Ron just wrote the riot act to CRI over gas routes.
They auto assigned him to the same route he did last quarter! He has told them repeatedly and begged for the Louisville route but the auto assigned the same shopper to it again. After doing his entire route of 72 shops, driving 1800 miles to do it, paying for 4 motel bills, he made about $.57 a shop which he spent on food being away from home. Without other shops along the way, he would have lost money doing the route. He then did 30 shops for $444. For all 102 shops, he averaged $2.97 per shop. If not for some heavily bonused shops, he would have brought home a whopping $300 total for 9 days on the road and had to pay for food out of that.
All along the way, he asked for the Louisville route next time because he did all the hard ones. No one ever said they would auto assign the same shops to that scheduler. To boot, the Lexington shopper did not finish on time and was given an extention to do their easily found locations! CRI had said many times..."Absolutely no extentions". That route was also auto assigned back to the shopper who did not finish on time.
On July 3rd, Ron self assigned 7 gas shops for $20 each that he figured had been flaked on since they were on the board. He printed all the paperwork, found other shops to make it a nice route and packed the car. Late Sunday night, he checked the job board to make sure he had everything. CRI had deleted his shops. He never received an "oops" or an "I'm sorry" or anything even after writing in about it.
Ron beat the bushes in rural Kentucky and in Appalachia for God's sake and made no money, but the flakey shopper in Lexington got auto assigned. Makes sense to me.
Oh, and that shop in Ashland, KY that was 187 miles from home in the wrong direction is again in the route they assigned him. He drove past tons of stations and even bought gas and snacks in some of them only to return home and find out those shops had not been assigned to anyone. So he went out another 600 miles cleaning up part of their mess. And no one told him he had no chance at the shops close to home because of the auto assign policy.
At the end of the quarter, there were 33 shops left in Appalachia and he offered to go for $15 per shop plus gas and motel expense for 2-3 days. The assigned them to another shopper for $30 each which was $990. Ron's way would have cost them less than $800 and they would have his goodwill after doing all the grunt work for them.
They will, of course, pass on his offer to do all three routes for $15 each. They'd rather pay more and make shoppers crazy than handle the possiblity of paying a fair price. For that price, he'd be able to cover expenses and make about $8 per shop. I told him to let it go. Let them find someone else to handle Appalachia....and then have to pay them $30 each for about 200 shops at the end of September. grrrrrrrrr
Needless to say he is a bit ticked off. Will keep you posted on what happens. Like I saw in one of Cettie's posts recently, they can take route 17 and put it in a place of their choice. Let's see what it costs them to get those three routes done their way.
Oh, and he plotted every single shop on a map (someof the towns aren't even listed on a map!) and offered to split the routes up for them in a sensible fashion instead of running their shoppers ragged. he didn't ask for a dime for the information. They did it "their way" and screwed it up again. I haven't been working for them myself. After losing a few reports to their antiquated system that won't let you save along the way, I got tired of redoing everything two or three times and stopped taking shops. Ron has been dedicated and faithful to complete everything he said he would and he got an "atta boy" email but no money or consideration for it.
They auto assigned him to the same route he did last quarter! He has told them repeatedly and begged for the Louisville route but the auto assigned the same shopper to it again. After doing his entire route of 72 shops, driving 1800 miles to do it, paying for 4 motel bills, he made about $.57 a shop which he spent on food being away from home. Without other shops along the way, he would have lost money doing the route. He then did 30 shops for $444. For all 102 shops, he averaged $2.97 per shop. If not for some heavily bonused shops, he would have brought home a whopping $300 total for 9 days on the road and had to pay for food out of that.
All along the way, he asked for the Louisville route next time because he did all the hard ones. No one ever said they would auto assign the same shops to that scheduler. To boot, the Lexington shopper did not finish on time and was given an extention to do their easily found locations! CRI had said many times..."Absolutely no extentions". That route was also auto assigned back to the shopper who did not finish on time.
On July 3rd, Ron self assigned 7 gas shops for $20 each that he figured had been flaked on since they were on the board. He printed all the paperwork, found other shops to make it a nice route and packed the car. Late Sunday night, he checked the job board to make sure he had everything. CRI had deleted his shops. He never received an "oops" or an "I'm sorry" or anything even after writing in about it.
Ron beat the bushes in rural Kentucky and in Appalachia for God's sake and made no money, but the flakey shopper in Lexington got auto assigned. Makes sense to me.
Oh, and that shop in Ashland, KY that was 187 miles from home in the wrong direction is again in the route they assigned him. He drove past tons of stations and even bought gas and snacks in some of them only to return home and find out those shops had not been assigned to anyone. So he went out another 600 miles cleaning up part of their mess. And no one told him he had no chance at the shops close to home because of the auto assign policy.
At the end of the quarter, there were 33 shops left in Appalachia and he offered to go for $15 per shop plus gas and motel expense for 2-3 days. The assigned them to another shopper for $30 each which was $990. Ron's way would have cost them less than $800 and they would have his goodwill after doing all the grunt work for them.
They will, of course, pass on his offer to do all three routes for $15 each. They'd rather pay more and make shoppers crazy than handle the possiblity of paying a fair price. For that price, he'd be able to cover expenses and make about $8 per shop. I told him to let it go. Let them find someone else to handle Appalachia....and then have to pay them $30 each for about 200 shops at the end of September. grrrrrrrrr
Needless to say he is a bit ticked off. Will keep you posted on what happens. Like I saw in one of Cettie's posts recently, they can take route 17 and put it in a place of their choice. Let's see what it costs them to get those three routes done their way.
Oh, and he plotted every single shop on a map (someof the towns aren't even listed on a map!) and offered to split the routes up for them in a sensible fashion instead of running their shoppers ragged. he didn't ask for a dime for the information. They did it "their way" and screwed it up again. I haven't been working for them myself. After losing a few reports to their antiquated system that won't let you save along the way, I got tired of redoing everything two or three times and stopped taking shops. Ron has been dedicated and faithful to complete everything he said he would and he got an "atta boy" email but no money or consideration for it.
Today I Will Choose Joy!
"Finally, whatever things are good, true, noble, lovely, of good report...if there be any virtue, if there be any praise...think on these things." ....It's a command, not a suggestion!
"Finally, whatever things are good, true, noble, lovely, of good report...if there be any virtue, if there be any praise...think on these things." ....It's a command, not a suggestion!