@shopsuey wrote:
Just bring your phone and text notes. Do a dry run at a fast food restaurant. That would be good practice. The people at the MSC are super nice and helpful.
Hmm... Does this mean that if I'm assigned, say, Chicago-DC which is 18 hours and overnight that I would need to stay awake the whole time? Even at 3 am?@walesmaven wrote:
Just do not fall asleep when riding in coach or business class. Some questions require that you are attentive to any delays and to crew appearing in your car.
@walesmaven wrote:
Yappy, sounds like you have a plum assignment of a sleeping car and dining car experience. I am jealous!
@shopsuey wrote:
The reports are pretty straight forward, and you can summarize a lot of the information instead of giving tons of details. I probably write 1.5-2 pages of narrative, even when I'm on long trips. Heck, if I didn't get motion sick, I could write the narrative (in a word doc) while on the return. Just keep copious, time-stamped notes and try to covertly take pictures of personnel.
@walesmaven wrote:
The MSC uses a very small team of shoppers who must live near specific route hub and who are generally recruited based on recommendations from the MSC's other schedulers. The client's guidelines are very rigid, right down to the order in which you state the description of the associate and his/her uniform, as well as the job titles. You have to really, really love train travel to be happy doing these. Fortunately, I do.