I know so many of us are talking about it but how, when, and where will people finally get together and stop this slave labor. Everyone knows, and the mathmatics and stress dont lie about the fact that $1000 to $2000 a week for us to work 10-14 hours a day, 7 days a week, even hundreds of miles from our home, without any benny's, is not good compensation. In fact its practically a slap in the face. To consider the goals we must accomplish, the reliability expected of us, our cost as a contractor, the scope of work including the physical apsect all the way to the customer service, and then the problems we face just to collect our money sometimes, becomes so over welming and disheartening. All we are doing is making the wealthy and capital backed middlemen wealthier, and the MSO's stronger brandname recognition. We dont get paid for so many aspects of this trade. Ever give your phone number to a customer because if he calls in your truckroll rate goes up= you lose money? And therefore you return to fix it without a workorder= no money too? Ever put more $ in your gas tank than you made in a day, yet you were still out over 10 hours. Ever sit in your vehicle on call most of the day just to get slammed with PM work after 3PM? Ever have a repeat truck roll for reasons not your fault yet the MSO dont study that aspect so its compiled in with the rest of your compensation ratio's? Ever work all day long, calculate your gas expense, and revenue earned and it equates to less than or equal to $10/hr? Let me say this. Ever have to travel over 50 miles just to earn $14 measley bucks for an HD box swap? And then ofcourse net taxes from that. So many of these things we would NOT do if we were true Contractors. The point is we are not Contractors. We are employees!!! These MSO's need to be responsible for paying us appropriately. And they need class action for all of our SS, Unemployment, and taxes unpaid. They are raking the $$$$$ hand over fist because of what we do ALONE! PERIOD!! The supply and demand is controlled by us. The only reason they get away with this is because we let them. We need to have our gas, hotel(if applicable), truck, tools, etc... provided to us. Renting a meter to perform their work is rediculuous. Its their proprietary eq. If we didnt have one we couldnt do the job. Everywhere we look the cost gets passed to us, yet our income is also controlled. Im sick and tired of it. Id like to step in the ring with various people over this alone and make em tap out!!!! But as we know the only way to get anything done in this country is thru our beautifly legal system. Its this very legal system that is allowing ourselves to be used so badly. Let us collaborate together. We must accomplish this in time. All over the US. People and TV, HSI and Phone are like PB and Jelly. Even recessions wont hurt our business because of us. Which by the way if a recession happens, the MSO's will still yet charge the same prices if not more, but our earning will drop. Our services are more important to people than Healthcare one culd argue. Yet we are on call like a doctor?? WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING!! Talk to me.
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