Want to earn $70 for 5 hours work every now and then to add to your Disney fund? Part 2

[Princess Michelle]

We LIKE you!!!
You did take notes, right? If not, sorry, you need to read it again.
I'm KIDDING!!!

LOL, I took a lot of mental notes. I seem to be able to keep better track of those than ones I put on paper... I do have the page number where Belle condensed a lot of the FAQ into one post so I will probably print that out.

I have one thing on my side in that I used to do merchandising and there are a lot of similarities. I'm already used to dealing with obnoxious managers and customers. I never have managed to grow that thick skin though, people still get to me but over the years I've learned to get over it faster and not to take it so personally.

 

[ldb1030]

It took me all week but I managed to read every single page of this thread...can I have a cookie?

I submitted my application last weekend and faxed in my paperwork on Monday so I hope to hear something soon.

I've been looking for something part time that would be really flexible (and pay well) and this would be perfect. I'm antsy, I want to work now! LOL

Thanks to everyone who has posted their experiences on this thread, it is super helpful. Even though my eyes are about to fall out of my head I'm glad I took the time to read it all.

BTW, Martha, the stalker lady, creeeeeepppppy! I hope she doesn't decide to come down to FL since there are too many people up there in GA trying to take her jobs!

Forget the cookies! You can have anything you want!!!

 

[Princess Michelle]

Forget the cookies! You can have anything you want!!!

ALRIGHT! Now that's what I like to hear! LOL

 

[brivers222]

Tell me. What's a Garden Harvest Chip? Are they made from veggies like the Flat Earth Chips?

What are they??? ummm S*&t! hehe j/king they are EXACTLY like flat earth chips same thing different brand name stamped on them.

 

[brivers222]

Garden Harvest Chips - Store only had 17 bags total to sell of which 15 were the Banana Chips. I too had double Tomato Basil & Vegetable Medley and 75 individual packs of the Tomato Basil in the event box I had to unload before setting up the table.

Yeah what was up with that... inside out table had to unload everything and scoop out the open bags of chips... all of this just to set up the table.

I don't like that new trend

 

[Belle1962]

GA demoers: I need to unbook an event for Sept 9. to work at my ft job. I can always tell my ft "no" but well, that is my bread & butter job and I like things like my house, food, electric, etc. So if I can find someone who will re-book if I unbook then I'd feel better about unbooking. If you want to try to catch this, pm me a time to coordinate my unbooking and your booking. I notice when I unbook events that they pop back into the que right away so we shouldn't have a problem. I'd rather give a DIS'er first shot at it.


The details are below:

Job Name Sutton and Dodge Seasoned Strip Steaks with Archer Farms Bloody Mary Steak Sauce scheduled for 09/09/2007

Event Times: 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
SuperTarget Center - Store # 2036
100 Perimeter Ctr Pl Ne
Atlanta, GA 303461204


BTW met yet another MC person at the ST yesterday. She too was complaining about the lack of jobs and too much competition in our area--she actually travels from another side of the city to our area. She said she wanted to work 3 - 4 days per week and but can't find the jobs on ebooking. Another friend of hers also works for MC (that is how she found out about it) and "several" other companies so she might sign up with some of those other companies.

 

[drgnfly30]

I had one of the worst experiences with the Target Managment yesterday with the Garden Harvest chips...The LOD blew me off when I first got there.. I had to haul all the crap myself over to Food Avenue. Took me until 1:25 to get all set up. I handed out ONE sample when the same LOD came over & told me that I couldn't set up there..(um you couldn't tell me that 20 minutes ago before I'd set everything up?!) I explained that it's where I'm directed to & it's standard.. I always set up there. In the most rude tone she pretty much called me a liar. That they NEVER allow people to set up there! When I tried to hand her the letter she threw her hands up & refused to take it. (Honey it's a memo from YOUR employer not a subpeona!) I explained that if I'm audited & I'm in the wrong place it could affect me. She said she'd rather have me get a bad audit then allow me to continue to sample out of that location. When I said that it would affect my pay she said "That's not my problem"!

Of course she offered no assistance in moving my stuff to the new location (which BTW was the same place they'd told me during another event I couldn't set up in!) Then she'd walk by periodically with snide comments like they'd better not find the empty packages all over the store & good thing I'm not doing beverages because 'we' always leave a mess Great! Guess what I'm doing at the same store today! Diet Pepsi... which of course won't be chilled, it never is. Oh & it just dawned on me, if she doesn't let me set up in Food Avenue I'm going to have to walk the entire length of the store everytime I need to get the Pepsi out of the coolers!

I'm telling you, if I didn't need the $ & it wasn't such good pay, I would have quit yesterday. Give me my crappy Kmart anyday over this 'uppity' Target!

 

[Microcell]

I would call your company (TMT or SPI) before the event and tell them what happened yesterday and ask for advice. My guess is they will call that Target or someone higher up and relay your troubles. Target wants it that way, our company would not have the boneheaded idea to set up at an Exit, that is Target's doings.

I would have called them yesterday when they told you to move. I would have moved and then called and told them what happened, so they would know if you had a bad audit why you were not in the correct location.

I do couponing and get no end of trouble at the store level, and then nothing but apologies when I put them on the phone with thier Customer service 1800 #, who tells them I am doing things correctly. What I find so funny is that You cannot get hired at Target for management unless you have a degree. I never saw such a stupid bunch of "Educated" people!

The last time I did pop at a regular Target ( I don't have huge problems with Supers) they told me I couldn't use the cooler in their food avenue! So I asked if I was supposed to serve pop warm, and was told "You got it"! Every single time someone complained that it was warm, I just told them there is no room to cool them. Lots of people zeroed in on the problem, management! Target is really starting to get a bad rep, and I wonder if it will hurt them.

 

[Belle1962]

WOW--I LOOOVVVEEEE my SupTarget!!!! They are always nice, complimentary and just fun. They usually have my product pulled, table set up and a location in mind before I even get there. And at the end I do my own dishes but they usually break down the table and put stuff back. It's a real team effort there--heck I even offer to do "their people's" dishes if they only have a few utensils or something--no use all of us fighting for space at the sink. I would work there every day (that I wanted to work) if I could.

 

[Belle1962]

My paychecks USUALLY arrive on Saturday. Last week it arrived on Monday. Long time ago, they used to arrive on Friday. I guess the post office is getting slower in getting it to MA from CA.

My guess (and it is just a guess) is that the checks may come on Saturday for the same reason your IRS checks USED to come on Saturdays (mostly). (And that was waaaaayyyy back in the day when everyone got a check mailed) Most of the time, your check won't be delivered until after noon---hence you are unable to cash or deposit it until Monday at the earliest. And while it may not seem like much---think of all our paychecks sitting in THEIR account for an extra two - threee days earning them interest and not you. For them it could add up to nice change and every penny counts when you are running a business.

 

[kpauley]

I had one of the worst experiences with the Target Managment yesterday with the Garden Harvest chips...The LOD blew me off when I first got there.. I

Hope you have a better day today and there's a different LOD there today.

For those of you doing the Pepsi event today, you may want to take "gripper" with you to open the liter bottles. Sometimes they're difficult to open with gloves on.

 

[HERSEY]

drgnfly30 There is one ST by me that I refuse to go to the Lod is very difficult. You can't get your own equipment you have to hunt her down for everything. I have 2 other ST that I'll go to in a heartbeat they are very nice and give great reports. I usually have a bad time at the Walmarts around here so I stick to the Kmart or Target events.

 

[SplshMtn99]

drgnfly30 - tell SPi. When I have the bad management experience at Walmart about moving me near the bathrooms & then having to stay there with vomit on the floor for over an hour, I wrote a long letter to SPI detailing everything. It was sent to Walmart who kindly sent me some gift cards. I also unbooked events I had there. They've since transferred the witch.

I do agree that I get more "rules" applied to me at Target than any other stores I've been to. (18 stores) And the rules really don't make any sense. But, I've learned to just shut up & do the stupid things they tell me to - for the most part. Every once in a while I get a Target manager with COMMON SENSE!!! I'm just glad that Target isn't the store I go to the most. I don't even shop there. lol I currently have $20 in Target gift cards from winning a display contest just sitting in my wallet. Trying to figure out if its worth driving there to even just buy some food with it. lol

But with all that, I do like the cashiers at Target. They are friendly when I'm forced to set up at the exit of the store --- aka Food Ave.

 

[brivers222]

Baked Lays, Cheetos and corn chips went pretty well today. I was at my local Target so all was good. I spent a little xtra time setting up as we had A LOT of "PROMOTE ONLY" items. The LODs all walked by and said what a great display i made... here is the pics I took from todays event:
Full display

Display of just the side wall

And the pic I submit to get my lousy 1 POINT for the event!

Obviously the Diet Pepsi WAS NOT chilled prior to event, so I had nothing to sample of it for about 2 hours. 30seconds in the freezer my ****... it takes much longer to make DP cold enough to even remotely taste good.

 

[dis4harley]

Well, today was very boring. My target only had 2 diet pepsis in the whole store(and they said the pepsi man had been this morning). Of all the different kinds of chips we were supposed to do, they ONLY had the baked cheetos.
So all I could do was give out cheetos, coupons and promote. I hate when they dont have the products.

 

[Belle1962]

I did the Archer Farm triple Berry Supreme Ice Cream Cake today. It went really well for how slow the store was--I used about 120 sample dishes total and that includes the families.

I think Sundays are "family" day. After church everyone comes to Target with their 4 - 8 kids to do the sampling. Not buying--just sampling. The families with gazllion kids are NOT spending $16 on a small ice cream cake--they are buying cheap in bulk!

Since I only could keep a few samples out at a time (about 5 - 6)--or they would melt faster--if I saw a group with a TON of kids (and maybe 1 or 2 adults) I would HAND each adult a full sample while doing the spiel and then if they said the kids could have some--this of course was never directed to me it was usually the kid--can I have some and the parent--yes---I would either just give the samples to the first few kids until I ran out or give one to every other child and explain--these are all I have you will have to share. I did NOT cut moreu ntil they were gone. Are we supposed to be 'free and easy" with kids? It really burns me when parents send their kids on ahead to get a "treat" and then keep walking by me with NO INTENTION of even listening. I now know the trick of handing the sample to the adult and not the kid. I also tell each child--your parent has to be present--not waving at me from three aisles away! I had one girl come by twice with her mom--the second time as her mom walked away and the girl kept telling me how good it was--I reached in the freezer and gave her one for in the shopping basket. Sure enough she was back in a few minutes telling me her mom said no--but I bet her mom thinks twice about walking away and leaving her daughter at a sample table

How do you handle large groups of families with tons of kids????


Also--I unbooked the Sept 9 event if anyone wants to pick it up.

 

[kpauley]

Nice display brivers! You're very creative!

Luckily, the Diet Pepsi the LOD put in cooler yesterday was still there so I did have something to sample. Unfortunately, I couldn’t locate any of the Cheetos or Tostitos we were to sample. I searched the shelf and couldn’t find anything before getting my event box. Asked LOD when I picked up the event box if she could check for product. She said she was busy and to have CS desk check. The register showed the product in A10 (where I looked previously), but once again my search came up empty. Between the two searches, I spent 15 minutes of my time. Product was probably in the back, but couldn’t get anybody to help and I was already at 11:05 so I said the heck with it and ran Diet Pepsi and displayed the Baked Lays and Propel.

Belle1962 - I cringe when I see large families heading my way. Yesterday, there was a family with 8 kids and 3 were screaming at the tops of their lungs. Fortunately, they didn’t look my way. The one WM I sometimes pick up on off-dates has a lot of low income, large families. Depends on the product, my supply, and their behavior what type of sample they get, if any. Unattended kids are told to bring a parent back.

 

[Mrs.Reese]

Brivers - You are quite the creative one

 

[brivers222]

Garsh... thanks everyone

 

[LParente]

OK, I'm getting depressed. No new events have shown up in my area for weeks. I have two booked for September then nothing. Ugh!