Posted by 101livescan on 9/21/12 7:50am
Msg #435206

Training

What's with all these companies who decide to host training sessions online via Webinar during monthend madness?

Reply by MW/VA on 9/21/12 8:44am
Msg #435211

Crazy, right. There's one tc that's doing "webinars", but

it's more like babysitting. I don't have time for these. When will they realize they need to weed out the notaries that don't know what they're doing and stick with the pros that do.
I don't have a lot of time for all the handholding and it actually interferes with my being able to go about dealing with all the frenzy at this end.

Reply by C. Rivera Chicago Notary Services on 9/21/12 3:08pm
Msg #435271

totally agree with Marilyn...and this is why they pay us the

big bucks...we know how to do our jobs...why won't they just let us do it!

For example, Nations:

- will call and call and call to see if you accept the $45 jobs more than 15 miles out

And when they agree to pay me MY FEE, its often followed by the following ominous series of calls:

- status call to confirm you received the email
- status call to confirm you have printed the docs
- status call to confirm you've arrived at the BO house or signing location
- status call (while you're in the middle of the closing) to see if everything is okay or if you're done)
- status call to see if you have closed out on their system or called in the status of the closing...
- status call to confirm the drop

hey pay me MY fee and if the month is slow, I accept their closings, but the constant handholding...errrr....

Reply by pan/nd on 9/21/12 8:45am
Msg #435212

If these outfits needed to surrender during a blizzard, they'd wave a white flag!!

Reply by ToniK on 9/21/12 10:19am
Msg #435224

Oh yea there was one yesterday I think. I was out doing signings.

Reply by Clem/CA on 9/21/12 10:32am
Msg #435227

Did you get the nice notary mailing list with today's instructions?

Reply by Barb25 on 9/21/12 11:20am
Msg #435234

The advantage of being "independent" is that you don't have to do this.... You can just work for other people. Actually you always have that choice even when you are a full-time employee for a major corporation. When they have in-house training, some that seems ridiculous, you don't have to go. You can always work somewhere else.

For me, I weight the advantage of working for someone against the "other stuff." If it benefits me, to do the "other stuff," I do it. If not, I move on. I try not to throw the baby out with the bath water. But once again, that is just me. And I don't always get it right either. And I haven't always done it this way either.

Reply by Judy/TX on 9/21/12 1:45pm
Msg #435267

Got an email from TRG yesterday saying they were having a web cast today - they gave three available times - and said we only had to attend one of them (15 minutes). I got a follow on email saying instructions on how to dial in would be sent this morning. Did not receive the email on how to dial in. Maybe they realized it was month end and most of us would not have time today.

Reply by jba/fl on 9/21/12 11:10pm
Msg #435337

My company said to call if I couldn't attend...they wanted an hour! of my time.....keeping up with my real stuff makes me forget junk like this.

So I forgot call. Am I now blackballed? Is something dire going to happen to me this week-end? Will my house be foreclosed? Will I be dying of food poisoning? They sent me a report card with 100% everywhere - will I get a new failing one?

I also don't get it.