Tired of "Desperate! Please help!" emails?

June 28, 2013 05:21AM

Maybe I'm just in a sour mood at the moment, but I just wanted to vent about all the "Desperate! Please help!" emails....

It seems like toward the end of every month we are deluged with messages from schedulers with a subject like this. They beg you to take a shop in the middle of nowhere (the convenient ones are of course easy to schedule) for the same piddling fee, or if you're lucky, the scheduler will offer a "bonus!" which is usually just a few dollars. The "I'm in serious danger of missing my deadline!" plea is common too.

I know the schedulers are just doing their jobs, but really, why should we care? Would I get any sympathy if I told a scheduler "I'm desperate" to make my mortgage this month? Or, that "I'm in serious danger of not making my car payment?"

If the MSC is truly "desperate" then that should be reflected in the fee, not the plea.

OK, I've said my piece. Thanks for indulging me....

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June 28, 2013 12:30PM

Yepper and sick of getting "reach outs".....reach all you want BUT show me the $$$$!!

June 28, 2013 12:37PM

If they were willing to consider offering a more enticing fee, they might not be so annoying.

Practitioner of the Nerdly Arts.

June 28, 2013 12:50PM

Yep!

Them: Help me! I'm desperate!
me: I can't do that for 6.00, but I can do it for 11.00
Them: We aren't offering incentives at this time!

ummm call me when you are!

StormCloud Wrote:
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> If they were willing to consider offering a more
> enticing fee, they might not be so annoying.

Robin

Silver certified, I shop in Cities in NM and TX that no one has ever heard of.

June 28, 2013 02:34PM

Whenever I get those type of emails I ask for a bonus. I have even seen those type of emails in which they specify that they do not have any bonus money. They must realize that this is a business for us and we do not do charity.If nobody takes it at the regular pay then evidently it is worth more than they are offering. If it is that critical they will pay a reasonable amount to get it done.

June 28, 2013 03:16PM

> I know the schedulers are just doing their jobs,
> but really, why should we care? Would I get any
> sympathy if I told a scheduler "I'm desperate" to
> make my mortgage this month? Or, that "I'm in
> serious danger of not making my car payment?"

I won't tell anyone that they should care, but I do often care just because I am sensitive (sometimes overly so) when someone appears to be in trouble. Notwithstanding that, this is a business.

Many schedulers clearly don't care about me or my financial situation or requirements. That makes it much easier for me not to care. However, some schedulers do care. I care more about them and am more willing to help them--while keeping my own needs in mind.

June 28, 2013 03:23PM

I got an email yesterday offering "4 Hero Citations." LMAO. Do they think we're morons?

June 28, 2013 04:37PM

Yeah, if a scheduler is screaming about how desperate they are, but don't offer a bonus, I lose a lot of respect for them. You can't be that desperate if you expect us to help out of some sense of goodwill. The whole reason the shops haven't been filled is because we're waiting on bonuses!

June 28, 2013 06:56PM

Phoebe70 Wrote:
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> I got an email yesterday offering "4 Hero
> Citations." LMAO. Do they think we're morons?

Yes.

June 28, 2013 08:32PM

I got hit with one of those from not sure if I can mention the company name,but still haven't gotten paid for it!

June 28, 2013 08:37PM

I consider those emails an "invitation to ask for a bonus" and if they don't offer one, I would only help them out if I was going right by the place, which means it's one of the half dozen local shops -- and usually I've already done them before they got desperate.

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June 29, 2013 02:29AM

When I get those "personal", but we all know are mass emails, I get annoyed. If it is with a company I enjoy working with, I will reply or tell them on the phone that since this ASAP, I will have to rearrange my schedule to accomodate them and I would be happy to do it for "x" amount. Sometimes they take it, sometimes they don't. Either way is fine with me. Without sounding snarky, and I apply this in all areas of my life, someone else's emergency, lack of planning, or being so chincey in payment that they are now in a bind does not create the slightest bit of urgency for me. Like my set granddaddy said (I have to say that since I have quoted him before), "Your slow planning is not going to make me rush to help." I am not saying schedulers or companies or slow, but it seems that the trend is to offer jobs at such a low pay and hold onto that fee with white knuckles that they end up doing 9-1-1 calls all day until they find someone who will only do it for a considerably larger amount than what the shop was offered for. You would think if they were more reasonable from the beginning, everyone would win. More shoppers would apply, the scheduler would not be pulling their hair out at the end of the month, and ultimately, the company would not have to pay out the nose to satisfy their clients.

June 29, 2013 02:38AM

Today I got the urgent e-mail that all should aspire to be. We really need your help and are offering double the fee

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June 29, 2013 04:06AM

I get bombarded with those Please Help!!!!! emails several times a day. They add more exclamation points every day yet, when I look at the fee, there's no increase.

June 29, 2013 05:47AM

LisaSTL Wrote:
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> Today I got the urgent e-mail that all should
> aspire to be. We really need your help and are
> offering double the fee

Was the fee $5.00 or less? I love those when they say they are doubling the fee, but even doubled, the fee is still crappola.

June 29, 2013 07:12AM

DRJ Wrote:
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> Phoebe70 Wrote:
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> > I got an email yesterday offering "4 Hero
> > Citations." LMAO. Do they think we're morons?
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>
> Yes.

I was gonna quote Phoebe's post & say the same thing!

I think some of them do think we're morons, unfortunately. Not all, definitely; but some.

Practitioner of the Nerdly Arts.

June 29, 2013 01:20PM

I got a few emails yesterday that sounded desperate.

200 miles away from me and it paid $10

Wow!

June 29, 2013 02:39PM

Not hardly. A series of 4 shops originally posted at $80, all in town, no travel.

jschilz Wrote:
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> LisaSTL Wrote:
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> > Today I got the urgent e-mail that all should
> > aspire to be. We really need your help and are
> > offering double the fee

>
>
> Was the fee $5.00 or less? I love those when they
> say they are doubling the fee, but even doubled,
> the fee is still crappola.

June 29, 2013 09:34PM

My pet peeve is when I get the EXACT same email x10. Yuck! Spamming doesn't lead me to think positively about a company...

June 29, 2013 09:37PM

LOL..I got the same one again today and I already emailed the scheduler that I live hundreds of miles away..guess they don't read our emails, huh?

June 29, 2013 09:57PM

LisaSTL Wrote:
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> Not hardly. A series of 4 shops originally posted
> at $80, all in town, no travel.
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> jschilz Wrote:
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> > LisaSTL Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > -----
> > > Today I got the urgent e-mail that all should
> > > aspire to be. We really need your help and
> are
> > > offering double the fee

> >
> >
> > Was the fee $5.00 or less? I love those when
> they
> > say they are doubling the fee, but even
> doubled,
> > the fee is still crappola.

Awesome! I thought you were making a joke in the original post. LOL

June 30, 2013 12:26AM

One of mine keeps sending me urgent emails to do a shop in Illinois. I don't think I get anything else from that company. (Can't recall who it was now.)

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June 30, 2013 01:35AM

Jschilz, I wondered why you were asking that and now it makes perfect sense

July 03, 2013 09:58AM

I helped them out and went out of my way and two month later I needed to perform that same location shop but she said that I must wait another month due to rotation requirements. So because I helped her out, I was not able to do the shop on the date that I needed. That pissed me off really bad so I am very selective in helping these guys out.

July 03, 2013 10:13AM

I would be upset, too. I understand MSCs often don't have control over rotation but sometimes they do. I would be much less upset if my scheduler at least told me she would check to see whether rotation could be waived OR try to find another way to show that she did remember and appreciate my help.

July 03, 2013 12:27PM

if they want it done badly enough they always seem to be "able" to make exceptions....

July 03, 2013 01:46PM

Saying you are "desperate" doesn't mean a scheduler actually is, just as announcing a shop as "easy" and "fun" doesn't mean it is. Talk is cheap. A scheduler who is "desperate" but not considering bonus money or waiving any rotations or requirements doesn't sound too desperate to me.

My old Dad used to say Money Talks. Bull**** Walks.

July 03, 2013 09:26PM

That is exactly what they think because every day someone takes those shops without a bonus. Just look art what Ritter pays.

Phoebe70 Wrote:
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> I got an email yesterday offering "4 Hero
> Citations." LMAO. Do they think we're morons?

July 06, 2013 10:44PM

I see more and more of such e-mails. They also seem to arrive early in the month. Perhaps because economy is improving, people are finding higher pay jobs. In our area even Walmart has trouble staffing their registers.

July 06, 2013 11:50PM

If the number of shoppers is declining, then the fees should start going up.

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