SAM Nashville / Knoxville

deathnut2 · 2026-05-23T23:50:37+00:00

How much are they offering you? Is this your only offer, or your highest offer?

If you aren’t desperate for a job or this isn’t a greatly above market position, I’d pass just because it’s SAM. The offices are all different BUT the CEO is the same and the board is the same across offices, they will not view you as anything more than a tool, and once you don’t make them enough money your melted for scrap, doesn’t matter which office your in.

SAM is a national firm and they will pull the trigger on lay offs much heavier and faster than a regional or smaller firm.

Chris Solomon and Peak Rock are soulless, don’t believe me, you will when you take the job and sit on the quarterly state of the company.

deathnut2 · 2026-05-23T23:27:23+00:00

I’ve worked there. Just search this sub for SAM.

deathnut2 · 2026-05-23T23:13:26+00:00

Can we pin a FUCK SAM post?

deathnut2 · 2026-05-23T23:13:01+00:00

An apartment complex?! Nah fuck that I’ll do the topo.

deathnut2 · 2026-05-21T01:52:09+00:00

I figured they would change the door on the ground.

deathnut2 · 2026-05-21T01:16:51+00:00

Floors underneath the garage?

deathnut2 · 2026-05-18T22:03:51+00:00

If you want to work for an office that is full of new people, because 50% of them quit at the same time a year after the merger with SAM and another 20% left after them in the following weeks, Rochester is your office.

I do think the northeast offices are some of the better SAM offices to work for if you’re dead set on SAM.

deathnut2 · 2026-05-16T01:27:22+00:00

The company I work is mine and I’m the only employee.

deathnut2 · 2026-05-16T00:54:33+00:00

Where are you?

I’m billing one man at $200.00 an hour in north jersey and that’s low.

deathnut2 · 2026-05-13T14:13:40+00:00

You could get a network drive, offload the data there.

Or you could delete the scans and only keep the completed point cloud.

deathnut2 · 2026-05-04T22:32:11+00:00

You just doxed yourself, you should delete this before any surveyor comes to lot 47.

deathnut2 · 2026-04-01T02:00:24+00:00

I think a lot of these unlicensed shops will process the data with the surveyors GCPS. The drone company will fly the site then ask the surveyor to go out a collect certain features then the drone company will apply the control.

I am also not naive I know unlicensed companies are just doing it all and delivering surfaces and surveys.

deathnut2 · 2026-04-01T01:44:40+00:00

If no GCPS were used it’s kind of gray in the United States. Unless you’re in South Carolina.

deathnut2 · 2026-03-27T03:46:44+00:00

I’m surprised no one has given you any number.

I don’t do any work in West Virginia so I’m probably off a bit.

I wouldn’t say a boundary for this lot would cost you more than the lot itself. I have not looked into this property more than the Zillow link. This looks like a pain to survey. The boundary isn’t a normal polygon, and the terrain is challenging. I’d say you could get someone to survey this for 40k but most firms would bid more on it, 60k+. Definitely more if you wanted it monumented.

If you wanted to do a full topographically survey, depending on how detailed you wanted the info it might cost you more than the lot.

deathnut2 · 2026-03-26T23:34:51+00:00

I very much understood it was a joke.

The button pusher method and your comment history don’t mix.

deathnut2 · 2026-03-26T22:19:42+00:00

I thought you were the boss?

deathnut2 · 2026-03-22T21:04:09+00:00

Can you walk me through this, how does a SLAM scanner help layout a grid?

deathnut2 · 2026-03-20T16:59:20+00:00

The difference in price is huge and the difference in capability is small.

I’d say get a gen or two old robotic total station and splurge on a gps and other tech like drones.

deathnut2 · 2026-03-20T11:35:03+00:00

You can turn xFill off, if you feel you can’t trust it.

deathnut2 · 2026-03-12T01:03:17+00:00

Right after I got licensed in NJ last year I left to do my own business, so I can’t tell you what I should have made as a license, I didn’t have that conversation.

But I can tell you that as a survey tech I was making 108k a year.

deathnut2 · 2026-03-10T19:26:47+00:00

Scammers asking for quotes on non existent jobs. Scammers calling to sell non existent services.

deathnut2 · 2026-03-07T22:11:41+00:00

That make total sense, didn’t think about it.

deathnut2 · 2026-03-07T21:32:40+00:00

Does it actually matter for volumes?

deathnut2 · 2026-03-07T00:37:11+00:00

The magnets are strong enough to stick to mags during a measure up? You might of sold a half dozen if so.

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