It's cinnamon recall time!

March 11, 2024 07:12PM

I've worked for them for about 10 years and they have always been disorganized. If you expect anything else from them, you will likely be disappointed. But they are also very nice and helpful and a great company to work for.

I also had the gray screen app issue. I called them, they reset it and my jobs popped right up. They told me lots of people with iphones are having the issue.

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March 11, 2024 07:55PM

Yeah, so now after the fellow at RQA tells me my previously 10 locations have been pulled, I get a notification on my phone that they're back! Oye vey!

March 11, 2024 08:22PM

Has anyone done one of these yet? Can you please walk me through the Destruction procedure and how it went for you? I assume it is going to be the normal way, where you open everything and dump the product and containers in two separate bags. I'm a bit worried about doing this on site as cinnamon can be a bit messy. How did this go? Any tips?

March 11, 2024 08:32PM

I got mine back as well but I can't do them until after work tomorrow. Sounds like I shouldn't count on them being there that long. Fingers crossed!!

March 11, 2024 10:30PM

I just finished some. The job is actually an effectiveness check according to the LOA. All of my locations had already destroyed their inventory.

March 11, 2024 10:49PM

@MW wrote:

Has anyone done one of these yet? Can you please walk me through the Destruction procedure and how it went for you? I assume it is going to be the normal way, where you open everything and dump the product and containers in two separate bags. I'm a bit worried about doing this on site as cinnamon can be a bit messy. How did this go? Any tips?

According to the directions, you take the top off of the cinnamon and dump the contents in a bag, then put the top and the cinnamon container, in another bag until you get them all emptied out. Also, I believe it said you need to scan the bar-code and record how many of each size.

But as someone else mentioned in this thread, it is an effectiveness check and the stores I did today were very effective, because they had none left.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/11/2024 10:51PM by Tvolgirl.

March 12, 2024 02:51AM

I knocked all ten of mine out today. It put a kink in my plans, but I didn't want to risk not getting them in before the accelerated deadline. -rolls eyes- By the way, thanks for creating a feeding frenzy, RQA.

None of my stores had products. The destruction process sounds straightforward, though. Purchase trash bags there at the store—get the receipt and add that to your expenses. You'll need two bags per store: one to dump the cinnamon/cinnamon sugar in and one to dump the containers/lids/packaging.

After I submitted my expenses for the ten, I was hoping to pick up more, but the project vanished entirely from the available list. Kind of funny that the two chains are willing to hedge their bets and only check a sampling of stores.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown

March 12, 2024 01:00PM

I did 10 and my husband did 10.
Found two stores with it still on the shelf. Three more stores had pulled it but kept it in the back.

March 13, 2024 01:20AM

The first store I visited today had a sign on it saying temporarily closed. Ok, so I did the other stores and tried again when I was done. This was like 1.5 hours later, same sign , door locked. I am not likely to go back tomorrow because I have other jobs in a completely different area. Do I document that and submit it for payment or just let it fall off and call it a day? I will email them in the morning but figured I would ask here first.

March 13, 2024 01:29AM

I don't think locations just fall off like with MSCs. You will have to ask them to remove it from your list.

March 13, 2024 01:31AM

I would just let it fall off and call it a day. The only field to really document it is at the very end. In recall work, I doubt there's any payment for an attempt.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown

March 13, 2024 02:55AM

I did 6 of my 10 locations...easy-peasy. They had all already destroyed the product. I wasn't in any store longer than 10 minutes. Hope my other 4 are still there tomorrow!

March 13, 2024 03:32AM

I did four today. They only sent me a list of five, and one of them was too far for $20, so I did all I could do in my area. It was so easy. None of the stores had any product left and all the employees were super nice. This is only the second time I worked for them. The first one I did was the Italian chocolate project and there weren't any of the expired chocolate bars still in stock for that one. So far, the work has been really easy and quick, but I do strongly dislike their app!

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2024 03:34AM by shopnyc.

March 13, 2024 04:44AM

I had a store closed during posted hours and I was paid again to go back a few days later (the Knorr job) and complete it. Took a building photo and called in the next day to ask how to handle it.

March 13, 2024 04:42PM

I didn't sign up when I initially got the email because it didn't have any details and having to destroy on site can change how I want to be paid. Hopefully they have some details and locations in my area.
I will wear a face mask if I do any. Don't really want to inhale cinnamon or lead by mistake.

March 13, 2024 06:52PM

its highly unlikely you will find product in any of the stores that needs to be destroyed - if that helps!

@joanna81 wrote:

I didn't sign up when I initially got the email because it didn't have any details and having to destroy on site can change how I want to be paid. Hopefully they have some details and locations in my area.
I will wear a face mask if I do any. Don't really want to inhale cinnamon or lead by mistake.

March 13, 2024 07:34PM

Finished up the last 4 of my 10 shops today. 3 had no product. My very last store, a FD, had 16 of the plain cinnamon that had been pulled and taken to the office, but not destroyed. This was my only store with product out of my ten. So in the presence of the MOD, I destroyed them!! Then after I came home and reported my expenses, the job is now totally GONE from the dashboard! Maybe they are not going to let reps do anymore, because the outside destruction rate is probably less than half a percent.

ETA: Well, now the job is there for the cinnamon recall, but there are no locations in my area....at least for now there aren't. Maybe that will change.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2024 01:50AM by guysmom.

March 13, 2024 08:01PM

@drdoggie00 wrote:

I doubt there's any payment for an attempt.

Not in my experience.

Did a soup safari to a location that was a sewing shop. The big box had moved to a location a few blocks up the road.

Took a picture of the building with the address, and two pictures of the empty parking space next to me, and did the report.

Full pay (by location) and mileage.

Have synthesizers, will travel...

March 13, 2024 08:23PM

Okay, I gotta add some related musical references...

Get the lead out! (Led Zeppelin)

or

"I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy the rest of my life with a cinnamon girl"
- Cinnamon Girl
Song by Crazy Horse and Neil Young

March 14, 2024 01:27AM

The location won't 'fall off' like other MSC. You also won't be able to submit your invoice until all locations are completed in the app. So you won't be paid for any of them till they all are done. That being said you snap a photo of the store and report it closed. You will be paid for it. You might also be paid again to go back, but that's not 100% assured.

@Datagirl wrote:

The first store I visited today had a sign on it saying temporarily closed. Ok, so I did the other stores and tried again when I was done. This was like 1.5 hours later, same sign , door locked. I am not likely to go back tomorrow because I have other jobs in a completely different area. Do I document that and submit it for payment or just let it fall off and call it a day? I will email them in the morning but figured I would ask here first.

March 14, 2024 12:57PM

@viv0412 wrote:

The location won't 'fall off' like other MSC. You also won't be able to submit your invoice until all locations are completed in the app. So you won't be paid for any of them till they all are done. That being said you snap a photo of the store and report it closed. You will be paid for it. You might also be paid again to go back, but that's not 100% assured.

This is what I did. I filled out the report as a closed location to submit expenses. It looks like they approved it which is great. I didn't expect to get paid so fantastic

March 15, 2024 01:06PM

Just did my first consumer recall and will need to ship it back today. I guess I also have to go buy a box because I have no plain/ not previously used ones. How does everyone expense the packing supplies? IE: If you need to buy bubble wrap that is on a roll do you just neasure the amount used and then take that % of the total - and save the receipt to use for the next go around?

March 18, 2024 02:27AM

NEVER HEARD of these jobs! Been out of the loop about 5 yrs though

March 18, 2024 11:20AM

@BayShopper22 wrote:

Chips paid more after they ran it for a couple of weeks.

That was for expedited visits. There were still some at the regular rate.

Have synthesizers, will travel...

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