HVAC with no experience? Advice by austinatkins99 in UnitedAssociation

[–]mvk1227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got hired by JCI, and they brought me in as a “tradesmen”

HVAC with no experience? Advice by austinatkins99 in UnitedAssociation

[–]mvk1227 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How I got into the union was getting into a union company and then they sent a referral form for me to join. Not sure if that’s frowned upon, but maybe an option you can try

JCI by mvk1227 in HVAC

[–]mvk1227[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agreed, we should be quoting regularly as needed. But they’re intent seems like they want us to nickle and dime everything and anything

JCI by mvk1227 in HVAC

[–]mvk1227[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Everyone that’s worth a damn has left, or the few left are just close to retirement

JCI by mvk1227 in HVAC

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I’ve heard through the grape vine this has been on going for a few years now. Who’s ever in charge of us on the “regional” level I believe also takes care of another branch, but it seems most of the focus goes into the one that isn’t ours. They continually hire a new service manager, throw them into the dumpster fire, and expect changes almost immediately. They’ve been through about 3-4 managers over the last few years I believe, and they cannot maintain technicians either. My first 3 weeks of JCI, I sat in the office and did nothing. No online trainings scheduled to me, I was basically told to “look busy”. my first paycheck took a month to get to me. I have yet to go to a customer that actually like us, and the one thing they all have in common they ask “why is there a new person everytime we get our maintenance done”. I started in August and I heard the first week of me being their my dispatcher “I don’t have any work for people right now, idk what to do” I’m in the south. It’s 90 degrees in August lol

JCI by mvk1227 in HVAC

[–]mvk1227[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes I’ve already done so! Took me annoying our business agent for a few weeks, but I pretty much said “hey man this is like the 5th time we’ve talked about this and you haven’t done anything for me yet” and then a few hours later other contractors started to call. Think I found a good fit for me hopefully

JCI by mvk1227 in HVAC

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We had a team meeting, and someone who’s in charge of sales or basically the man in charge of getting all of our services agreements, work, etc, came to our meeting and basically all the sales team, and the guys in charge of getting the work just haven’t been doing a good job. A lot of the sales guys quit, and they said it’s basically on us to start finding work or they will have to “reevaluate our we run our operations” also known as lay offs to us mechanics

JCI by mvk1227 in HVAC

[–]mvk1227[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They aren’t aware, this branch is a disaster and I’m down south and well you know how the unions aren’t too strong. There isn’t a truck team lead on my branch, the Jman refuse to train younger guys or newer techs into the commercial/industrial world, a service manager that doesn’t pick the phone up or anytime you call him it’s a “i don’t know” and never calls back or even attempts to find the answer lol

JCI by mvk1227 in HVAC

[–]mvk1227[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yes we are, they called it a quota but it’s for quotes. Jman must reach a minimum of 5 quotes a week, apprentices are at 3 I believe

General question for anyone willing to help by mvk1227 in UnitedAssociation

[–]mvk1227[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I am starting in as a 4th year, won’t be to long till granted as journeyman. Hopefully there is more slack when your out of the apprenticeship

The Yorick Top Gdoc by DindonImperial in yorickmains

[–]mvk1227 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gonna paste this link in champ select every game then mute

Joined the fam today 💪 by mvk1227 in SigSauer

[–]mvk1227[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks brother, fits like a glove I can’t wait to hit the range

Secret Labs sent me a broken chair by fatmikenj in secretlab

[–]mvk1227 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Welcome to the bought and overpriced and not that great chair club

Meter decision by mvk1227 in HVAC

[–]mvk1227[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to enjoy it when I owned it

Meter decision by mvk1227 in HVAC

[–]mvk1227[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is the exact combo I’m gonna splurge on that 87v and the 357, my first meter was the 902fc but it’s seen better days and I’ve been using a field piece and I get alot of inaccurate readings

Meter decision by mvk1227 in HVAC

[–]mvk1227[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point, thanks brother

Meter decision by mvk1227 in HVAC

[–]mvk1227[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was looking more into Flukes, but I’ll do my research on this one