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Re: Incoming price increase to all customers said by Network Guy:Cablevision already outsources service installers. I suppose they will now also outsource techs.
I mean when it comes right down to it, the job of a cable tech is menial at best, and I work in the IT industry.
Haven't met an "IT" guy yet that can back up his so called credentials. I have met a dozen or so self proclaimed "IT" guys over the years that really worked for the Geek Squad and were total idiots. IT is such a vast term that anyone who can set up a router calls themselves an IT expert nowadays. Hell, if they can set up a DMZ host or port forward they REALLY know their shit! Lol. What a joke. Know your place in the food chain because I know there are tens of thousands of IT people like yourself making $11 per hour at a help desk getting the CEO's secretary who makes 3x your pay rate logged back into her computer. Talk about an entry level position. |
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| Umm.. Okay.. Guess I struck a nerve and my comment was perhaps uncalled for. It's been my experience that beyond running and crimping coax, setting up STBs and calling "home" to activate, that's just about the full scope of work I've witnessed cable guys do. Trust me, I've had people tell me all I do is sit here all day long and do absolutely nothing.
Not many realize this but a good IT guy is usually the one employee that everyone hardly calls. The "IT" guy who talks the most shit is usually not worth his weight on paper. And yes, there are many of us "IT" guys out there who are like this. Sorry you've had to contend with them.
Personally, I run a small home care agency where I am. I'm paid much more than $11/hr, and I'm usually the go-to guy for the same dumbass questions regarding the system day in and day out. What I don't get called on at all is about a server or network down situation, and that to me personally signifies a well-run shop. |
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| said by Network Guy:What I don't get called on at all is about a server or network down situation, and that to me personally signifies a well-run shop.
How many "management" types don't grasp this concept. 
They think if you are NOT running around like an idiot, you are not doing your job...
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| Fortunately where I am they don't have a choice but to understand that. It's one of the few perks of being a one-man IT shop.
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