I wish there were career fields in being too nice.
occasionally I’ll do mystery shops for extra cash. very rarely because with all the interactions you have to do and how much you have to remember (names of people you talked to, if they did this or that and did they have this signage up and blah blah) it pays pretty badly, but tonight I did a tobacco audit one for a drugstore. I had to buy a food item and try to buy cigarettes without an ID, then leave, fill out a pass or fail letter, and bring said letter in to the manager. I’m 22 but look like I could still be in high school so I figured it’d be easy, they wouldn’t sell them to me, and I’d get $10 for 2 minutes of my time plus a free diet coke.
the cashier just asked for my date of birth after I said I was ID-less. so I bought the cigarettes (which I now have to hold onto for six months for some reason?) and I filled out the fail letter and gave it to the cashier when I came back in to give to the manager. and then I realized he may have just thrown it away so I called the store and double checked that the manager got it (talk about awkward 4 second conversations) and then felt (and still feel) awful for ruining some kid’s night and probably got him written up and the store in trouble with their corporate and everything even though it’s not my fault that he didn’t follow the protocol.
for 2 minutes of my time it sure paid well but seeing as how I just ate four slices worth of my sister’s red velvet birthday cake from yesterday in less than a minute over how bummed I feel… blahhh.
no1curr
4 months ago
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