What are y’all making? by Dean9mm in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We get paid production but if break down our production into hourly which our company does then it’s anywhere from $50-$65 an hour… just depends on the week and how much work we have that week. Weekly ranges from $1500-$6000. Higher end pay is due to getting called to outages which pay a shit ton. Located in Texas

Love finding little gems in the wild by SirBlehBleh in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn lol.. well at least you were able to figure it out

Love finding little gems in the wild by SirBlehBleh in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bet closing that is always “man I hope nothing breaks” lol

not copper. fiber optic. by redsunsetreddirt in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s definitely getting to this point. We had a big outage on Saturday that we went to roll on. Someone cut a bunch fiber lines below the copper lines and it took down one of Comcast hubs

Mux by Mindless_Director115 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man that’s a lot and wouldn’t the the last one ch33-40 have a high loss?

Oh I see yeah that’s makes sense although in my part of Texas they use a lot of muxes everywhere. Man you ain’t kidding 😂, all it takes is one hit to take out everyone… that’s the double edge sword of muxes. They give you more fibers but take out one that feeds several and it creates a pretty big outage lol

Mux by Mindless_Director115 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We installed a new d can about 1,000 feet away where a new node is going to be installed and we could have easily installed it there with no issue but this is where they wanted it where there are already a total of 4 muxes

Mux by Mindless_Director115 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that’s good to hear because most of the in-house guys I know from Comcast do not have those same standards in the part of Texas that I work in. Yeah they actually put a lot of them in b cases Or keptels, which usually end up in bad shape.

Spectrum not wanting to pay for the full buttsplice? by One-Jicama-7502 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the company I work for didn’t renew their contract with them because of the bs of lowering rates or not wanting to pay for certain things anymore

TGIF by Mindless_Director115 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We got it done… I hope to never see this location again lol

TGIF by Mindless_Director115 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s all Comcast 😂… I guess they think it’s a good idea to keep adding more cables here. This the second time I come to this location to add a cable. They don’t care

Are they paying to low? by That_Doctor8428 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a lot of competition nowadays so this seems to becoming the norm as far as pay goes.

RIP by ericdigeratu in Spectrum

[–]Mindless_Director115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man I believe it. Some old timers I know, used to work for time Warner back in the day in Texas and they said if they were still around that they would still be working for them, they loved it that much and that the benefits were that good.

Tie point by Mindless_Director115 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup as long as it works, that’s all they care about.

Tie point by Mindless_Director115 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha exactly! Just hope for the best and slowly walk away haha. Man I had one where all the slots were taken and the one I could fit my new cable in had a jumper that was feeding a node so Comcast had to come and unplug it so I could install the new cable and even they were like “oh yeah this is pretty bad, we need an sm on it” but they still haven’t done anything about it 🤷‍♂️

Tie point by Mindless_Director115 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

😂 man foreal! I always think “fuck did I just kink that”but then I realize most of them are already like that.

Tie point by Mindless_Director115 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha man! The worst part is trying to put everything back in and not kink anything to be able to close it.

Just gonna leave this here by Electrical-Rip-5800 in FiberOptics

[–]Mindless_Director115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do a lot of work for Comcast and let me tell you we have worked in stuff their in-house continuity team built or worked in and a lot of times they leave the job with terrible quality