MST home dispatch tech use and abuse company assets. They drive 100K-200K bucket trucks to their home and back to their home garage everyday. Big V8 6.3 L engines use a lot of gas and insurance on top. Also, with MST high pay and only have .5 job per tech a day per tech how is that saving company money and liability.
There are rules to follow when joining home dispatch program. Following the rules helps save gas and time and wear and tear on a vehicle used to drive to work and to home. But MSTs abuse this program from driving to the garage every day and dispatching at the garage. Making a stop at the grocery store to grocery shop in the company vehicle before driving home. Not closing your last job at the job site and instead, drive home and being still dispatched on your work ticket and then closing the job when you arrive home. I follow the rules, and I do not want the home dispatch program to go away because of MSTs taking advantage of the abuse. Also, MST managers are favoring many MSTs and letting the home dispatch MSTs do what ever they want. STOP ABUSING THE HOME DISPATCH PROGRAM YOU MSTs. You know who you are...
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@1wk
Keep crying about it. Sorry you have to show upto work on time. Take your breaks and lunch in a timely manner. Stay till the end of your work day is done. But all of that is really what your issue is right? Like some other fool said (maybe it was you), quit and go work somewhere else from your couch. You do have an option champ.
@1wj
Funny argument. Obviously the company doesnt believe you can work without adult supervision so they need you in the office to keep an eye on you. As for home dispatch...well, still parking in my driveway. LMAO
@1jf you act like it matters where someone sits or what they’re wearing. Has zero impact on delivering results. D-mbest argument yet.
@1kz
Why would i quit? What a mo--nic statement. If home garage ends ill get in my truck and drive to the shop and go out to work from there. I wont come to a layoff sight butthurt that my cozy days of laying around the house with no supervision answering phones and emails is over. How about you quit? Then you can quit whining and crying about being forced to return to the office like people have been doing for 100 years.
@1jf Boo hoo… get over it or quit.
Now RTO like the rest of us. No more cutting corners. Wake up, drive your personal vehicle to the garage, take the company truck out and actually work, return it to the garage, drive your personal vehicle back home. It’s not hard and has been done for decades. The company cannot afford you using the company vehicle for personal errands. End home dispatch now!
@tg
Home garage techs leave their house everyday to goto work. Big difference in that and sitting at the kitchen counter in your pajamas all day answering calls and emails.
If we must RTO then techs must also. Do the right thing and end home dispatch.
So do a lot of lineman in the USA. What a scorned individual.
That’s for their manager to deal with.
If I have to return to the office so do our techs! #endhomedispatch
Yeah no idea of all the variables that would need to go into that cost analysis but as Stankey said “there’s a lot of rocks that can be turned over”.
Have the rules changed? Had a group of 14 techs in a rural area. Those who misused the program had the privileges taken away. Not in that world anymore so don’t know what has changed. However if the workload has gone down like some say it has and there are techs with little to do perhaps the cost benefit has changed. If there are indeed techs with little to do it might not be worth it to save 20 minutes on a dispatch overall compared to all the other costs associated with the program. The technology available has changed. With the driving directions apps you can find any location pretty easily. I would imagine that AI can take all those variables and come up with a cost analysis. Need to start thinking more globally about the possibilities with all the new technology. In my mind you could possibly eliminate the program with the associated costs, keep some techs busy and eliminate the potential of some surpluses. 1 to 2 years pay can add up a lot of 20 minute savings in dispatches. He-l there’s might be some older techs who would give it up if they had to start using their personal vehicles.
I want to know what date they were given for home dispatch being taken away from his group?
And he can't even get the engine right. They're 6/7L!! LOL
Good grief. If you know who they are, report them. There are rules for that, too.
He’s back…
Wash, rinse, repeat
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At least the 4th time this exact same thing has been posted---think up something new
You’re boring everyone and no one cares.
ummm I believe this is a layoff forum!! not a whine and cheese site!!
Here we go again, the same old copy and paste.
.5 jobs per day? Who's doing that? Making the rest of us look bad doing a weeks worth of work in one day.
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