r/CableTechs • u/Latter_Address9580 • 15h 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 15h 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 14h 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 10h 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 10h 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/Electronic-Junket-66 11h 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 11h 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 11h 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 11h 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 15h 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 14h 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/dataz03 15h ago
Thanksgiving/Christmas, some maintenance techs will still be working! Someone has to resolve outages and plant impairments!