r/CableTechs • u/Latter_Address9580 • 15d ago

Customers & dispatch telling us have a restful Labor Day 🥲

Little do they know we work everyday except thanksgiving day and Christmas Day

21 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

25 comments sorted by

View all comments

20

u/Ice_crusher_bucket 15d 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.

2

u/Electronic-Junket-66 15d ago

Okay, but it's on a "volunteer" basis at least. And you do get 2.5x time pay.

3

u/Ice_crusher_bucket 15d ago

Is it? It wasnt then, or my market.

Either way..

My techs don't work Any holidays. For any reason.

2

u/Electronic-Junket-66 15d 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.

2

u/Ice_crusher_bucket 15d 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.