Monique I feel your frustration with Cirrus. I must ask, did you submit an invoice to the proper department at the end of February or whenever the shop was finally graded? I've noticed that some people do not submit invoices and that is one of the steps with this company. You also need a password to submit the invoice.

Let's say you submitted an invoice at the end of February, then you should not expect to get your money until the early part of June. Go to their website and it lists if you do work that is approved and submit an invoice at the end of month x, they will initiate the payment processing at the end of month x + 3 and you should receive it by the 5th - 7th day of month x + 4.

From past experience and others posting their dealings with Cirrus, you will need to email them that you did not receive payment when the 7th day of month x + 4 passes. Please note that this experience of slow pay appears to be if you deal with Cirrus website directly.

Perhaps Immolatrix can share if she claimed the job with Cirrus directly or through Isecretshop. If she got paid quickly in 6 weeks, then my guess is she did it through Isecretshop. If not, then I would love to now the secret since I've never gotten paid any sooner than the 4th month out and a nudging email after the date has passed.

I saw that Cirrus is posting here for their storage audits. I want to caution people from doing these for them. The pay is the same in different markets - $45. That is nowhere close to how much this shop should pay given the time involved to do the shop. I've done these shops for them and got double and have seen them offer even more. Of course the real trick is getting paid by those folks! Am I right.

• There is a video you have to watch and then take a test to make sure you understand the material. It takes around an hour to look at the video, take the test, and get the results so you are green lit to proceed.

• Depending on the size of the facility, you are obligated to stay on site for a minimum amount of time -- expect 90 minutes to 150 minutes is what most facilities will put you at.

• Report time. This is difficult to estimate since you could enter some information on site, but I do recall a physical copy of a checklist.

If you are doing your first storage audit with them, then it could easily take north of 4 hours. Unless they changed things, you have to wait for a passcode to get access to the site to enter the report which is more time wasted. If you are doing more than one location, then you don't have to worry about that hour of studying and taking the test.

You can see just given those estimates that you are at $10/hour and it is going to take longer than the estimate because you are most likely going to waste time chasing them down for your pay.

Consider this. When I did a storage shop, the long time employee asked a very poignant question - why do they always send someone new? If it were a great paying gig, then you would expect that the same person would shop it every time. It just isn't the case.

Enough people on here have posted about issues with getting paid and hearing the silly excuses that they come up with.

AZ good job. Consider yourself lucky that you got paid and it shouldn't be this way of course. I've come across dozens of people, not counting this forum, that never got paid. I would avoid these people. Also consider yourself lucky that they don't want you working their stuff. Chasing them down for payment on work performed months ago is not part of the deal.

Not knowing Myron, my guess is they probably haven't done work for Cirrus.

I did a search for a thread I saw a long time ago explaining why the phone and/or web shops posted here go so quickly and it happens even if they are low or no pay jobs. I couldn't find it, so I decided to post.

From what I recall, people said that doing those jobs even though at low and sometimes no pay put you in a category to qualify for higher paying jobs. Can you help me understand this?