Mystery Shopping Thread 24 *PLEASE READ THE OP FIRST**PLEASE NO CLIENT NAMES OR FEES

Big_Graeme

awaywiththefaeries wrote: »

I'm doing my first tourist attraction job for react tomorrow. Not sure if the children or the questionnaire are going to wear me out the most. 29 pages of questions!!!! Any tips from anyone who has done one of these lengthy ones? I know I cant use my phone in large parts of the attraction so there goes my usual note taking method.

Evernote is your friend, works on all smartphones.
I've done some off these and they really aren't as fearsome as they look.

superliss

awaywiththefaeries wrote: »

I'm doing my first tourist attraction job for react tomorrow. Not sure if the children or the questionnaire are going to wear me out the most. 29 pages of questions!!!! Any tips from anyone who has done one of these lengthy ones? I know I cant use my phone in large parts of the attraction so there goes my usual note taking method.

use your phone to record audio if possible. take questionnaires in a rucksack or something. (I tend not to use a handbag) you may have to spend 5 min in a toilet cubicle filling in the basics.

Name, description, timings etc. All the stuff that you can see as apposed to hear.

superliss

For those who have an iphone and do Gap assignments I tried this app for the first time yesterday.

You can use the volume buttons for splits and start/stop.

Far more covert!

Anycourselite

And seeing as this is MSE, its free.

enevel

The train ticket gigs are a doddle, once you get the hang. Painful questionnaire that requires you to click a 'yes' answer, even when the answer is actually 'no'.

But my main concern is the reimbursement. Already clocked over £200 in expenses on these, and that's likely to rise by at least another £100 (one ticket alone came to £84). Looking at the sheer number of jobs they're punting, I hope ESA have plenty of staff ploughing through the returned tickets to allocate expenses PDQ.

JohnnyG

GfK payment in the bank

tibawo

Is it me or are gap being a real pain with times lately?

On a recent KFC one you input the time twice - on the second it says 'confirm time' and they have still emailed me.

Between them and mf I don't know who's worst now. My latest proof read was is the assistant was male or female. Despite me putting a male name and then writing 'he' four times in the text box!

polythenegirl

enevel wrote: »

The train ticket gigs are a doddle, once you get the hang. Painful questionnaire that requires you to click a 'yes' answer, even when the answer is actually 'no'.

But my main concern is the reimbursement. Already clocked over £200 in expenses on these, and that's likely to rise by at least another £100 (one ticket alone came to £84). Looking at the sheer number of jobs they're punting, I hope ESA have plenty of staff ploughing through the returned tickets to allocate expenses PDQ.

This is one of my worries with it. I'd hope that they'd be in the 1st august remittance but with one of the banks sitting for almost 2 months that I did I don't have a whole lot of faith.... We're off on hols on 28th August and I could really do with it back for then!

JohnnyG

tibawo wrote: »

Is it me or are gap being a real pain with times lately?!

Complete opposite here. Have submitted some very slow times recently, and one hand written receipt (stuff that gets questioned every time) and I've not had one e-mail from them.

Cybi-Ping

enevel wrote: »

But my main concern is the reimbursement. Already clocked over £200 in expenses on these, and that's likely to rise by at least another £100 (one ticket alone came to £84). Looking at the sheer number of jobs they're punting, I hope ESA have plenty of staff ploughing through the returned tickets to allocate expenses PDQ.

I only took the cheap ticket local jobs, I just can't afford to have such large amounts waiting for reimbursement, for months at a time.

Cybi-Ping

Has anyone else had the apology from TNS this morning? Is it just my imagination or was it TNS that sent out everyone's emails last time too?