You Might Be A Secret Shopper If

You might be a secret shopper if no matter where you go when you are not on assignment, you find yourself mentally jotting down the fact that there were no toilet seat covers in the ladies room and that there were several crumpled paper towels on the floor around the trash can, or that you had to wait for six and one half minutes before being seated even though the restaurant had several seemingly empty tables, and the rather vapid hostess did not even offer to seat you at one of them.

You might be a secret shopper if you will only patronize even your favorite restaurants, stores and retail establishments after you have spent several hours on the Internet checking to make sure that those particular establishments are either available for assignments or are very near assignment destinations, and then you carefully plan your route to each destination, using the least amount of fuel possible by driving the shortest distance between each, using online mapping services to calculate the exact mileage so that you can get all of your shopping and assignments done in a single day using exactly three gallons of gas.

You might be a secret shopper if you hesitate before giving your real name to anyone, even when you are not on assignment. Your mind begins reverting back to aliases that you have used in the past and for less than a single split second, you actually have no idea of what to say when someone asks your name. This is especially common for people who do many assignments over the phone where they make up pseudo identities and stories surrounding their assignments, and also a common occurrence in the lives of individuals who do outside assignments in person, as many opportunities present themselves for someone asking their names over the course of an afternoon.

You might be a secret shopper if, when you take your husband out for a celebratory birthday dinner in his honor, once he suggests where he wants to go eat, you tell him that you would rather go somewhere else, and inform him that when you get there, he can only order the glazed chicken breast with green beans and mashed potatoes with no gravy. When he resists and tells you that he wants to order steak, you cave and let him know that you are actually on assignment, and he was going to have to complain about the food anyway and send it back. In the end, your husband chooses his restaurant and orders a bigger steak than he originally would have, just to spite you, but at least you made a valiant effort to earn a few dollars off of it or at the very least have the meal paid for with just a few tiny restrictions. Hmph. Men.

And finally, you might be a secret shopper if the contents of your purse contain a mini voice recorder, for sneaking a few observations about the waitresses lackadaisical performance while you go the the bathroom at a downtown bagel shop, or for verbalizing the details of a cluttered workspace and poor mannered clerk at a women’s fashion store you happen to be working at. Your purse also contains a cheesy romance novel or gossip magazine that has a writing tablet hidden within its pages for quick jotting down of details such as trash can stinky, crumb table, out of everything and angry exchange in kitchen.

If anything, being a secret shopper makes one a much more observant individual, and quite possibly a pickier person. The job can incite its own series of quirks, for sure, but people would not go to these extremes unless they loved the work that they do, and in the end, that is what is most important.

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