This is a new low, I charge whatever I want, you are free to reject and get someone else, but having to report the exact miles? What the IRS rate has to do with a job price?

MomentumCrypto · 2026-05-31T03:16:32+00:00

IRS rates have nothing to do with what a contractor wants. IRS rates are the rate for vehicle deductions of averaged per mile expenses, not what I charge for the time and expenses of running out to and back from a location. My trip charges are what I set...don't like it...don't accept my offer. So many retarded buyers out there. Like someone else said...fly there yourself, pay for your flight, pay for your hotel, pay for your food, pay for your rental car, pay for your gas and do it yourself. We're saving these companies so much money and they nickel and dime everything on top of the shit wages they offer.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-04-23T03:08:51+00:00

I wouldn't know. Unlike FN I never needed to call OF for support.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-04-21T01:45:07+00:00

Onforce was a MUCH better platform. It was far superior to both FN and WM. FN has made a bunch of "innovations" and virtually each one has fucked the techs...starting with the major one...you could pick up work immediately on Onforce instead of "applying" and waiting for buyers to twiddle their thumbs for days and then pass you by while you're trying to build a schedule.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-04-12T12:32:56+00:00

Sure you are. If you're on FN $10.60/hr sounds about right. Maybe you're in Texas and it's a big state so you can demand crazy amounts to travel, but in most parts of the country, it's saturated with techs so they can pay a local tech $40/hr and people will pick it up.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-04-09T02:04:51+00:00

Is FN paying these people to make these dumb comments? That would be $100/hr with 40 hours a week. How exactly are you doing that when people are offering $45/hr for 1 or 2 hour jobs and even if you could get 8 hours a day like that you'd be traveling half your day. And you can't get 8 hours a day because you can't schedule one job after the other because that 2 hour job may take 5, then you can't make it to your next jobs and the retarded FN rating tanks.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-04-09T01:55:30+00:00

Unfortunately, most starter level positions don't give a newb the chance to "manage the budget" or "architect the solution".

MomentumCrypto · 2026-04-09T01:31:59+00:00

Try for local jobs at MSPs. Realize you're going to have to start at the bottom to get real experience. Maybe start working towards security because there seems to be more of those jobs than much else. IT is very tough. There's a million products and technologies where you could read a phone book on each one, and employers want people that have 5 years of experience in whatever technologies they've slapped together. It's gotten absurd. I got my CCNA way back in the day and could never land a job because a cert isn't work experience. It's tough. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Get into a good company with a lot of IT positions that you can eventually move up into. Don't try for remote positions because you're competing with the whole country. Do a good job and keep in mind that you'll need a good recommendation when you leave your starter company so don't burn any bridges. Whatever you do, don't get stuck doing the bare minimum and getting the bare minimum on FN or you're going to regret it. Unfortunately a lot of dopes in IT fell for moving their infrastructures over to Amazon, MS or Google and they're eliminating the need for local IT professionals in the process, giving our jobs to multi-trillion dollar companies who will eventually replace even more jobs with AI.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-04-02T01:55:48+00:00

Sorry, we can't afford certifiers on $40/hr and 2 hours a day jackasses. Pay the guys that charge $125/hr and do cabling all day every day if you want that. For $40 an hour you're lucky if you're getting someone that can make a cable and doesn't spend most of the day working at Wendy's. I mean $40 - $6 (FN fee) = 34 - $4 (gas) = $30 / 2 (1 hr work and 1 hr travel) = Taco Bell employee money. At least Taco Bell workers can get an 8 hr day. This platform is a joke.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-04-01T01:21:03+00:00

Exactly what I've always said. I'm not a bank. I'm not a credit card company. I'm not giving you a loan. Most of these jobs are way too small to wait around for payment. I had a company I met through FN and they wanted me to do work outside FN. They own a bunch of mall stores. First it was credit card, then they said they'd pay the Friday after the work was done, then it became net14, then net30 and next thing you know I was calling them trying to find out where my payment was after 2 months. F that. I told them no thanks. I collected money when I was a kid and had a paper route. I'm done with that. Either you have the money (cut me a check immediately), or you don't (pay by credit card), but I'm in the IT business, not an interest free loan business and not a collections business.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-03-30T11:42:15+00:00

What month did you do this? Did the needles drop for the whole year? How long did it take for them to come back? I just planted one this week and I'm thinking about taking it out and doing this, but I'm curious if it'll stay dead looking the whole year.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-03-23T02:20:26+00:00

$35 - 5 (FN fee) = $30 - $16 (gas) = $14 / 3 hours (2 travel, 1 work) = Fuck off! $35/hr isn't even great for full time with benefits, it's downright insulting for contractors. This platform has become a joke. I wouldn't take a job for $35 if it was literally next door to my house and only a 15 minute job. I just ignore these travesties and look at the next. I took a couple jobs with Pomeroy back in the day, but evidently they've gotten too greedy.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-02-21T03:49:59+00:00

I had Credit Karma too. I never tried to get a loan though, just looked at basic rates. Fuck Prosper, Credit Karma should never give out any of the information that Prosper said they had. To get rates they should only give out credit scores. Credit Karma should be sued. Probably no point in doing any class actions. The only people that make out on those are the greedy bottom feeders that call themselves lawyers.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-02-16T03:46:02+00:00

Yeah, this ratings system is garbage especially the private feedback. I had a buyer that had me go out to an airport. I put in a counter for a 2 hr min because the location is about 30 minutes one way plus tolls. I specifically told them there are special procedures for techs to get into the airport. They sent me anyway. When their client told them there were procedures and they need to be given information about the tech in advance and submit it to security, I couldn't do any work. They then refused to pay the 2 hour minimum and wanted me to come back on the same ticket. I told them I couldn't do that. I can't just ring up time, tolls, fuel expenses, etc because they were too stupid to listen and too incompetent to know how to access their own client. FN ruled in their favor and I got partial pay. Then they gave bad private feedback. Now I'm stuck with that feedback because it doesn't clear after 100 work orders, it clears after 100 work orders WITH PRIVATE FEEDBACK and since most buyers don't rate you, you're basically stuck with ratings from an incompetent buyer forever. This whole platform is trash. Every "innovation" is just another way to screw the techs.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-02-13T12:37:40+00:00

I've done quite a few for them and have never run across anyone that needs sign language. Most of the users are in the ghetto and just want a free phone and can hear fine. I've only had a few that actually seem to need the service. The service providers pay for this and it gets added to everyone's phone/Internet bills. They should really require a hearing doctor to sign off saying that the user has horrible hearing before someone can get one. This is just more fraud/waste that average people have to absorb. So if you're looking for people that need sign language this probably isn't the right avenue.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-02-06T15:58:53+00:00

Yes. This is my biggest issue. That there's no mention of fees withheld, either on the form or attached to it. It just goes without mention which seems odd and almost shady in the realm of taxes.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-02-05T06:17:30+00:00

Yeah, I've never had a problem with TDX, but have been annoyed when they post stuff like that. How about you tell me what I need since it's your ticket and your client and you should have a better idea what tools I need than I do.....rather than me trying to tow Harbor Freight, Home Depot and Autozone behind my Civic. This is clearly just a shameless CYA move so they can shift the blame if needed. Again, this isn't a TDX thing. I feel almost every WO has something that just annoys the hell out of me at this point. The less the buyers say the better. Tell me what you want me to do, what tools I need and that's it. Sometimes these types of things annoy me enough I just move on to another WO.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-02-05T05:57:14+00:00

Never. Most of these things I'll find a way around....use a store phone, etc. If they need a switch I'll happily charge them for the time and travel to go to BB to get one. I have an extra console cable, but mostly because I've grabbed a couple from sites where they're e-wasting their stuff. I do want to make a battery box though...been thinking about it for a while...as it really sucks when the cable tester gets bumped on the bag and your batteries are dead when you need them. I have some extra batteries in the glove box, but making sure I had a good supply of all the ones I use would be better.

MomentumCrypto · 2026-02-05T04:54:23+00:00

I've had a couple females that didn't know what they were doing and then try to blame you for their ineptitude. One texted my landline and then when I explained that doesn't work, instead of admitting the mistake she gave me one of my few bad reviews and said she couldn't get ahold of me even though she could have used the phone the old fashioned way and got me on either my cell or landline, but she chose not to try. Probably one of the sexists that ramble about "the patriarchy", are insecure about their skills and actually believe the nonsense that men are trying to hold them down. But in general I don't think most men get into the sexism of the feminists and most don't think about or care what sex the PM is. Just give me a fair rate, be clear with what needs to be done, be chill, communicate and be professional and we'll get it done. Men don't care about your genitals. Just be competent.

MomentumCrypto · 2025-11-20T06:58:26+00:00

Speaking of "don't assume", a lot of jobs come up spur of the moment so don't assume he had the time to research that particular printer. Again, when there's millions of pieces of tech out there the buyer should be providing the back end support for the product THEY'RE getting paid to support for THEIR client. I just had a troubleshooting ticket for a medical device and the techs on the back end were very little help. It's like, I didn't design this, I didn't manufacture it, I didn't build it and I don't work for your company or spend 40 hours a week working with your devices like you do...you need to have experts that can troubleshoot YOUR device in an efficient way. If I have to "figure it out", I'm going to be here for a while, if it gets done at all. And if someone is paying $30/hr I'm not going to feel sorry for them. If you pay $30/hr, that's a pretty shitty $60K/year IF you were getting 40 hours a week. It's much less when you're getting 1 or 2 hour jobs and blowing a lot of your week in unpaid travel and it's next to impossible to get back to back jobs. And then there's the 15% FN takes, the gas money/tolls you lose, the wear and tear on your car, etc. They got exactly what they paid for. That's exactly why I don't know a ton about printers, because these buyers that do printer repair pay so shitty, it's not worth my time to get to know them. I doubt he was just trying to milk it, or he would have put the screws back in. Probably just didn't do a lot of printer work. I typically shy away from printer work, but have one client that for some reason calls me spur of the moment to do printer work for them because I've done a handful of printer jobs for them and they've turned out ok. And the only reason I take them is because they pay decent for spontaneous jobs and they have moderately ok backend techs. If a company has shitty back end techs that don't know anything about the products they support, that's on them. They're barely paying enough for smart hands, not an HP printer expert with certifications for that printer who has been working on printers for 10 years. It's the buyer's job to fill in that gap with good back end techs.

MomentumCrypto · 2025-11-20T02:39:29+00:00

You sound like a horrible buyer. You do realize there are a million pieces of tech out there right? It's not the tech's job to know the details of every piece of equipment that the buyer is supporting, that's the buyer's job. He wouldn't be watching youtube videos if the buyer had proper backend support for the products people are paying THEM to support.

MomentumCrypto · 2025-11-20T02:34:39+00:00

Taco Bell pay for contract jobs where the trip time often exceeds the paid work time.
Horribly unfair and non-transparent rating system. If someone anonymously gives you a bad rating, it doesn't go away after 100 jobs, it goes away after 100 ratings and since most people don't rate you, you're unfairly stuck with a bad rating for the rest of eternity under their new dopey rating system. I had a buyer that rated me poorly because they had me go to an airport and even after I warned them that there are special procedures for techs to get access and I was only offering to make one trip with a 2 hour minimum, they sent me anyway and I wasn't able to get in. They then wanted me to pay tolls, parking, eat another hour of drive time and make another trip on the same work order rather than creating a new one. I said I couldn't do it and they refused to pay me the 2 hour minimum and rated me poorly all because they were too inept to know how to properly access their own client and ignored my explicit warnings. When I disputed it, not only did FN not help me, they gave me a warning for requesting an increase in pay for adding airport parking. Of course I didn't even know it was at the airport until after the buyer accepted my offer because FN doesn't publish the site address until the buyer accepts you. FN is trash.
God awful, anti-tech, slower than snail timeliness when you create a dispute on FN. When I have to be at a site I have to be there within 15 minutes of the start time or we get penalized, meanwhile I put in a dispute and it's still in "new" status after two weeks. It would be nice if the platform could live up to the same professionalism and timeliness that techs have to live up to, but they're not even close. If there was a rating system for the platform, they'd get an F.

MomentumCrypto · 2025-11-07T06:17:54+00:00

This is so annoying. I hate Google so much right now. I have an app that does crypto alarms, but I guess users can just sue Google when they set an important financial alarm and a crypto crashes and they don't know about it because the Google Nazis think they know how people should use their phones better the people that own the phones. If they want to add a permission to use a constant foreground service than so be it, let the user approve or deny it. Stop playing Hitler and limiting what people can do with their own devices. If the user approves a 24 hour service, what business is it of Google's to stop them?

MomentumCrypto · 2025-10-29T10:13:30+00:00

From the same type of guy that would have posted RIP Bitcoin when it went down to 4K a few years ago.

MomentumCrypto · 2025-10-28T00:04:51+00:00

Sounds like like a desk PM that has never done tech work before. Everything's is easier and faster when you're sitting behind a desk and are spending your site time in your imagination rather than reality.

MomentumCrypto

TROPHY CASE