im always booking my self 8-9 outlets even if i do 4 we dont get paid for running drops so i i have to add a couple of a/o to compensate for it
You're a dirtbag. You don't like the comp schedule quit or go work for the actual cable company, but falsifying installs is a douche move plain and simple. I don't care how hard you have it as a contractor, there's no excuse for that. I hope someone from your company (rather, the company your company works for) monitors this forum and blackballs your ass. And you have the gall to come in here and complain about the bad reputation contractors have and how you can "run circles" around the inhouse guys. You're shite. Go spread some more braid on a customers carpet cause they ticked you off you amateur.
screw that man
he doesn't get paid for running drops.. wtf kind of shit was that. if before i went inhouse i wasn't paid for drops i would have damn well figured out how to either get paid or rescheduled that shit... so as a contractor he's getting fucked so he shouldn't try and get paid for what he does.. that is a broken system. should he falsify. no he should not. should he do work and not be able to bill for it. no the company should not let him.
if he doesn't get paid for running drops, he shouldn't run drops. That means either finding a new job or rescheduling. Making up other work that never gets done to compensate is no better than the MSO not paying for the drop. In fact, it's worse, because both parties agreed, at some point, that they wouldn't be paid for drops. One party has no say in whether they're being screwed by falsifying work orders. MSO's are going to get the most work for the least money, especially from contract partners they know have no vested interest in their profitability. That's capitalism. You don't like it, you want to get paid for every minute you work, go in house. The top two reasons contractors don't go inhouse? 1)They can't get hired. There's a reason for that. Usually they can't pass the simple math test or the interview. 2) "I make way more as a contractor." Then STFU and run your free drops. You're making the choice to do so by sticking around for the money grab. Consider it repayment for all the installs you punted and in house guys had to roll behind and you didn't get backcharged for.
It's no secret that mc141 and I have butted heads in the past, which is why I thought better of that rant and retracted it shortly after posting. Since you caught it in the short time it was there in a quote, I'll stand behind it. Dude is a dirtbag. He give contractors and cable techs in general a bad name. This is just the latest chapter in an autobiography he's been working on for a long time here.
I'm not interested in getting into a pissing match on the subject, so that's my .02 + .02 and I'm done with the topic.
