

ex-dmp

On Directgov Job site today. £6.20/hr - 4hours/day Mon- Fri or 5Hours over 4 days, whatever that means

Ref DCG/43569

mimi1234

Oh pooh! I went 7 reports without a query on RE and have now been smacked down. I guess Team Mel are back!

MysteryMe

I know an email has gone out but just to confirm those Sassie TNS visits really are a doddle, did my first one today. I was put off by the briefing notes but you literally only have to do the simple scenario shown on the yellow ticket.