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January 06, 2024 03:12PM
Have all gas station inspections gone over to PRESTO? I used to do them when they posted jobs on the company site, but none are appearing anymore for some months now. Can you book on PRESTO in advance, or do you have to do them when you see them on the map? If so, it is really inconvenient as I was always planning trips for the day when I could book my work for the week.
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January 06, 2024 06:00PM
@JACK75234 wrote:

Have all gas station inspections gone over to PRESTO?
No.
@JACK75234 wrote:

[...] but none are appearing anymore for some months now.
Not true.
@JACK75234 wrote:

Can you book on PRESTO in advance, or do you have to do them when you see them on the map?
Depending on the shop, you can claim a pin and will have a certain amount of time to do it. When you preview the pin, the description will tell you how long you have. As the MSC's deadline to have shops completed and the pay increases, I expect that the timeframe for a shopper to complete a claimed pin will decrease.
@JACK75234 wrote:

If so, it is really inconvenient as I was always planning trips for the day when I could book my work for the week.
Then, by all means, leave them for people like me who are glad to see the new format and have no trouble planning routes.

Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2024 06:02PM by ServiceAward.
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January 07, 2024 11:52AM
So, you do this as a hobby? Otherwise, you would want to plan routes for the day and week. I have been a seasoned worker at this for 28 years and need to have a plan each morning of my strategies.

I was speaking of 2024 and I know for a fact Exxon and some others are no longer on the usual sites.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2024 12:03PM by JACK75234.
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January 07, 2024 03:32PM
@JACK75234 Please edit your comment so that it doesn't name the client and MSC in the same post / thread. We are not allowed to name both together here. I have done it before by mistake myself. (Before they yell at you) Thanks.
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January 07, 2024 07:30PM
@JACK75234 wrote:

So, you do this as a hobby? Otherwise, you would want to plan routes for the day and week. I have been a seasoned worker at this for 28 years and need to have a plan each morning of my strategies.
No, I do not do this as a hobby. I do plan routes. Haven't had any trouble. In fact, the only trouble I had was not being able to head out on a couple of routes due to an emergency last week. Otherwise, I had no problem scheduling them out.
@JACK75234 wrote:

I was speaking of 2024 and I know for a fact Exxon and some others are no longer on Sassie. I check the site every day so I am well aware what is on Sassie and the other IPSOS sites!
Actually, your original post stated that the shops had not been on the other platform in months, and that simply is not true.

I'm really not sure what your issue is about. If you know where the shops are, claim them and go do them. If you don't want to do them, don't. It's not that hard of a decision. You may not like the new format, and to that I say, tough. It is what it is. What are you going to do to change it? This is IC work. The company has every right to change the format, requirements, etc, however they see fit. A lot of people don't like the way it is now. I happen to love it. The more people are scared to take them, the more work there will be for people like me who aren't afraid to take them and plan out a day's worth of shops. Yellow shops don't start for another 9 days. I've had two routes of those planned out since they came out. I have been steadily adding other work along those routes to the point they are about full.
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January 07, 2024 08:29PM
No, ALL the gas station audits have not gone to Presto. Only one or two have gone to Presto around here.
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January 08, 2024 03:32AM
Presto is not an MSC. So naming a client and Presto is not a violation. \

Sorry, I didn't mean to defend the annoying brat. The one with the very loud name is being over-dramatic. Shell stations typically finish in November and come back sometime in January.. just the same as now, except for where you can sign up for the jobs. Exxon ran a pilot program of a streamlined shop on Presto in the summer last year and apparently they liked it, because that is the shop we are doing now. Exxon's regular shops finished up in December, I know this because I did a bunch of well-bonused shops up until December 29.

All of the other gas stations are still on the MSC platforms, and all but 2 companies that I normally shop are currently posted.

The loud one needs to get over himself.
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January 08, 2024 12:05PM
What a rude comment you are not very polite! Judge not.
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January 08, 2024 01:14PM
If you were only speaking of 2024, then it couldn't possibly be months since the last time you saw gas station shops posted on the company website. Seeing as the new year is only 8 days old.

And I'm not the one that came on here telling lies about doing gas station shops and scheduling. And then claiming that Presto is too inconvenient.

I simply said that the loud all caps name and your lies are just that. We all do those shops too, and most of us do it for a living. We have issues with Presto, but they aren't insurmountable, we manage to claim, schedule, route and do the jobs just fine.

And like Service said, if you don't want to do them in Presto, we won't mind.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2024 01:15PM by Morledzep.
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January 11, 2024 04:05AM
Frankly, I assumed his comment about doing routes was with Maritz. For many, that was convenient, doing bids and routes. I just do bonused most of the time.

Two appear on the current Gas Station monopolist, EIA and Marathon. At least in my neck of the woods.

Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there.
Richard Feynman-- letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230
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