r/FieldNationTechs

Took a work order to relocate 3 APs, 2 of which needed new cable runs.

Ran the cable, got everything mounted, and 2 of the 3 APs came up fine.

The third wasn't working, and before I could finish troubleshooting, the office closed and I had to leave.

Buyer wants me back Monday to finish.

Problem is I already have another work order booked Monday.

When I told him that, he sounded upset.

I'm not trying to walk away from it. I'm willing to come back another day later in the week. But now I'm worried he'll try to hold back pay for the whole job over the one AP, even though the runs and relocations are done.

For those who've been here:

Can a buyer withhold pay for completed work over one unresolved device?

Should I wait to close out the work order completely?

I worked for this company cutting tile and gluing it down, I went to the site with a pair of heavy duty shears (which were doing the job pretty good) and they said that was not good enough. I said “okay, what would work for this type of job” and she recommended a utility knife. I went to the hardware store to buy said utility knife (not a cheap one, it’s from Milwaukee.) I get back to site just for the knife not to work. Field nation believes I should’ve been prepared for the job, but even if it said to bring the utility knife on-site, it wouldn’t have work. I’m thinking it would’ve been a different outcome if the work order said “bring utility knife” but unfortunately it said “bring the appropriate tools” I drove 250 miles total just to get $0. Am I in the wrong?

Charles changes terms/schedule multiple times on week-long four man job. Company team was there nitpicking and redirecting my team. BS complaints about breaks on 11hr days. Seemed more interested in going to twin peaks after the job each day. Didn't reimburse for multiple boxes genspeed cat 6. Pretends not to know how to use fn to delay approval. Try to blame tech for rework when we were following his cable path what's his mapping software, turns out several cables were over 350 ft. He didn't know where the idfs were in the building, some we didn't find till the last day. Was complaining about the price of cable the whole time. He didn't buy enough cable for the job and complained that we wasted like 30 ft at the end of some runs when we had to pull loose lengths out so that we weren't doing multiple pulls to the same room. Also whatever brand of cameras they were using the cloud software seems all right but the cameras themselves suck and he couldn't stop talking about what a great partnership it was.

Oooooo mmmmm ggggg yall

I got assigned one of Level 10’s Public Storage conversion jobs. I did the first one in my town, so another is easy peasy. A day after getting that, Tailwind calls and offers me the network portion of the same Public Storage site. I politely tell them I already had the pc part and would take it if they were ok. She pssh’d at me and said no thanks. Whatever.

So I arrive on site an hour late because the equipment pickup started the shit show because of a wrong address. I get there, apologize for the lateness, and get to work. Find out it’s only one pc and a printer. Easy peasy! But where’s the tailwind guy? No matter. I continue on and finally Mr. “I just got back from the beach” rolls in with his button up Hawaiian shirt, shorts, and hey dudes. And a Starbucks in hand.

I immediately ask “Shorts?”

He says “Yeah, I’m an independent contractor”

“No shit, so am I”

So I let him know he should test all six lines, convert the 2 RJ11 jacks to RJ45’s, and label both ends.

“Now which one is the phone jack”

Really dude? So then I proceed to watch this fool bounce from the front to the back. I walk up on him and he’s watching a video on how to terminate an RJ45. Like for real??? Did you just buy these tools before you got here?

I ask him how long he’s been doing this and he says “since 2024”. December 2024?

He had to remake the cable like 3 times before he got it right.

I told him to go home and make a pile of patch cables before he took another job.

I currently have an iPhone 13 Pro Max and a ZFold 4.

I found iPhone 13 to be better in every aspect except the Zfold’s large inside screen.

Now it’s getting time to buy a new phone and I’m on the fence. I see 3 different options in front of me:

iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone Air and iPhone Duo.

Which route would each of you recommend based on your own experiences?

anyone even get an email telling you a work order has been removed from the market place but the work order still shows as available in app and on web? Noticed it had a few counters (5) until I got that email and now I'm the only counter offer 1

(1) New FN issue?? Will leave my counter in but it does seem weird