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we do have these, but for real life mystery shoppers it tends to be women or older men what do this kind of job.

Many young people particularly from this kind of community with alternative views often don’t like these occupations as it is a way of covertly checking up on staff what are often the same age as them (i.e being like a grass (I think you call someone like that a narc or rat) ). In our shops there is plenty of CCTV to keep an eye on everyone and other methods whereby customers can complain anyway.

That said I don’t see as much of an issue with checking up on online shopping places as often its technical rather than people problems (such as slow servers etc) what are the source of most customer service issues,

true, but young British people are really suspicious of authority and more so of anyone who is trying to watch or control them particularly if they are not who they claim to be. in this country its not true we are “afraid to complain”, whilst brits won’t make a scene there and then like foreign customers might they will often take things all the way to a companies head office and if there is a customer service issue with a shop its more because its badly managed and no amount of undercover work will change that (it may make things worse…)

one thing though what is very different to America is again until the 1950s we had a very defined class structure and shop workers / servants (mostly young people) were not treated very well by the upper classes in their middle years , so few youngsters want to be openly “feeding the machine”.

Younger people do however get jobs as computer games testers or in focus groups for products aimed at their age range but of course there is a lot of competition for this sort of work!

A lot of it is definitely down to luck and who you know or how much you are willing to conform.

Since 1992 I went through a succession of ropey jobs, in the dot com euphoria days I saw a dream job in the TV/new media industry go to shit within 3 years, spent 4 years paradoxically serving the very same government I’d spent 10 years previously cursing and rebelling against, and only now have got something approaching a decent job – and that was a combination of luck and family connections – someone else with my (non clear) CRB records simply wouldn’t have got the job I now have if they were up against competing candidates with the same or better qualifications and a clean slate..