Unexpected developments

Sometimes strange things happen when you go on a shop. I scheduled a shop for this afternoon which sounded pretty easy. I didn't notice the location was adjacent to a very large and popular shopping mall. Took me 30 minutes to do the shop...and about 3 hours to crawl through several blocks thronged with holiday-shopping traffic.

But so far the strangest thing I've encountered was on a filling station debranding audit. I wore my business-casual attire. I had my LOA. I had my Shop Guidelines. I had my camera with the time/date stamp set. I had even bought a new clipboard to use just for that assignment. And when I got there, the filling station had been demolished. There was nothing to audit. There was no one to show my LOA to. There was nothing. So I took pictures of the street signs showing the location, and pictures of a vacant lot. The shop was accepted.

What are some other weird and wacky things that can happen?

D'Agosto

"What does it mean? You ask. I answer not/For meaning, but myself must echo, What?/And tell it as I saw it, on the spot."

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If you want weird and wachky things that can happen, search through Cettie's post. Everything weird that could happen, happens to her. She has the touch!

I had the first one happen last year at this time and was kicking myself. The demolished station ranks up there with any other closed location, as long as the pay is the same I consider those manna from heaven

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Perhaps getting chased by goats? Or maybe wearing the contents of an unloading garbage truck? How about taking a sink apart in a restaurant to get back my wedding ring? Or perhaps you'd like to know about meeting up with satan in the post office? I could go on.......

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain

Clearly there are tales to be told.

Cettie Wrote:
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> Perhaps getting chased by goats? Or maybe wearing
> the contents of an unloading garbage truck? How
> about taking a sink apart in a restaurant to get
> back my wedding ring? Or perhaps you'd like to
> know about meeting up with satan in the post
> office? I could go on.......

D'Agosto

"What does it mean? You ask. I answer not/For meaning, but myself must echo, What?/And tell it as I saw it, on the spot."

Doing a bar audit with a Transvestite having a gay ole time next to me.
He/she started talking to me, loved my scarf and asked to share my appetizers.
No one did anything, I was over annoyed, and when he got up to leaVE, FELL TO THE FLOOR DEAD DRUNK....HOW WAS YOUR DAY!!

Live consciously....

Speaking of transvestites, I was in a department store where you have to carry a large heavy item until an employee offers you a cart. My husband was allowed to be with me but not carry the item. While he stopped to look at dress pants a man in a dress who stood about 6'6" started giving my husband fashion advice while I was standing there toting a toilet around. Since the employees just looked at us stangely and didn't offer a cart I saw fit to finally put the toilet down nicely inside the fitting room. Meanwhile Mr Transvestite apparently approved my husband's choices and then started suggesting suitable shirts that "would make a real statement." We nodded and smiled and headed for the check out and door PQD.

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain

Before doing a shop I google map the location at street level to have a good look of the layout, especially if it is new to me. This I did before applying for one shop and discovered that it was across the street from my financial advisor's office whom I had just visited the week before. So I applied. The location was downtown so I had to contend with peak traffic time, only to arrive and find that the building had been gutted with fire. The shop was located in a building that was large enough to fill half the block. So I took pictures and uploaded the best one with my non-report. There was no question as to why it was closed. A partial shell of brick wall stood open to the sky. The company paid out and I didn't even have to struggle to find parking!

D. from Nova Scotia

Not reliable at all. Google updates in 2-4 years. Store fronts change 1-2 years, very often.

dwiley Wrote:
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> Before doing a shop I google map the location at
> street level to have a good look of the layout,
> especially if it is new to me. This I did before
> applying for one shop and discovered that it was
> across the street from my financial advisor's
> office whom I had just visited the week before. So
> I applied. The location was downtown so I had to
> contend with peak traffic time, only to arrive and
> find that the building had been gutted with fire.
> The shop was located in a building that was large
> enough to fill half the block. So I took pictures
> and uploaded the best one with my non-report.
> There was no question as to why it was closed. A
> partial shell of brick wall stood open to the sky.
> The company paid out and I didn't even have to
> struggle to find parking!

I love closed locations when doing shopping assignments. Everybody Wins!

Trying to do an upscale cosmetics shop, must evaluate store employee, not consultant from specific makeup company....well, consultant sees me coming and
literally takes my arm and says, "Oh please let me do your eyes, we have a new
creme that takes away crows lines, smooths out, you get the picture. I forgot
why I was there for a minute, wanting to have my line free eyes back, and let
her show me the product (she said five minutes only). I got into it, found out
product cost over 300.00 for both items. Good news I got samples. I had to leave, go upstairs to do my 2nd evaluation, then return to find the store employee to do job...got done, whew!!

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