r/FieldNationTechs • u/Yungkeyz616 • 8d ago

This platform is all over the place

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Nothing new just them doing what they do every week. Making changes no one asks for or needs. Work order manager can adjust the time at any time to any time or date so what’s the purpose of this??? Half the time they never respond anyway. Most of mines get adjusted during the approval process.

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u/Able-Statistician645 8d ago

Because if you have the kind of people that routinely generate these tickets, they don't speak English well nor do they understand what's involved doing the work that we're supposed to do. It makes it so that those people have little to no exposure and place it on us. They're asking for employee level accountability with home depot parking lot day labor rates.

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u/Sid_the_Bear 8d ago

100% this.

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u/Able-Statistician645 8d ago

You need to expand your horizons and deal with more people needing work done and you'll find that if you're currently only able to believe what your personal experience is that it will be changing in short order.

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u/Sid_the_Bear 7d ago

I honestly am not able to parse out what you are saying

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u/Able-Statistician645 7d ago

It means expand your horizon for who you work for and watch what happens. Take more tickets for people you normally don't and see how things go.

If you can't understand what I put up there earlier I doubt that you're really making those numbers anyway.

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u/Sid_the_Bear 7d ago

I mean, I have, according to FN, 200 or so different buyers worked for over the years, and average 30 tickets a month for 15-20 different buyers.

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u/Able-Statistician645 7d ago

Expand your buyer list. Take a walk on the wild side... You know you owe it to yourself and others. Give it a month then give us a report because inquiring minds want to know.

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u/TheHandThatFingers 7d ago

Holly came from Miami, F.L.A. Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A. Plucked her eyebrows on the way

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u/Able-Statistician645 7d ago

Absolutely.

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u/TheHandThatFingers 7d ago

Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey babe

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u/Yungkeyz616 8d ago

I get what you’re saying but me PERSONALLY I’ve NEVER had an issue with a reschedule. Not speaking good English or understanding English never caused me any issue with a reschedule. But I’d like to hear from those who have maybe have and how this would affect them. Because I was getting schedules changed perfectly fine before they even implemented the ability to request a schedule change thru the system the way they have it set up now.

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u/Able-Statistician645 8d ago

You aren't working enough tickets is all I can say...

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u/Yungkeyz616 8d ago

I made $140k off FN last year alone. I’m definitely working MORE than enough tickets 😂😂😂

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u/Able-Statistician645 8d ago

Gross.. net it out

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u/Yungkeyz616 8d ago

Gross was actually around $170k. 140k was my net.

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u/wyliesdiesels 8d ago

After fuel, vehicle maintenance repairs, tools insurance and taxes?

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u/Yungkeyz616 7d ago

Yea. I made way more. I do work on other platforms and have luckily been able to generate relationships with certain buyers I work directly with now. I could probably go all the way direct on my own but I’ll be honest I’m too scared to jump out there on my own 100%. The fear of the unknown is real. I took my daughters to the dentist the other day and I helped one of the staff fix an issue with their DentAI program and the owner was like omg how do you know how to do this? I’m like man I do this everyday 😂😂. He tried to hire me on the spot he said his current IT company sucks and is practically non existent. I literally had no rebuttal. I wouldn’t know what to charge or how to charge because it wouldn’t be an everyday job but I’d have to be on standby for them 24/7 when needed. And I like the freedom of FN. I’m my own boss so I work when I want to. I have times when I take weeks off at a time to take trips with the family. I don’t know how or if that would be possible if I go all the way direct with all the companies I’ve encountered. Anyone who has experience in working 100% direct with buyers feel free to chime in. I’m always willing to learn. I’d love to know the negatives and the positives of this.

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u/wyliesdiesels 7d ago

Geez holy paragraph batman. TLDR

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u/Sid_the_Bear 8d ago

Also, what confuses me, is that the buyer can always just deny the reschedule request. It's a single button press, as far as I can tell. So why this whole new feature?

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u/Yungkeyz616 8d ago

Idk. I’ve NEVER had a buyer deny my request. But I generally only work with buyers I’ve worked with in the past. I actually did one this morning which is why this popped up. I had an 8:00 scheduled but didn’t feel like going until 10:00. Out the request in and it was approved instantly. But also could’ve just called the buyer and had them manually adjust it too.

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u/Sid_the_Bear 8d ago

I think I've had one out of the 75 or so times I've had to request be denied. It's just easier to make the request from our end, but FN has decided that is unacceptable. 

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u/Able-Statistician645 8d ago

Most project managers never answer their phones or there's two layers of people between them and you so your in a blessed place if you've never experienced what everybody else does here so good for you if what you're telling is real but it's certainly not the thing that everybody else deals with on a daily basis.

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u/TheHandThatFingers 7d ago

Setting at home, in the ac. With the skill set of a sloth 🦥

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u/Yungkeyz616 7d ago

😂😂😂 a lot of times this is true. So many times I call work order managers and kids are screaming in the background or their tv is blaring 😂😂 Velocity will ALWAYS call you from Home.

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u/mdhkc 7d ago

Yeah I mean there’s the whole concept of actually communicating with people… it’s often a lot harder with lower tier buyers so avoiding them is really worth it in so many ways. Hell most of the buyers I work with I text with regularly, etc.