Thursday Thoughts
Mar. 3rd, 2022 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzy_daveA lovely sunny warm day.
I popped into town to get some urgent provisions for food and coffee of course. I popped into my local for a few beers as well.
I did feel somewhat disgruntled that I will not be paid for two charity store jobs I did yesterday, but then after discussing it with the supervisor for the research company, they said their hands were tied, and can't put it through as the client will not accept it - well, in fact, we both agreed that this fucking client does not distinguish between Gift Aided items and non-gift aided! It is minor but so many other shoppers like myself have been tripped up by it. Their labels are confusing but the six-digit bar code they use is too close to the ID number they use for a gift-aided product, and the rules are purchases are one of each (one GA and non GA) at each test shop location.
Anyway, accepting the fact that this is something that they can not fix and often told the client the problem I am not doing any more British Red Cross charity covert visits in the future. Luckily I keep all receipts so when I visit Canterbury on Saturday to do a Shelter store visit I can return a cardigan - bought for £8.50 from Deal - at the Canterbury Br.RX - and get my money back! That one is right next to a Spoons pub too!!!
I will keep the books and the lovely black T-shirt I got from the Hythe store. Oh and whilst in Hythe, I picked up some fine records and CDs from the Demelza charity store, and these kinds I will post in a later post.
I popped into town to get some urgent provisions for food and coffee of course. I popped into my local for a few beers as well.
I did feel somewhat disgruntled that I will not be paid for two charity store jobs I did yesterday, but then after discussing it with the supervisor for the research company, they said their hands were tied, and can't put it through as the client will not accept it - well, in fact, we both agreed that this fucking client does not distinguish between Gift Aided items and non-gift aided! It is minor but so many other shoppers like myself have been tripped up by it. Their labels are confusing but the six-digit bar code they use is too close to the ID number they use for a gift-aided product, and the rules are purchases are one of each (one GA and non GA) at each test shop location.
Anyway, accepting the fact that this is something that they can not fix and often told the client the problem I am not doing any more British Red Cross charity covert visits in the future. Luckily I keep all receipts so when I visit Canterbury on Saturday to do a Shelter store visit I can return a cardigan - bought for £8.50 from Deal - at the Canterbury Br.RX - and get my money back! That one is right next to a Spoons pub too!!!
I will keep the books and the lovely black T-shirt I got from the Hythe store. Oh and whilst in Hythe, I picked up some fine records and CDs from the Demelza charity store, and these kinds I will post in a later post.
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