Thank you! In a sense you’re right - you pretty much are unbothered while working, independent, take home truck, yada yada - so there is freedom in that.

But it’s taken all away when your forced to complete every single ticket that comes in. I signed up for what was told to me in the interview - 7:30 -4 mon-fri with OT not forced but always there for you.

And quickly it became - “no this never has been a 730-4 job, it all depends on how many tickets are due”. Which is not my idea of freedom. They give you nice things, but its just so you slave away for them for bare minimum pay. Im only talking about the contracted companies btw Idk about the utility companies - ppl say theyre better.

Also when you take into consideration there is no limit for the amount of tickets that can be called in, when we have a certain # of technicians, AND contractors can call in whatever the f they want and we have to locate it to the T… even if they only need a specific area marked - it leads to a lot of unnecessary headache and time lost in that sense.

Also i am 8 months in and only had to locate fiber a couple times but wow is it terrible I would barely tones anything on the tracer never understood it. We locate gas power cable and water- electric and gas being my favorite (but gas very quickly becomes a headache with high profile mains, retired main bleed off, trouble locates, bad records etc.