Store Audits

OK, I LOVE the part time work I get to do while spending more time with my kids. I remember working on a job at an actual work-site, how it used to bug me to hear people who work from home complain about it. Common complaints:
"My workday never ends"
"My kids don't let me get much done"
"I need to come to the office just to get a break" (Yeah, RIGHT!)
And on and on... I remember thinking if it is SO bad, come back to the office, and I WILL GO HOME!!
Of course, I never had a job where I could work from home until... It appeared. When we were laid off back in 2007, and I had to find a way to bring in income. If I had to start it without being laid off (and kind of having it forced upon me), I would have been too scared to try it out.

So, here comes my complaint. One of my jobs that I have been able to get recently is doing a 2 day audit in an electronics store. There are several locations, so I have done 6 days (or 3 stores) so far. They are rolling out more stores every week, and the stores that I get, I will be able to keep on a 2 year contract (on an every other month rotation).

Luckily, the first store that I went to was not in bad shape. There are 35 pages of audit instructions and 45 pages of questions to fill out. At the end of my second day, when I return home, I must enter the data of the 45 page questionnaire as well as the data of any items that were found lacking on the floor. I say "luckily" it was not in bad shape because if I had done yesterday's store first, that would have been the END of it for me!!

OK, the complaint is really coming now. I had 80 pages of data entry to do last night! I was even trying to help the store out, but some people you just can not help. I skipped everything that they would have gotten deducted for on Monday, and gave them a chance to fix it by the time I came back in on Tuesday. I told them EVERYTHING that I would be checking... And, do you know it looked the same as when I left it the day before!?!? So, because they were in such bad shape, that led to more data entry for me, endless pictures that I had to take of violations, and a pounding migraine! No more misses nice girl any more! LOL!!!