Mystery shopping thread 26 *please read the op first**please no client names or fees

_nate

Oh yes, then when you get proofreading queries asking you to repeat information you've already given in other questions..! No company in particular in mind then.

blindman

savgeax wrote: »

Does anyone know of a company that does mystery shopping for airlines?

TNS ( and to add 10 characters)

samtastic7

Anybody else been struck with the cold? By it's a beast to get rid of (
Think MF have got rid of proof readers

juliahowes

Wow, what a thread. Will have to go through it all. I registered with a couple of mystery shopping companies a while back (while still in school) but never took action on their emails. Somehow they felt a bit spammy.

skivenov

There's 25 more where this one came from!

samtastic7 wrote: »

Anybody else been struck with the cold? By it's a beast to get rid of (
Think MF have got rid of proof readers

My voice has had a cold and the rest of me felt fine. I've got a strong enough accent anyway, so even I can hardly tell what I said on a video shop earlier in the month. Luckily the MOS had the same accent as me so it went ok.

Don't know what they're going to do when they edit it, maybe add subtitles?

_nate wrote: »

Tell me truthfully whether you've ever added superfluous words to a sentence to increase the character count :-p

If only, I normally end up spending ages pruning my reports down by a few paragraphs to fit in the character requirement.

Tolteca87

Bonsai-ing reports is also useful.

And then they want all the detail you had to take out to get it down to their tiny word count:(

Big_Graeme

samtastic7 wrote: »

Anybody else been struck with the cold? By it's a beast to get rid of (
Think MF have got rid of proof readers

Yup, had it over the holidays a proper cold, none of this man flu...

Sadly MF still have their proof readers.

Mordillo

Sunny_spell wrote: »

I know it is Daily Mail...but after reading this article, I think a certain MS company should really consider changing order options instead of timing points this year. The staff know exactly what MS orders are and therefore they behave/talk accordingly. Just a thought.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3390108/I-m-not-joking-fat-woman-wants-six-burgers-Mother-claims-McDonald-s-staff-fat-shamed-daughter-16-ordered-dinner-family.html

There's no way I'm ordering 6 burgers on a MS :rotfl: but these new timing points, I had trouble enough capturing the three without getting caught never mind a fourth, how are people managing this? I'm not doing any of these assignments until I find a suitable solution.

ronthedon

Am I the only one being driven mad by conflicting visit instructions?
Latest one from Service Measure: "Visit must be carried out between Monday 11th and Friday 15th January." Sounds straightforward. However, there are further instructions which state that there are further date restrictions for this visit: "Please visit on a Friday or Saturday"
To avoid confusion, would it not be simplier to say that the visit must only be carried out on Friday 15th January?
Makes me laugh when I think of the pedantic feedback they sometimes provide!

skivenov

Honest answer, and I know it's not right, and I'm a cynical !!!!!!!. I'd take my pick out of Monday to Saturday, and if they argued, just forward them the page where it says to do it on that day.