I recently installed the Field Agent app, you might heard of it.
Depending on your location there are certain tasks to do like going to a store to check the price of a product or taking a picture of a requested bar code, then you get paid.
The first thing I noticed was that every task was supposedly located thousands of miles away from me, but then when I picked one it clearly said "Pay no attention to the distance listed for this job", every task said the same. Bad point, there's something wrong with the app.
Then I started doing some field tasks, going to Walmart, going to Sams Club, Costco, Dollar General among other stores... so far I've never found the correct bar code (UPC) and what really grind my gears is that many times it has been due to one or two numbers.
Here's two examples.
Sams Club.
I was supposed to find a Member's Mark hands sanitizer which UPC was 78742 10686. Then I found it, I was amazed, finally! It was the brand requested, the same size, same everything, except for the last digits of its UPC: 78742 10701
Come on! And there's nothing you can do about it, you're screwed even if there is just one different number, you won't get paid.
Second case: Walmart.
This is even worse, the product to find was a bag of Kisses, an specific one which contains 3 different Kisses (or flavors) in one bag, the app said it was located at a certain Walmart, I went to the address and there was a lot of different bags of Kisses with this and that and well... I finally found it, I'm pretty sure that was the requested product, it contained 3 different kind of Kisses, but! Again the UPC was not the same:
Requested UPC: 34000 13396
UPC Found: 34000 13370
I mean, really?
That's when I said "thanks for nothing Field Agent, I'm not earning a shit, instead I'm expending gasoline on you're pointless tasks, you're out of my cellphone right now!"
