A lot. The only possible way to meet the survey per hour minimum or weekly minimum is to cheat. Not cheating as in stealing but cheating their *system*. Some properties take longer to survey than others. The surveyor can see that fact immediately when the survey comes up. If it's going to be a long one then there is a way to skip it by noting it's an answering machine or no answer. Then go on to complete the surveys that are short. I have not done this cheating myself because I am being paid (extremely low) to do a job. I will not cheat myself and cheat others who will have to finish my survey or be stuck with the extra long ones. I cannot and will not. And because I will not cheat the system I won't have a job after today because I won't reach minimum goals. Working again three hours this morning I don't see the point of even going on further with it because I'm fired tomorrow even if I work the rest of the day. There is not even room for a learning curve. Sure you need less surveys the first week than you do the other 3 weeks but it's still far too much pressure the first week to attempt without playing a game with the work. Stay at home moms could not put the time in the first two days to complete the minimums unless they figure out what I stated above very quickly. There is no training. So that time spent, which is excessive unless the surveyor is a person who is just in it for a check and has no integrity, is not paid. Between getting myself set up with the "staffing" company, getting things notarized, printing the materials, watching the webinars, preparing notes and flagging pages and pages of confusing "rules" I am at least 30 hours in and that doesn't count the time it took me to do the *test* to get the job. To get the job the entire manual has to be read and studied. I don't know why I even spent the 3+ hours to do that part as that should have been my first clue that this was a poor operation. Considering there is no training and the one person to contact is very busy, there is no way to ask questions and get a timely response, but they still want the quota to be met and the surveys to be done correctly. And if they are not done correctly then you are not paid for them. You get a small hourly wage but the money that makes this worth any time at all comes from the completed surveys. Here it is a day and a half into the work and I have no feedback. So if I continue and I'm doing it wrong how will I know how to fix it or get paid? If you need to work at home and can't find anything at all better than a one month temp job as an employee when you are not paid for training yourself and not helped and then not paid for work that is done wrong then I guess you have to try it. But if you have integrity there is absolutely no way to keep the job. No possible way to reach their requirements. It's almost like they want to just say they are doing the survey for the client or whomever the survey is being done for and not worry about it really being done right. I was also tripped up a few times because the people answering the phones at the property knew I was doing a survey because no matter how much you lie about being a prospective renter (and yes you do have to lie, you cannot say you are surveying even if they ask) people who have been working properties for a long time know exactly what you are doing. In about 6 hours of work I had at least 2-3 people an hour ask me if it was a survey. Two of them hung up on me when I was about halfway through. it was my first day so the first person I called back because I thought maybe we were disconnected. I realized a short time later that it was no accident because they knew what I was doing and I'm a pretty good actress. I'm also not sure if we are getting these people at the properties in trouble or not. That bothered me a little bit. We have to get their first names. After my first day I thought about the calls. I thought about one lady who was so nervous that I'm almost certain she gave me some wrong pricing on the properties. I did confirm the pricing twice because it seemed way off for the different types of dwellings. I hope she doesn't get in trouble. Also if you are not good in math please do not even attempt this job. There is a lot of math and critical thinking that has to be done in seconds because if not then again you do not meet your quotas. I almost forgot to mention that our time punch system is not working. I hope I get paid at least the minimum for the work I did do. The staffing agency keeps telling us to keep track of our time and that the login system also keeps track of time. If the log in system keeps track of time then why have the other punch in clock? I know they have been doing this for years and I have heard good things about them and people return for another year. So something has to be working on both ends. But none of it works for me.
