@bgriffin wrote:
@SteveSoCal wrote:
@kenasch wrote:
It has been surmised by some on this forum that they like to keep the applications open until the job is actually successfully performed.
Shopmetrics shows you if the shop has been assigned to someone else, because it allows you to apply as the backup shopper, so that's neither correct, not possible.
If your application remains, the shop has not yet been assigned.....
Not exactly true. If I apply for a shop it is moved from my available shops to applied for shops. If someone is then assigned to the shop the status of the shop in my applications area does not change. Once you apply for a shop it no longer shows up when you search for available shops. So to see if a shop you had applied for has been assigned you would need to cancel your application in order for it move back to available shops then look for it there. And that's assuming the MSC doesn't create a copy of the shop when they actually assign it to someone.
I'm guessing that Shopmetrics has a variety of setting or how those things are handled, but your description is not accurate for the MSC in question.
When you apply for a shop, it goes into your applications and is not longer visible as an open opportunity, but it then disappears from your list of applications once it has been assigned.
If the shopper doesn't come through and the shop returned to the board, your application will remain and it will once more appear in applications with your request intact. Shops that have been assigned and not applied for will also show as available to be a backup shopper...so it's pretty clear when something has been assigned or rescheduled, and a process already exists to allow people to apply as a backup.
Outside of the fact that this negates a need to create a copy of the shop, or somehow mislead shoppers to get shops assigned, you are probably giving the schedulers a bit too much credit for time they may have on their hands to deal with that kind of stuff. Creating backups of assignments and leaving them out on the board would cause mayhem with their scheduling system.