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Are you sick of your job?

by SnakesInTheTower in

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15 years ago

i posted this rant on my notes on facebook.

why i have no idea... (maybe because i am reading the facebook effect about that company).. are you sick of your job?.

someone recently told me that i should be glad i have a job.

15 years ago

oh...did I mention that they cut are compensation? I wish I could post a copy of the corporate memo...it came from the executives in New Jersey...basically talking about the economy and their margins shrinking. Our company had to cut the rate they charge the cable company to become the dominant vendor and shut out the other companies doing what we do.

So the first (and I do not believe last) place they cut is how much we are reimbursed for picking up each cable box or modem. Right before I started 5 years ago, techs were paid $12 a box....then $12 for just HD/DVR boxes and $9 for regular digital boxes and $5 for modems....which can be sweet if a customer has 4 or 5 boxes. Then they cut us to $9 no matter what kind of cable box (still $5 for modems). More recently, they told us...you have to sell/upgrade cable to at least 1 customer a week or we cut your compensation to $8 and we cut your compensation by $1 per customer and 1% on your collections.... (though I got the boss to amend that for me, but I still take that hit occasionally).

Now...it is another $1 off the equipment... so it could be $7 per box. Meanwhile, my gas costs keep going up. I have to work harder to get the same amount of money...meaning drive more hours.

And in case you think I make great money ($20-25/hr on avg)...I do not work 40 hours in the field because 10 hours a week is paperwork...meaning I am not out knocking on doors collecting. Then I drive 50-100 miles a day plus going to the office....by the time it is all done, I make less than $15/hr before taxes.... and some weeks less than that.

I have gotten hurt once on this job. I was told to take a few days off to heal, but I was not paid for those days, but my company did have to pay the express care bill. I have been bitten twice in the last couple of years and threatened numerous times by customers.

I am starting paperwork now...and have to drive to the office to drop it and equipment off ..and pick up new work..then go home and sort that out.

My fiancee is right...I spend more time than I think on this job. I am looking, looking.

Economic recovery my ass. I need some coffee.

Snakes (Rich )

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Are you sick of your job?

by SnakesInTheTower in

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15 years ago

i posted this rant on my notes on facebook.

why i have no idea... (maybe because i am reading the facebook effect about that company).. are you sick of your job?.

someone recently told me that i should be glad i have a job.

15 years ago

SnakesInTheTower 15 years ago

used to be I could count on literally more work than I could handle and cherry pick the work orders most likely to pay or return large amounts of cable equipment. cable company has gotten smart and limiting the amount of equipment that customers can have... and is turning off their service faster...instead of 60-90 or even 120 days delinquent (from date of the bill), they have cut it to as little as 41 days. (11 days after the bill comes out) depending on what day a Thursday falls.

Now, I am lucky to get 100-120 work orders but spread out over the same size area, meaning less contacts per hour, meaning less opportunity to collect money and/or equipment.... and those work orders that are printing are more resistant to collections because the cable company has already precalled (read, harrassed with a dialer followed by a philipine CSR wanting payment). by the time I get it, the customer is pissed.

Oh well, I am working in the projects (public housing) today and other areas. Just waiting for my beautiful bride to be to get home. I am watching the 9YO.

Snakes (Rich )

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Are you sick of your job?

by SnakesInTheTower in

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15 years ago

i posted this rant on my notes on facebook.

why i have no idea... (maybe because i am reading the facebook effect about that company).. are you sick of your job?.

someone recently told me that i should be glad i have a job.

15 years ago

SnakesInTheTower 15 years ago

I posted this rant on my notes on facebook. Why I have no idea... (maybe because I am reading The Facebook Effect about that company).

Are you sick of your job?

I am. Someone recently told me that I should be glad I HAVE a job. Interesting. Do they mean a job that is commission only, minimum wage ($8.50/hr) guaranteed but if I am making that little in commission I won't still have the job, a job where I put 30K miles a year on my car, no reimbursement for fuel or repairs, work in all kinds of weather...no paid vacation, no benefits. I would hate to do a cost analysis of my expenses versus what I make. I would probably have to quit on the spot.

No idea until Thursday night/Friday morning what my work load will be for the week following? A job where I have our clients customers yelling and/or cussing and/or threatening me because our client doesnt know how to provide customer service and outsources it to Panama/Philipines/Pakistan? A job where I am trying to convince people to pay their past due accounts on service that is spotty/dodgy/inconsistent?

I should be glad I have THAT job. Wow. Profound.

**********end of facebook rant)

What I want is a job that pays a decent wage, working regular daytime hours, with benefits for me and my family. Without health insurance, me and my fiancee are going to have a difficult time getting married. Though we will bite the bullet if one or both of us doesnt have a new job by March 2011. We want to get married, but she is going back to school and jobs are scarce around here. Unemployment rate in this area is around 10-11 percent. That is the rate of those collecting unemployment, not those whose benefits have run out or they have given up. Estimated that 5-6 people are chasing every job. Go to a brick and mortar establishment and often they tell you to apply online. (Thus why I am online right now). The job listings on the major boards are slim. I apply for what I might be remotely interested in that has benefits. I customize my resume for each prospective employer I am frustrated.

Of course, if you are reading this and have no job, then my little rant is petty at best and your frustration is exponentially larger. And for that, I apologize...that whole "met a man with no shoes, then met a man with no feet..." kind of thing. Yes, there is always someone in worse shape.

Here is hoping the economy gets better soon (hint: quit outsourcing jobs to foreign countries and giving tax credits for the privilege).

Snakes (Rich )

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Ladies: Would You Work Overnight?

by snowbird in

15 years ago

i've been offered the option of working from 8 pm until 4 am.. pay is a little more.. the only drawback is the drive to and fro.. have you ever done something similar?.

syl.

15 years ago

SnakesInTheTower 15 years ago

avoid it like the plague... I did it off and on for years. You never get used to it....ever.

Snakes (of the "wants a Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm job with benefits" Sheep Class)

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Should I quit my job?

by tsar_robles in

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15 years ago

cc: my supervisor, our manager, our vicepresident.

guy that didn't show up:.

guy that didn't show up.

15 years ago

SnakesInTheTower 15 years ago

i once got fired over the "tone" of an internal communication at the major water utility I was employed by. The recipient of the email did not object but did comment to me personally about "toning it down" but they loved me. This guy was a supervisor in California at a local district office and I was in Illinois at a call center as a billing specialist. They had a customer that kept asking for unreasonable adjustments on their water bill. I finally emailed that I made one last adjustment and that was it. My problem was using all caps and bold on a few words...that was the "tone" problem.

The issue escalated because I cc'd a call center supervisor who was dealing with the customer from our end. He had a huge issue and escalated it to my boss, her boss, and his boss.

That evening, I kept getting receipts returned via LotusNotes that my emails were being opened, one after the other. Problem was, they were days, weeks, even months old. Same supervisor was opening them. I walked out of my cubicle to hers. She was in there crying. After 50 emails she had to suspend me. Too many "problem" emails.

I was fired a few days later. I won my unemployment appeal. But I sure hated to lose that job. Despite the politics, which I sucked at, I loved what I did and it paid well (at the time) and had full benefits.

Now I have a job that pays well but no benefits.

Moral of the story..be careful what you email. Other moral of the story...if you are employed...stay employed and keep your head below the radar...until you can find something else.

Snakes (Rich )

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Installing a Husband

by Mythbuster in

15 years ago

dear tech support,.

last year i upgraded from boyfriend 5.0 to husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow-down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under boyfriend 5.0. in addition, husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as romance 9.5 and personal attention 6.5 and then installed undesirable programs such as nfl 5.0, nhl 3.0 and golf clubs 4.1. conversation 8.0 no longer runs and housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.

please note that i have tried running nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

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SnakesInTheTower 15 years ago

marking for later read to Fiancee 2.0. Her sense of humor (v 3.1) is compatible with this thread.

Snakes (Rich )

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Fox news weighs in on sex offender going to kingdom hall !

by koolaid-man in

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15 years ago

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4250574/does-safety-trump-religious-rights.

15 years ago

SnakesInTheTower 15 years ago

Fox Snooze... the clip was 3 minutes..and the hostess says "thanks for an interesting debate." What debate?

The guy's photo is creepy. First Amendment my ass. The guy is a convicted pedophile. 10 years probation?

He should have been sent to the lions as part of televised gladiator games on pay-per-view.

Chaperone? Really? The JWs shun anyone that accuses a pedophile as the single witness to the event but are willing to sit with a convicted pedophile at the kingdom hall and go to the restroom with him so he is not alone with little boys? Was he a JW before this? If not, who the hell was witnessing to him trying to convert him?

bleh...feed him to the lions. Short of that....send him to prison for life. He does not deserve to live.

Snakes (Rich )

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So they finally said it ....

by 2014CountDown in

15 years ago

the sept 15, 2010 wt on page 23 states :.

the anointed and their other sheep companions recognize that by following the lead of the modern-day governing body, they are in fact following their leader, christ.. what a pile of filth!!!!.

the only capitalized letters are governing, body, leader, christ.

15 years ago

SnakesInTheTower 15 years ago

WELCOME TO THE NEWBIES...

This spiritual food is based onGod’s Word. Thus, WHAT IS TAUGHT IS NOT FROM MEN
BUT FROM JEHOVAH.

WT says the spiritual food is based on. Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (m-w.com) says that "to make, form, or serve as a base for."

Hmmm... just like a foundation of a house serves as what the rest of the house sits on, but is not the entire house.

So WT says that God's Word is the foundation for its doctrine...but it is NOT GOD'S WORD. WT doctrine is a derivitative (*) work of the Bible. Sadly it is so derivative that it barely resembles the Bible at all.

I am so glad I am out of that cult. I cannot believe my mind and thinking process was co-opted by that crap for so long.

Snakes (Rich )

(*) derivative: "1a(1) the formation of a word from another word or base" (italics/underline mine).

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Thanks to the J.W.s im soon to be homeless, living in tent!

by outlander in

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15 years ago

should have seen it coming.

don't want to rehash my personal situation, anyone who's read my former posts will know it.

anyone who cares can look them up and get the gist of the situation.

15 years ago

SnakesInTheTower 15 years ago

Neither your sister or you should expect to see any of that money if Medicaid is going to be involved in paying for your mother's care. If your sister sells the cabin and then your mother goes into a nursing home supported by Medicaid, Medicaid will look to see if there have been any transfers/infusion of wealth (ie, the sale or transfer of real estate) to avoid that money going to pay for nursing home care. One cannot do that within I believe 2 years of entering a nursing home and applying for Medicaid to care fo her. Don't think your sister can pioneer and expect to live off of the proceeds, whether all or half....it all goes to the nursing home first.

The mother of a friend of my fiancee's went into a nursing home. She had to sell the home first, use of those proceeds first, before Medicaid kicks in. So...family home sells first, $72,000 proceeds.... at $7,000 a month in the nursing home... money disappears like tree limbs in a grinder....via nursing home invoices.... she then is considered impoverished, becomes a ward of the state...voila... no proceeds from the sale of the home for the daughters.

http://dch.georgia.gov/00/channel_title/0,2094,31446711_31945377,00.html is the link for eligibility in Georgia. Looks like asset limit is $2,000 and $24K per year in income for nursing home. If it is for aged, blind, disabled, it appears the income limit is next to nothing ($3,800/yr).

So, as in the example above, she had to spend down her assets before Medicaid kicked in (this is Illinois, but the rules are similar elsewhere).

It is a sucky system. As someone else posted, JWs are notoriously bad about retirement planning. As an ex-JW, I have about $2 in savings, enough to hold open the account and enough in checking and income coming in to pay monthly expenses. I literally am living paycheck to paycheck for the first time in 3 years. Anything happens to me, I have no long term care policy...no retirement, etc. Whatever social security disability pays... if it is there.

Hope your situation works itself out.

Snakes (Rich )

PS.....Thanks Watchtower. I believed you.

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