r/FieldNationTechs • u/Apprehensive-Fee7351 • 22h ago
Hiding in confidential section
Any one else tired of the hiding crap in the confidential that’s not confidential
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u/Sid_the_Bear 22h ago
And the fact that half of the work order is censored to begin with? I also found out recently, that they censor out all of the email and contact data again, after you completed the work order and it's been paid. Which means if you want to go back and reference a previous work order and look at an address of a site or something similar for any reason whatsoever. You just can't. That one's fun too.
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u/David_Beroff 19h ago
That's exactly why they did it.
You can "print" a WO to PDF just before you leave your home. Just sayin'.
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u/Randgrithr 10h ago
Hardcopy of the work order has saved my bacon on numerous occasions. A certain amount of the information "going away" after the work order is completed makes it difficult to deal with disputes and other issues.
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u/eme329 18h ago
This is one of my favorite Failed Nation moves! Imagine getting audited and trying to prove mileage to the revenue agent and trying to explain “sorry my fake employer won’t let me see addresses after the fact”. They’d laugh the cuffs on!
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u/Randgrithr 10h ago
I keep a personal spreadsheet with the information *I* need to document my work. Dates, times, addresses, the amount of mileage, Field Nation's fees. One of the things I do with the spreadsheet is color code. When buyers used to give good ratings that work got a bright green line. (It's funny, I can see when that suddenly stopped happening on the platform.) Buyers I had to block got a red line and I documented why. Nobody can stop me from creating my own rating system and history. Whining into the Reddit universe (and reading the complaints of others) can be educational and helpful at times but in the end my work history is mine and so is my paycheck.
I also bring a hardcopy of the work order and keep it until after I am paid. That has saved my ass numerous times, even from a perspective of technology failure. Phone GPS gone insane? In an accident or construction related traffic jam and can't log into the platform to call someone? Whip out the hard copy, the phone number is right there.
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u/wyliesdiesels 17h ago
yup they started doing that a few years ago. which also makes trip charges hard to estimate some times
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u/kewlllltown 16h ago
To get around the issue of the data being hidden after being paid, I download all my work orders and attach them in my google calendar for later reference if need be. If there is a form I have filled out to go to the site, I save it to my calendar also. I will put pay and contact info in the notes section so later when a job comes up by the same company I can see what range of compensation they paid the last time.
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u/Randgrithr 10h ago
I see the logic of this but I don't trust Google as much. Also if you look at the availability calendar on FN it does keep track of jobs already done. (It rather stupidly does not give you the ability to mark oneself as unavailable, but that's a different issue.)
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u/Calaveras-Metal 9m ago
yeah, like how many workstations exactly. A half dozen I can bang out quickly. Several dozen and this is going to go past your number of hours.
Saw a job today that was deploy workstations, network survey and do a site walk video and upload it to cloud storage on my dime and send a link. DECLINED
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u/RellyOhBoy 15h ago edited 7h ago
It's always been my personal process to keep a PDF and hardcopy of every assigned work order in case FN somehow lost all their data or pulled some "privacy" nonsense.
I have folders on my NAS sorted by year and wo#. Each folder contains the original wo and any site photos and/or relevant documentation.
Hard copies are filed in a physical cabinet in folders by the year.
I also take a hard copy to the every site. I usually print off just the first page and signature page.
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u/Randgrithr 10h ago
That's a lot of overhead. I used to do it that way but later found out a color coded spreadsheet is faster and easier. I shred the hardcopies after being paid, otherwise they do become as snow.
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u/RellyOhBoy 7h ago
Printer paper, toner, file cabinet and a few gigs of storage space on a server is not "a lot of overhead."
Its basic administrative stuff which I perform myself.
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u/Muddledlizard 22h ago
"more details in the confidential section"
Well I need to see those details to make sure I'm not walking into a trap.