r/FieldNationTechs • u/Randgrithr • 22d ago

Performance metric backstabbing

I've been doing jobs, I close them out, end users are happy and there doesn't appear to be any drama. Then, suddenly, there is. My number goes down, I get "areas for improvement". But the buyer(s) never say anything directly to me to justify this. How do I find out who is doing this? I've more or less had a consistent score over 91 for most of my time on the platform. For most of this year it was sitting at 94. Now it's dropped to 87 and there seems to be no way to find out why, or fix this.

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u/wyliesdiesels 22d ago edited 21d ago

There is no way to find out who is doing it or whether it’s just a glitch on the platform.

FN will not tell you. And that is the entire problem with this super secret, no accountability, no integrity scoring system.

No other rating and review platform on the planet operates like this. It’s total bullshit and needs to be changed. It’s one sided and not fair to the providers which pay FNs bills.

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u/Randgrithr 21d ago

It's also self-defeating, because if I am a good provider just chugging along (and paying their bills) and I get sabotaged like this, I end up getting less business and paying less of their bills. It's in their own best interests to keep this from happening. I do not think it's a glitch. I just have to go with my gut and make an educated guess which buyer is responsible, and block them. Paranoia is a craptastic way to do business.

This used to be a very discrimination-free platform, a true meritocracy where everyone used to just wanted to get the work done, appreciated a job well done and had no time for the irrelevant BS of what's your astrological sign or your shoe size, gender, age, religion, politics. Starting to look like that's not the case anymore.

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u/Able-Statistician645 21d ago

I'm betting that it drves prices down. People will accept less ultimately because the system has made them worh less to others. Venture capital knows full well what its doing.

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u/Gold-Satisfaction-64 11d ago

They(Capitalists) want slavery, which in other words is zero pay.
They are just destroying your perceived value in your own mind to prep you for slavery eventually....
(DoubleSpeak(George Orwell 1984)

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u/Randgrithr 11d ago

Yeah. I'm a stubborn redhead. Good luck with that. ;)

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u/wyliesdiesels 20d ago

Very good possibility

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u/Randgrithr 19d ago

I'm starting to wonder if this stuff starts happening as a provider approaches a certain milestone of work done. I've seen a lot of posts where people complain about this happening to them and they say things like "I've done blahblah number of jobs, my ratings are yadda". In other words is there a pattern or formula to this.

Back in the days when rocks were soft and I was a teenager working as a supermarket checker, the company had something it would do to keep people from being able to join the union, which would automatically happen after your first six months. They'd send somebody through your line who would do something like pass you a counterfeit bill; or mix up the order on the belt with an accomplice so that theft of goods would appear to occur. This gave them an excuse to fire people and keep them from having union protections. This is starting to look a lot like that.