Thanks for doing an analysis on this. I react with my gut sometimes and I should not. You have used your head.
I experienced the same "sandbagging" in way of having the surprise fax back crap in the package when I printed it or rec'd it. I decided to stop the insane jumping through hoops here in tx. We all have to do what we have to do. I believe it lowers the notary down one more step on the ladder (as if there were another one) to have faxing shoved at you without consideration or allowing the CHOICE of accepting or rejecting the job. (This is what I mean by social engineering. We COULD reject it at that point, but then "Oh no...the bwr might lose his rate!!" So, we just eat it and go on.
I have tried for a long time not to get this "attitude" that I have developed...I am a people pleaser...but you can please all the day long in our business and you will get called back ONLY if there is no one cheaper in the database. Readers need to get the point here, we are businesses, we are not min. wage employees.
You are SO accurate on the equipment - I have an HP 3015...and a high speed power copier/printer from Canon. When I started there was no faxing back except tracking. I did not buy a fax that would fax out 150 - 200 pages a day. Readers should note that the equipment does wear out. Boom - time to purchase another.
It has gone from 2 to 4 to 12 to 52 pages of documents in some packages. If I am getting $150 - I will fax back 52 pages. If not, I will not .
About Joe Schmoe, here is my response to that, "Hens do not dip snuff so stop lifting up my skirt while you tell me that."
It is fish or cut bait time now.
If I make money, I do. If I don't, I'll what? ... I know! ...
Lawrence OK, plus Lee/AR and yours truly will start "Rural Signing Service." Every time someone wants a fee to travel - "oh but no!!" We will tell them, "when we were little signing agents we walked five miles in the snow with bare bloody feet , and we never complained. Lawrence lost a toe, I lost two and Lee cut off her whole foot after the gangrene set in! She saw an ax against a barn and knew she had to do it. She sliced that baby off and threw it in for the farmer's pigs. Then Lee hopped and hobbled to her signing appointment. AND, we liked it like that!!!"
Yes, and the response will be "but I bet you didn't have all those fax backs, now didya?" |
