I posted about this company before. After trying to forgive and get over it a couple months passed, I decided to take the job again. Now, they came in a new way to screw you. They assigned some weird location and sent email to me. Had I not received an email, I would not have known that this was assigned to me arbitrarily. This location is way way way out of my location and it pays 10 bucks. They must be joking. With a snowing condition, give me 1000, I will not drive there.

So, I emailed them back to take me off of this. Will post back if they do take me off without hurting my rating. Although, they never share the rating publicly, I know they do have it. If not, this company will be out of my list for eternity. Too much headche to deal with. Beware.

Indeed, if it is not a job you requested, it should not have been assigned to you. My guess is that it was a goof on their part and they will remove it without negative repercussions to you. It happens occasionally that a company will assign you a job you never requested. It happens more frequently that they assign you a job you requested and they don't send you notification. This is by no means intended as a justification of either practice, though certainly I will take an itty bitty amount of responsibility for those that I requested that they don't notify me of.

In 2008 I accidentally discovered a shop assigned that I didn't request--no email received. Luckily it worked perfectly for me so I didn't make waves. Last week I was talking with a scheduler and mentioned I was surprised I had not gotten a couple of a string I usually do for them monthly. It was one of those "Oops" moments because they had assigned me two of them, they just never sent the email confirming and they have no job board I could visit to see them for myself. I got them done and later got an apology because apparently their email system ate my notification.

Certainly you did the right thing by notifying them that you neither requested nor were prepared to do that job for that price. I figure you 'make nice' with a company in direct proportion to the extent they 'make nice' with you and let the chips fall where they may. Gapbuster 'makes nice' with me on the rare occasion that in their desperation to get jobs filled they make them economically interesting to do on short notice, which does not happen often in the current shopping market.

Flash,

Thank you for your response and experience. I got an email that they took me off without hurting my rating. I'm taking it at the face value as I have no way to know my rating with them.

They do, however this time, respond to the email pretty quick as opposed to a few months ago that I had to follow up upon follow up on top of another follow up and got sick of it.

I agree that the bonus was nice when they needed the job done.

I haven't found them unreasonable but rather have been frustrated also with the communication speed (or lack thereof), by the overall cheapness of the jobs and by the representation that you are getting paid $X when the job is really fee + reimbursement = $X and most of the time the reimbursement is of absolutely zero value to me.

Right now, I only due the Japanese BBQ place for them, which is a limited reiumbursement, but my kid loves to cook a the table, so we all go and have a great time and spend maybe $10 for 3 out of our own pocket.

I used to get bonuses all the time for the multi-billion dollar co's easy to do gas shops Gfk recently took from them.

Overall, I have never had an issue, have always been paid on time though DD, and find them responsive to email, and nice on the phone, even when I said no. One thing I really liked about them is they knew how to use mapquest, and when they called and begged me to do gas stations, they would say, "This one is .8 miles from your house; this one is 1.5 miles, etc."

Maybe some of them know how to use mapquest, but others obviously don't I got a call for a distant shop in town X. I was half awake from a mid day nap and confused it with town Y. I told them the shop was 80 miles away, thinking of the wrong town, and we negotiated an adequate bonus to go there. When I finished waking up and put it on my schedule I realized it is town Y that is 80 miles away, town X is only 35. They certainly hadn't corrected me on distance. At 35 miles it was actually a profitable shop.