Too many greedy butt weasels cutting each others throats for a piece of an already lean pie. So that by the time it's filtered down to the guy doing the actual work, that tech is full of resentment from being overworked and underpaid by the glorified used car salespeople that make golden promises to the cable service providers about how their "seasoned, experienced" techs ( usually some miscreant in a beat-up grocery getter who answered an ad stating "experience required, but will train the right person").
Hopefully The cable service providers will come to their senses and stop allowing their execs to be wined and dined and kicked back to by these miscreant, lying, theiving primes, keep track of the techs who did quality work in their plants, and use that contact info that they are "supposed" to have and give direct contracts to those worthy and capable of doing quality work.
Say the prime gets $150.00 for a specific install. Now a tech working 1099 supplying their own vehicle, Insurance, tools, meters, laptop, pays for uniforms, assorted hardware not provided by prime or mso, gasoline, vehicle maintenance, ladders, vehicle insurance, workers comp ins, nextel, blood,sweat,tears, and family upset because they don't get to spend time with us, etc. see's, if they are lucky about $60.00 of that, works most times 6 days a week and recieves no medical ins, paid vacation, sick days, bonuses, on top of all that.
Where is the rhyme and reason to it all ? I guess we subs are the cable ho's of the industry bowing to the cable pimp primes.
Re: GFC Implodes
Member #: 34570
Registered: 11/22/2004
Posted:
2050
Name:
Dan Gerson
Name:
Dan Gerson
Company:
No mas cable
Occupation:
Paying bills
Location:
Sunny SW Florida.
Personal:
early 60s
Experience:
~28 years
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