u/netsurfer79

Cannot tell you how many times this came in handy and saved me a ton of money doin my own car repairs. Now I check with AI first before working on my car

The company never explicitly revokes my ability to go on lunch, it's just sometimes the way the work is handed out I can't go on lunch or it would disrupt productivity like today for example.

I work as an IT technician and do 5-6 jobs a day in a 9 hour shift. I have a 30 minute lunch break I can take anytime after the second job of the day.

The thing is, the system allocates jobs based on urgency and the timing I have to reach work. About 90% of the time, within 30 seconds of completing a job, another one is dropped on me at any given time. If I don't put myself on lunch in that 30 seconds, I can still do so after a job is assigned but there's a caveat.

I have to leave the vicinity of my currently closed job and not be in the vicinity of the next one. Also fine. Here's where it gets tricky. If they give me a job and that customer is expecting me within the next 30 minutes, I will be penalized for going on lunch.

This is an issue with the scheduling system. They only recommend when I can take lunch and not mandate it.

If I take lunch when there is an expected timeframe of arrival, I will get dinged.

30 minutes of personal time is not at all enough imo for a 9 hour shift but then again, with how hectic it isz most of my lunches are not spent idle. I will usually receive another job within an hour and have to be efficient. Usually I will be eating food I brought from home in my car while at stop signs. There's hardly time to sit and have a proper "lunch". If I finish eating early, Ill usually have to organize tools or wires or still do something work related so I don't fall behind on my "metrics".

This is getting pretty insane tbh and don't know what to do or if this legally acceptable.

I have 2+ years of committed, driven work ethic contributions in field IT Service and Telecom work. My hands on skills are very sharp.

I am 3 months into doing fiber optic and coax installation and troubleshooting and I'm feeling this work is so underpaid and pointless for my skill set where I can be doing much better. I mean I get the job market is pretty garbage right now but come on!

I've went to LinkedIn and indeed and seen DC technician job postings getting filled 100+ applicants in 24 hours with people who think they can work with their hands and eyes but have never touched a drill.

I have the experience, I've been working with my hands installing devices for last 10 years and working in the field for 2. I understand fiber optics, sfps, basic networking concepts, routing and switching, cable management and can even terminate cat5/cat6 cables and working with high voltage power bays and I'm getting offers for $20/hr for DC tech positions. The only reason I haven't left working for an ISP doing field work is because the pay is better than these lowball offers but the career mobility is trash.

What more can I do to secure a role within a DC for any position? I can't continue doing ISP work.

Why has it needed to get to the point where near half a millions daily commute is affected creating lost business for thousands of New York Small Businesses and Lost revenue for hundreds of other New York Companies for the fucktards of this bureaucracy to realize that our tax dollars need to be spent on properly compensating the ones who keep this system functional?

A couple extra dollars won't cause the millionaires yachts to go underwater DW.

Management has been getting on us about going to the tap and taking readings from there because they catching a lot of guys slacking measuring signal levels for the tap from the cpe of GB rather than actually going out to the tap.

This is just cause they're too lazy to get to the roof or go to to the lockbox or maybe just wanting to do the job quicker for metrics sake.

I make sure to run by the tap no matter where it is and measure correctly, hence the punny nickname

2 weeks ago, sold my financed vehicle which I still owed $5.5k on before selling and all my lenders are now reporting 17-20 points increase on my credit after the vehicle was fully paid off. Wow, never financing another vehicle again

When travelling long distance, cook your meals hours before, preferably a day and when the food is cool, transfer to storage containers and freeze.

Just before leaving home, pull out from freezer and carry with you. I usually have a 2.5 hour train ride or 1.5 hour drive to work.

This method helps prevent spoilage when it's warmer especially during the summer. By the time you reach, it may not be thawed yet keeping that food fresh and free of spoilage