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

[SplshMtn99]

My report went through OK, but if the termination message is an FYI, shouldn't it "pop up" after 5.5 is entered? I agree with your interpretation of the underlined statement, but I was trying to think of how this could all work out to 5 hours without getting an intimidating message.

Its MC.....its not supposed to work out or make sense.

 

[SplshMtn99]

FYI to anyone who cares....I'm changing the cheatsheet above to make manager signature AFTER swipe out to co-incide with the wording of reporting results page. Not that its right or wrong...just saying.

 

[kpauley]

Its MC.....its not supposed to work out or make sense.

You're right. I guess my years of programming and testing, testing, end-user testing and more testing before going "live" no longer applies in today's world.

 

[brivers222]

I write on the back of my event form the following to explain my mins

this is just an example of an 11-4 event

11am ---- ARRIVED
located kit a product
11:15am ---- CLOCK IN (obviously this will be what ever time you clock in)
did event
3:45pm ----- CLOCK OUT
cleaned up, got manager signature filled out paperwork
4pm ---- LEFT STORE

Total 5 hours.

 

[LanaJae]

I write on the back of my event form the following to explain my mins

this is just an example of an 11-4 event

11am ---- ARRIVED
located kit a product
11:15am ---- CLOCK IN (obviously this will be what ever time you clock in)
did event
3:45pm ----- CLOCK OUT
cleaned up, got manager signature filled out paperwork
4pm ---- LEFT STORE

Total 5 hours.

That's pretty much what I reported today, I had read your earlier posts so was a little prepared - thanks!

 

[pandora174]

Pandora, welcome. If you haven't read this thread, we really suggest you do -- at least the first 50 pages. (take notes) It basically IS your training. We have all taught ourselves with each others help. And to save everyone from trying to go back & find the "SplshMtn99 CheatSheet" the several times its been posted along the way, I've finally copied it to my harddrive. Here it is. Print it. Take it with you the first few times. Its a GUIDELINE. Not set in stone. Adjust as store & situation warrants. I think it answers all the questions you asked....but not all the questions you will have.

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SPLSHMTN99's CHEAT SHEET

For all the newbies, here's a little cheat sheet I made for myself after reading this entire thread when I was new & watching the DVD several times. Maybe it will help you with tomorrow & putting you at ease that you've done everything to prepare. (They were written for when the kit is sent to store, but really not much different.)

DAY BEFORE EVENT:
Print instructions & any emails received that amend the instructions.
Print store report form.
Call in to activate MC card. (If your event is on a Monday, only activate the card Mon AM).
Read instructions....and learn script.
Pack necessary supplies.

DAY OF EVENT:
NOTE: *Some event personnel that work thru TMT agency, like to buy product as soon as they get to store. They do this so they can make SURE that their swipe in & swipe out receipts cover the entire 4 or 5 hr event. If their receipts are even just a minute shy of the full event time, they are docked in their paycheck.

I arrive about 15 min early.
Grab a carriage & put my table & supplies in it.
Go to service desk & ask for mgr. Sometimes they come to desk with my box that was delivered to the store; most times I go to their office with my carriage (Kmart) --what ever they want.

If I'm near the back room, I open MC box & put contents in carriage & go get rid of empty box in back room compactor.

Then take carriage & go buy the stuff I need. (I just tell cashier the other junk in carriage is for my demo. No problems so far....and instructions prove all that anyway.) I'm usually thru check-out around 11. 11:10 at latest depending on how long I waited at service desk, or finding product, or check out lines.

Then I take carriage & go set up table.
Then I take carriage & grab some extra product for table display. I count the product on the shelf. Note quantity somewhere. Also note price & aisle # for customers.
Ditch the carriage when empty. Ready to roll by 11:15 most days. (first few events took me longer until I figured out this routine)

About 15-20 minutes before end of event, I put back any remaining product I took from shelf to sell (NOT the remaining product I bought to demo out). I count the remaining product on the shelf. Note it somewhere OR fill out answers on the report form.

I grab a carriage & start breaking down. Put everything in carriage. I put the stuff to go back to the manager in the child seat. All trash in my trash bag; and box up my table. I walk the store with my carriage, picking up any trash I find from event. Toss it in my bag. Head to back room. Throw out trash in compactor. Go swipe out thru register making a 75 cent purchase. Go to service desk & ask for manager to come sign me out. Give him/her whatever is left from event that instructions say to give them. Go home.

Immediately, complete report form if you didn't at the store. ***Make copy of report form & receipts for your records in case lost in the mail to agency. Either make copy at store or at home (scanner), but only after completed & signed.***

Report results to Stayingconnected.com . Attach receipts. Prepare your own envelope to mail it that night or next day using address labels (if they were provided).

If doing another event next day, activate MC card again. If next event is Mon AM, don't activate card until Mon AM. All activated cards are deactivated late Sun pm.

Thanks for the great advice. Still nervous but feel I can do it !c

 

[brivers222]

That's pretty much what I reported today, I had read your earlier posts so was a little prepared - thanks!

no problem... I am working only 5 hours from now on for a 5 hour event... that seems to be what they want. Read over the disclaimer you have to scroll through... it says something about I aggree that my above time represents the entire amount I have spent on the clock and I have verified I HAVE NOT worked any off the clock hours.

So to me that means for a 5 hour gig, they want you for 5 hours not anymore not any less.

Perhaps this change was for me because I was pissed about all the Kmarts NEVER finding my kits in a fair amount of time, thus my clock in was always out.

 

[LanaJae]

no problem... I am working only 5 hours from now on for a 5 hour event... that seems to be what they want. Read over the disclaimer you have to scroll through... it says something about I aggree that my above time represents the entire amount I have spent on the clock and I have verified I HAVE NOT worked any off the clock hours.

So to me that means for a 5 hour gig, they want you for 5 hours not anymore not any less.

Perhaps this change was for me because I was pissed about all the Kmarts NEVER finding my kits in a fair amount of time, thus my clock in was always out.

Today was only my second day at Kmart and they have great stock guys, who are the ones who get my kit. My problem is Kmart never has anything in their ad on hand (which sucks even worse as a customer). Luckily the same stock guy found a case and a partial case of dark chocolate in the back, not where it was supposed to be. I don't know how the employees can take it at this Kmart - the managers I've seen there are downright mean. The one today never came out of the office all day and was PO'd that they called her up to sign my sheet. I nearly sold them out of all Dove chocolate, she could've cared less and wrote NONE! in the comments section. That seemed worse than leaving it blank.

 

[SplshMtn99]

I write on the back of my event form the following to explain my mins

this is just an example of an 11-4 event

11am ---- ARRIVED
located kit a product
11:15am ---- CLOCK IN (obviously this will be what ever time you clock in)
did event
3:45pm ----- CLOCK OUT
cleaned up, got manager signature filled out paperwork
4pm ---- LEFT STORE

Total 5 hours.

no problem... I am working only 5 hours from now on for a 5 hour event... that seems to be what they want. Read over the disclaimer you have to scroll through... it says something about I aggree that my above time represents the entire amount I have spent on the clock and I have verified I HAVE NOT worked any off the clock hours.

So to me that means for a 5 hour gig, they want you for 5 hours not anymore not any less.

Perhaps this change was for me because I was pissed about all the Kmarts NEVER finding my kits in a fair amount of time, thus my clock in was always out.

B, have you put this example to Daniel in email?
15 min prep
4.5 hrs of receipts
15 min post

I would love to know if that's what they want? Swiping out at 3:45 & cleaning up AFTER while still working on the floor has me concerned --especially for liability issues. I know...I'm a nut. Sorry. Us insurance people are pains in the butts. We seriously don't think right.

 

[brivers222]

B, have you put this example to Daniel in email?
15 min prep
4.5 hrs of receipts
15 min post

I would love to know if that's what they want? Swiping out at 3:45 & cleaning up AFTER while still working on the floor has me concerned --especially for liability issues. I know...I'm a nut. Sorry. Us insurance people are pains in the butts. We seriously don't think right.

Doesn't the target event Trainings even say clean up not earlier than 15 before your event completion?

also I have not sent an e-mail to daniel yet i, should

 

[brivers222]

Doesn't the target event Trainings even say clean up not earlier than 15 before your event completion?

also I have not sent an e-mail to daniel yet i, should

here it is:

 

[SplshMtn99]

B, sorry, my BS in computer programming from 1986 is obviously sooooo obsolete these days that logic no longer makes sense to me ----or anyone else it seems.

 

[kpauley]

B, sorry, my BS in computer programming from 1986 is obviously sooooo obsolete these days that logic no longer makes sense to me ----or anyone else it seems.

Heavens, my computer programming degree is from 1984. I'm from the dinosaur age of Cobol. It's hard being a logical person in an illogical society.

 

[SplshMtn99]

Heavens, my computer programming degree is from 1984. I'm from the dinosaur age of Cobol. It's hard being a logical person in an illogical society.

yup...no hope for you at all either. lol
basic, cobol, pascal, fortran, machine language.......we are all obsolete!!!!

 

[LanaJae]

Heavens, my computer programming degree is from 1984. I'm from the dinosaur age of Cobol. It's hard being a logical person in an illogical society.

My husband is a 1982 Cobol programmer and thought the TI990 was the best thing ever built. In 1992 I told him that Windows was the future - he told me I was crazy (I was an accountant, we worked together). In 1995 our facility went to Windows 3.11 and he was hopelessly lost so the accountant had to bail out the computer programmer lol He also told me in 1991, when I needed a new computer and ordered one with a 40 mb harddrive, that nobody could ever possibly fill up 20 mb, much less 40. I bring this up often, usually when he sends 8 mb attachments in email to me.

 

[SplshMtn99]

My husband is a 1982 Cobol programmer and thought the TI990 was the best thing ever built. In 1992 I told him that Windows was the future - he told me I was crazy (I was an accountant, we worked together). In 1995 our facility went to Windows 3.11 and he was hopelessly lost so the accountant had to bail out the computer programmer lol He also told me in 1991, when I needed a new computer and ordered one with a 40 mb harddrive, that nobody could ever possibly fill up 20 mb, much less 40. I bring this up often, usually when he sends 8 mb attachments in email to me.

poor guy

Get this....my DH is a Systems Admin. He never touch a computer until our first one at home in 1991. Never went to college. He's now a Systems Admin for the military. Obviously we did something wrong. lol

 

[brivers222]

B, sorry, my BS in computer programming from 1986 is obviously sooooo obsolete these days that logic no longer makes sense to me ----or anyone else it seems.

Well thats because even as you said its a bull $hit (bs) degree... you need a real one

You can't be faulted for that, we all make mistakes and choose the wrong path.

 

[SplshMtn99]

Well thats because even as you said its a bull $hit (bs) degree... you need a real one

You can't be faulted for that, we all make mistakes and choose the wrong path.

yes, all bull $hit. lol
I should have joined the military like DH right out of high school. 25+ yrs ago.

but on the other hand...there's not much logic or things done right the first time there either. lol

 

[brivers222]

I have a BS degree also in CAD so I don't have too much room to talk .

 

[LanaJae]

poor guy

Get this....my DH is a Systems Admin. He never touch a computer until our first one at home in 1991. Never went to college. He's now a Systems Admin for the military. Obviously we did something wrong. lol

That's for sure - I'm now giving away chocolate and hugging old ladies (but I seem to like it!)