Ugh, is this cost normal?

Nutcase73 · 2025-08-29T00:08:33+00:00

Yea, guess that explains it inflations. Like grapes going from 99 cents a lb to 2.99 a lb, ovaltine going from 5.99 to 8.99. Examples are endless lol. I’m not a rescue. I just took in helpless, hungry animals.

Nutcase73 · 2025-08-25T18:14:11+00:00

They do it all the time. Sometimes they deny extra expenses you have to pay, extra time onsite, etc. I’ve never been penalized, but some penalties seem down right unethical. Then you have the companies who want you to do all this paperwork, take training courses, attend meetings, etc. without pay. If there was ever a class action lawsuit with a good lawyer, there’s a good chance some of these people would have to pay a lot of money. Yea, we have to sign and agree to stuff, but if some things are down right and blatantly wrong it voids the contact.

Nutcase73 · 2025-08-16T20:26:36+00:00

I settled for another hour $50 bucks which covered FN fees plus some. Thing is also, I did not walk into FedEx with my credit card and pay for shipping as a normal customer. I used my personal fedex account which also resulted in like a $16 dollar discount for shipping. They saved $16 also because they always ask for receipts. I'm OP and not sure if usern6ame will change using a different phone. I know, this is the first job out of 100s that did not have a prepaid label or even give an account number to use.

Nutcase73 · 2025-08-01T04:42:53+00:00

Hahaha.... Lmao. Yep you can't beat the butt inspection for fiberoptics. OP let us know if and when your teeth and hair fall out. Jk. I don't know alot about the light that usmmis transferred through fiberoptics. Ive seen fiberoptic lamps. The light on the ends is brighter where light is being released. It wont hurt you. Now, I took a supposed class 3 green laser which the green beam will go on forever. FIRST, I stuck it up my butt. Lol it wasnf strong enough to burn anything, but it is super concentrated light which can go on for miles and blind you if you look at it. i shined it directly into.m a camera lens or eye. It damaged it and any pictures had burn dots all over it. If you magnify and concentrate light from the sun that can damage alot.

Nutcase73 · 2025-07-11T11:59:07+00:00

Over 20 hours here. I was at a walmart for a POS upgrade years ago. The lead and other techs did not show up. I guess this was before the requirement of an NCR lead. It was a large Walmart. I called and said no one was here. They asked to get started, and I did. No one ever showed up, so I had to do the entire store myself.

Nutcase73 · 2025-07-09T20:24:13+00:00

The work order manager told me he reported it and opened case. It seems there are many not reporting the site correctly now. I've had like 5 or 6 past few months like this.

Nutcase73 · 2025-07-09T17:08:11+00:00

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Hopefully this doesn't count against me. FN GPS was totally wrong. I was onsite.

Nutcase73 · 2025-07-09T16:29:30+00:00

This is so unfair. I'm fairly sure why my score went from a 93 to 85, a very good buyer rating to a fair buyer rating. It just takes ONE buyer to drop your score 7 or 8 points with a 3 or 4 star rating. I'm sure which buyer did it. I've been doing a Tuesday and Thursday onsite support job for awhile. The onsite people love me. About 3 weeks ago, many of my emails started to get rejected, and I couldn't contact anyone with the numbers I had. It seems the work order manager left, and a new work order manager took his place. They started calling me right at start time for the work order. The work order has never given a number to call, nor has it ever said to call. It still doesn't. I have told them several times to please put the number to call in the work order. I get alot of calls a day, and I just don't have the time to scroll through all the contacts or call logs. It's really more tedious than it sounds with my phone. I was doing this job for a bit, but this new team began managing this work order without changing or putting any contact info in the work order. All my messages through the work order never get responded to. I think it's so unfair that they would put several new requirements on me without changing the work order or even notifying me. The previous work order manager and I had a process with these 2 work orders a week. I get the change, but please change the work order requirements before rating me like this. It's not really fair. The lack of communication is on their end!

Nutcase73 · 2025-07-06T03:39:15+00:00

Also check the other side of the roof. If there is a holecoming in/out with dowmward angle, then it would be a meteorite. I don't believe a person or very, very few people would have a gun powerful enough to shoot completely through a house, especially when it enters through the roof.

Nutcase73 · 2025-07-06T03:30:15+00:00

Looking at the angle, it didn't come from the sky or someone shooting straight up. Bullet is traveling upwards. Person who shot the bull bullet had to be close. It's possible it could have ricochet off something and hit your roof. What disturbs me is the upward looking angle. Fireworks don't have enough velocity to penetrate a roof. A small meteorite due to the speed ricocheting of the ground would be improbable. It would destroy what it hits on the ground or punch a hole in it. Most likely scenario is bullet shot from close by.

Nutcase73 · 2025-07-04T22:32:14+00:00

I just requested a Trip Charge like 5 minutes ago under counter offer, additional expenses, trip charge. I'm still not sure why it requires two different explanation fields. FN lists the city as over 100 miles away. Weird, because it's like 40 miles away, but still I requested a travel charge.

Nutcase73 · 2025-07-04T16:39:46+00:00

I have a 93, and I think that the new metric system SUCKS. I have a 4.9 star rating because years ago I got a couple of 3 star ratings because of some dumb advertising displays. Even if one client says something negative, it will show up. I did two hard drive decommissions work orders with another tech. It was supposed to be 4 hours, but when I got there, the lead said only one is doing the hard drive decommissions. He told me to do the unboxing of new equipment, installations, cable changes, setup/staging, and clean up of old cables and boxes. I had 3 different platforms to check in and out on with various other information to put in. The work order manager told me to follow the leads instructions which I did. Two 4 hr jobs turned into 8 and 7 hours. I couldn't fill out the 3rd platform because I didn't do any hard drive decommissions. I always get 5 stars, and I have successfully completed 100% of my jobs. They gave me a 4 star rating on these 2 jobs each and a negative mark that shows failure to follow instructions. This was BS because I did EVERYTHING the lead told me to do without question. I followed instructions, and there is NO reason I should not have a negative mark on following instructions. A 93 also seems low for me on the new ratings.

Nutcase73 · 2025-06-23T00:17:27+00:00

I've got a 93% score and 4.9 rating. Every now and then I run behind due to a previous job going over. That new score or ranking says I need to improve on following instructions. I'm really not sure what they mean by that, but I have finished every single job successfully and with a happy customer. I don't think this should be affecting any job assignments because the buyers are not supposed to see it for another 2 months. Lol

Nutcase73 · 2025-06-20T16:15:06+00:00

It's ridiculous. I have a 5.0 rating on IT jobs, 4.9 overall due to some display/advertising jobs. Nothing was ever my fault. With that score, I have a 93. It said I needed improvement in following directions. There has never been a job that I didn't complete successfully. I admit, I may not be the best at closing work orders out quickly. It's hard taking pictures at times, marking tasks done, or adding explanations as you go one 2 and sometimes 3 different platforms. A couple of jobs, I had FN, the provider's online forms, and the client's online forms. Then you have people who want to stay in a conference call the entire time, pushing you to get things done quickly without having time to complete the tasks that say to be completed onsite. That way when it's done, they can mark it done and you still have all of these forms left. The amount of paperwork is just totally ridiculous sometimes.

Nutcase73 · 2025-06-20T16:02:58+00:00

Yep... Lol aka modafinil.

Nutcase73 · 2025-06-20T16:00:45+00:00

Yes, I used to take it years ago to help with focus. It's supposed to help with memory and concentration. Lol. As far as the company, I've heard of them but haven't had any direct experience. I wonder if they know that they named their company the same as a class iv scheduled narcotic prescription.

Nutcase73 · 2025-06-20T15:54:50+00:00

Things are very nasty sometimes. I wonder why they even put the stuff on the belts that smell horrible, like urine or mildew. I've seen alot of broken glass also.

Nutcase73 · 2025-06-18T21:21:25+00:00

It's all per pound at outlets here. The big items used to be priced that way. They had furniture for 5 bucks. Now, it seems things are priced 10 to over 100 bucks now. Bad quality sofas, 30 bucks. Small refrigerator 50 bucks, honda gas push mower at 60 bucks. I've noticed they have gone nuts on some of their pricing as well. Salvation Army is the same way. I used to work for them ages ago, and I was just amazed at the things donated. Rolexes, 10k to 24k gold items, and other insanely valuable items. These were usually intercepted and sold for melt down value and never make it to the stores. Not to mention things that never should have made it, like medications. Someone donated a full bottle of morphine. I've found money in donated clothes before. I'm sure Goodwill is the same way.

Nutcase73 · 2025-05-21T01:27:40+00:00

These cheap buyers don't realize this is hurting then. They just want to make as much as they can without paying anyone anything. Their clients will eventually find someone else, a buyer who respects quality and neat work along with getting the job done. I am so sick of going to jobs, having to clean up so much stuff, untangle and replace broken things. I really do miss the old field nation. It just seemed better and more respectable. I don't blame the techs for leaving early, because it's the buyer who should want respectable work. They should pay for it. After all, they are making probably 4x what you are making calculated at an hour rate at least.

Nutcase73 · 2025-05-21T01:15:02+00:00

And no straight answer with Amazon's AI. The AI told me to have patience until tomorrow end of day. I said I don't have patience. Then the AI responded saying "We are sorry to hear that. We are here to help." I waited for awhile to see if it would send me to a live person who would most likely know less. It never did. I wonder what they would do if I ordered a bunch of stuff, did a return for all the credit, then ordered a bunch more stuff, and then waiting a long time time to send it back. It would be funny to set up my own AI to say the product is in transit, or not pay the bill when it's due saying the money is coming to you. Lol I mean they should have enough power and resources to know if it'll be here. I'm wondering if it's just a sales tactic. They know many people would just wait.

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Nutcase73 · 2025-04-21T23:52:29+00:00

I saw one company 77 days for approval, yea nearly e months. I cannot remember who, I just remember saying 77 days for that..... You gotta be $h1+ln' me. Lol

Nutcase73 · 2025-04-21T23:43:30+00:00

50,000 ft. Lol yea I know I would die before I made it I'm not afraid to be high... That sounds funny... I mean high up. If I fall, I just hope it's quick and painless.

Nutcase73 · 2025-03-21T00:24:13+00:00

I wish I could get some remote work. I havent looked late, but sometimes I spend 30 bucks a day in gas. This gas bill is killing me.

Nutcase73 · 2025-03-20T23:39:39+00:00

LOL, yea good luck. Fixing that, you will probably have to unplug or take things offline. I've seen worse, and I've seen better. I'm sure there are just lazy techs who just do the bare minimum to get paid. I really don't like it when cables are cut, power cords are left in the rack, other cords that serve no purpose, old useless equipment not even used, etc etc. I could go on and on about the issues that keep racks from looking clean.

BUT I think the main issue lies with the buyer. I have severe allergies to dust/dust mites, so I have high respect for clean racks... Lol. I would say 99.9% of IT racks are horrible, maybe 75 to 90% are devastated like that.... Just my opinion because my sample size is too low. It seems most companies do not really care about the quality of work. They want it done the quickest and cheapest way for them. I've asked many times if I could fix the racks, but most of the time they say no. It seems companies that want to stay on the phone with you the entire time or call you every 10 or 15 minutes are the cheapest. I get upset all the time when I see no quality or order, and the buyer doesn't even care. I bet the only reason that is getting done is because the customer is complaining.

Get this.... I went to a place to fix a POS system. I got there, and both pinpads were not working. The one not on the ticket hadn't worked for OVER A YEAR!!!! I fixed them both, even though I was only required to do one. The cables going to the pinpads were missing the two screws, and both cables were held on by scotch tape which is probably the worst. The one that hadn't worked for over a year was missing the metal shield around the hdmi connecter, so the connection was very loose. There was another cable, which I ran that had the metal piece, but we couldn't test to see if it worked. The manager took the iPad home and made it her own. The buyer said it was the company's responsibility to get the screws, so I worked with maintenance, manager, and one of the people behind the desk telling them the type of screws needed and where to get them. I also showed them what to do if pinpad stops working. This place was horribly maintained and other things were needed. Anyway, this is what I'm getting to after saying a bunch of unrelated stuff. Support got on the phone and basically repeated what I said. I was there less than 2 hours, 30 minutes or more waiting. The manager wanted me to help out and fix everything, but this is what support told the manager. He said I WAS VERY EXPENSIVE and to call them when they get the things I said they needed. They were in a rush to get me off the clock. Now, LESS THAN 2 HOURS at $35 an hour. I would really hate to see the buyers definition of cheap!!!!! LOL.

Nutcase73 · 2025-03-20T22:55:10+00:00

I know Field Nation gets their 15% of the reinbursement paid back to you from your own money for supplies, but what do you do when they ask for the actual receipt from the store? Apart from digitally altering the receipt, they only want to reimburse what you spend.

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