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First I will say I am one of those guys.
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Maybe you were the 1 out of 10 that came to my house that was good
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Second work is like a marathon some guys are extremely fast, but make many errors, others are very slow and make very few errors, then there are alot of guys in between.
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I could be wrong but my feeling is the Union as a whole takes care of the guys that are average or subpar but not much for the great ones.
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When I started 15 years ago a guy had to do 2- 2.5 repairs a day. Then it was raised every year. The number is not so much for us as much as it is to keep from paying managers their yearly bonuses for not making their quota.
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I’m in sales and I have to produce each year and build off the year before. If I don’t they will be looking for someone to replace me. It not only makes me work harder and try to achieve more, but it also gives me satisfaction in reaching a new goals.
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When you make the number they say, hmm he made it we need to raise the bar. At what point does the bar stop being raised? Seriously there is way more to doing a job than most people think, like not climbing a pole in front of your house until you inspect that pole, and the ones on each side. This alone takes approximately 10-15 minutes per pole. Multiply that by the number of climbs it takes for a guy working off of a ladder all day and you start to see some discrepancy between ladder guys, and bucket truck guys. But we all have the same target number. So my friend it is not as simple as you make it seem.  |
Great point, I totally agree that it’s not apples to apples (my buddy’s were more in the city and didn’t have to deal with poles too much). But if productivity stays the same and does not increase then it would be hard to justify future raises etc. Maybe the system to evaluate needs to be changed so that guys aren’t hitting say 4 completes before lunch and expected to shut down for the day by their peers.
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As your second point Verizon is not increasing prices to pay more for us, we are pretty much looking to keep what we have. They will not however lower your bill if we settle for less. In the free market the consumer is going to set the price, right now Verizon is beating the pants off of the competition when it comes to that. FWIw they made in the neighborhood of 16 Billion last year and because of tax loopholes paid very little in income tax.
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They is not only the managers and Verizon executives, “they” are the shareholders. Verizon has a very high stock dividend yield and many investors (some probably guys on this site) are the “they” sharing in the profits via stocks, dividends, 401K etc.