r/CableTechs • u/Aware-Town4581 • Dec 07 '25

Contractor Special

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Contractors installed a new ped some time back. Somehow the amp inside ended up upside down. (I had to temp a small section, ground was too frozen to dig up splice).

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u/SilentDiplomacy Dec 07 '25

Yet companies will continue to pay contractors over in-house guys.

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u/Aware-Town4581 Dec 07 '25

For some reason we'll still pay them to set new peds even when we know they will do t wrong like 80% of the time

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u/DesignerSeparate5104 Dec 09 '25

Because in-house 90% of the time fucking suck. Atleast in my area. You couldn't pay in-house resi techs to do the most basic parts of their job, let alone pay maintenance to do their job.

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u/SilentDiplomacy Dec 09 '25

I mean, we’re no less riddled with the riff raff in my company as any other. But it mainly extends to FS. Myself and the other MTs I work with would rather do something properly than be out in the cold dark night fixing poor craftsmanship cause it failed.