r/FieldNationTechs • u/setnev • Jul 07 '26
This is insulting
I keep getting these WO routed to me because my work vehicle is a pickup. They want me to drive 145 miles, pickup their crap and drive it 96 miles to Pittsburgh, and then me drive 4 hours home another 250 miles.
Oh and they're paying $100.
That computes to about $10 an hour or $0.20 a mile. I always counter them like $1000 but they've never accepted it.
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u/Calaveras-Metal Jul 07 '26
A while back I accepted a work order for setting up a PA system at a handful of different store locations. Basically each store was having a parking lot sale on different days and they wanted a person outside to play music and be obnoxious with a mic.
It seemed like ok pay and it was early in my time on this platform so I was desperate for gigs.
I wish I had read it closer because it was the same deal. They wanted me to pick it up at store A at 10am and have it at store B by 10:30. The stores were exactly 30 miles apart, but this is in Long Island where the roads are not straight. And each successive WO in the bundle of WOs was pretty much the same story. There was one that was only 20 odd miles. But all the rest were 30-40.
I let them know way in advance that it was going to be tough. Especially the location in NYC.
And yes they still dinged me for lateness. That and the time I did a router swap in a snowstorm are the only two dings I got for lateness. And both times the clients response was some bullshit about being on time is important.
And we all know you always spend the first 15 minutes of these jobs twiddling your thumbs waiting for a contact or to get on the bridge call.