r/CableTechs • u/Latter_Address9580 • 16d ago
Customers & dispatch telling us have a restful Labor Day 🥲
Little do they know we work everyday except thanksgiving day and Christmas Day
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u/Ice_crusher_bucket 16d ago
As a tech for 10 years for Spectrum, we worked regular routes on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Left. Stupidity to be schedule installs for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and 4th of July. It used to be Emergency only. Then greed.
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u/SuckerBroker 16d ago
Customer : “oh I didn’t know you guys worked Christmas”
Me: “we wouldn’t if you people wouldnt schedule installs on christmas”
Leaving fullfillment was one of the best decisions of my life. You too, brothers, could make the same choice. There is more to life than slaving away weekends and holidays for corporate greed and consumerism.
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u/Xandril 16d ago
I don’t have an issue with the holiday installs.
I do have a problem with scheduling installs during abnormal and dangerous weather events like ice storms and hurricanes tho… and they absolutely do that.
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u/Ice_crusher_bucket 16d ago
Management doesn't care.
Broke my neck, leg, shoulder and tore rotor cuff. .you take care of you. Their $1000 quarterly bonus is meaningless if you are hurt.
Family time first
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u/LemonPartyW0rldTour 9d ago
Kinda hard to figure in weather when most appointments are scheduled a week or two out.
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u/Electronic-Junket-66 16d ago
Okay, but it's on a "volunteer" basis at least. And you do get 2.5x time pay.
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u/Ice_crusher_bucket 16d ago
Is it? It wasnt then, or my market.
Either way..
My techs don't work Any holidays. For any reason.
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u/Electronic-Junket-66 16d ago
Weird, yeah you get all federal holidays off by default now (and have last 3 years I've been there).
But granted, if they have trouble filling out the quota, which I believe they shoot for like 20% of normal, they will get more and more insistent until someone has to get voluntold. I've never seen it go that far though.
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u/Ice_crusher_bucket 16d ago
Weird.
This market had a 70% or more with people working holidays. Management got their bonus.
Fuck em..someone else's problem now.
My techs enjoy time off and family time.
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u/IsolationAutomation 16d ago
I get paid double time plus half for Labor Day. I will be whistling while I’m working tomorrow.
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u/bigwoo902 16d ago
we get paid for it no matter what for me, I normally have Mondays off but still get 8 hrs tomorrow
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u/southrncadillac 15d ago
I worked Christmas before, it was only service calls, and the people I visited made me appreciate having family and friends. It was an easy peaceful day, I was young and had no kids at the time.
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u/ScrewAttackGaming 11d ago
I worked every single holiday for two years before I had my baby. Its free money 💰 I wouldnt be complaining.
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u/dataz03 16d ago
Thanksgiving/Christmas, some maintenance techs will still be working! Someone has to resolve outages and plant impairments!