RDSolutions reviews

The pay goes from $13an hr when you first start, down to less than minimum wage (piece pay rate) within a few wks. I scanned off 835 items and made a whopping $130. That's a lot of walking, bending over, lifting, time in the store, and you only get paid for what you scan, even though you have to spend time looking for everything on the list. so, if they give you a list with 835 items and you spend time looking for everyone of them, and you only find and scan off 500 items that's what you get paid for. There are no benefits, bonuses, room to move up.

They lie about how flexible this job is. I had several jobs that had to be done on certain days, including Sundays. I even had someone from corporate call, text, and email me on NEW YEAR'S DAY hounding me about work. The pay is deliberately confusing because if you understood it you would never work here. It's $12/hour for the first 3 months, then there is something called a piece rate, which means YOU GET PAID CENTS for every scan. You'll never be fast enough to earn a decent amount of money. You get slightly more to enter entire UPC codes by hand but you can only take so much of that before your eyes start to cross. It's impossible to be as fast as you want to be because customers constantly interrupt you asking where something is, items are squeezed into metal racks and you'll tear up your hands and cuticles trying to get them out, and all those stupid ads and sales promos hang down and obstruct things. Because of travel, the job is a MONEY SUCK. It's insane that they don't pay you more in a city as large as LA, with the worst traffic in the country. They keep telling you not start each job on Day 1 to give yourself time, don't wait until the day it's due, which sometimes meant I drove to Hawthorn, Bellflower, Westwood, and Silverlake all on the same day! At one point I was working every single day, spending 2-3 HOURS IN TRAFFIC A DAY and putting about 60 MILES ON MY CAR DAILY! With our gas being $1.00 more gallon than the national average, I was burning through money just to go do jobs. Because other people on the team would drop out or not finish, I would get assignments added to my schedule at the last minute. Once I called in to cancel two jobs because I was sick as a job. My manager told me I HAD to go to one of them, and then right before we hung she tried to get me to do both anyway! The job is exhausting and physically painful too. Do it long enough and you'll develop carpal tunnel syndrome. Most stores are either freezing cold or uncomfortably hot. In Los Angeles we have a lot of poor neighborhoods with stores that are absolutely gross. Items are open or have sticky substances on them, Children run wild. Customers are loud and cuss each other or store employees out. Nobody in the store speaks English, even the overhead announcements will be in another language. Crazy people yell at you or stare. You can't use the bathroom without getting a code from an employee. You get accosted for money in the parking lot. I've even seen people open up items and eat them right there or someone walk out stealing and the security guard has told me there's nothing they can do. If a client is suspicious of the results or doesn't think you've collected enough prices, they make you go back and do it ALL OVER AGAIN. It doesn't matter that you're sure you got everything. If you get kicked out of a store, they don't put someone else on that store or let you go back after some time has passed--they tell you GO BACK THE VERY NEXT DAY.