Started the day with 71 tickets in my queue...

**Enjoythefall** · September 13th, 2011, 07:17 PM

So I busted my ass for 12 hours to get 54 of those done, and as per my End Of Day have:
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69 tickets in my queue.

Treading water much?

**FiosKing** · September 13th, 2011, 07:23 PM

wow I would love to have an employee that busts his ass, want to join my crew?

**Turk182** · September 13th, 2011, 08:05 PM

I take it you enjoy working on an understaffed crew.

**Paint'n & Flag'n** · September 13th, 2011, 08:09 PM

12hrs..better you than me. I refuse to work that many hours in a day. I'll give them 9 maybe 10 and what is done is done. The rest get put ongoing for the next day. Those days of burning myself out are way over and I learned that if you do that enough times then they will expect it all the time.

**Enjoythefall** · September 13th, 2011, 11:08 PM

No, I don't enjoy it at all... I just get my work done to get a paycheck.

Everybody else is on vacation. Right now there are two locators working five counties, and neither of us have much more than a year of experience with USIC. Everyone who's been with the company for longer than that has had at least three weeks paid vacation this summer, and we've covered their areas every time. After the damage call I just got, I think the other guy is going to be suspended for three days, leaving me to five counties. With the call out, I had a 14 hour day, and you're right... I kinda feel burnt. I don't know why my sup and DM think this is ok? Even if I'm always the guy who steps up, they should realize that everyone has physical limits. There just aren't enough hours in the day for me to cover five areas.

Now don't get me wrong... I'm not trying to complain. I love the paychecks, I just think that this is the definition of poor management.

In fact, I'd better be getting some substantial paychecks because the hell of it all is that I'm the one who is going to be laid off this winter. I keep on being promised an area to work, but for whatever reason I'm still a floater.

My plan is to keep on putting forth effort until someone notices, but I don't know how long that will take. Also I just don't know if it is worth it with a contract locating company, especially one that changes hands so often.

I'm new to this, and It is hard work sometimes, but I've never given up on a job before. I'll stick until I'm told to go home I guess.

**big boots mcghee** · September 14th, 2011, 09:51 PM

Just butter up to your supervisor, show him/her that you're in it for the long haul, talk the talk, and they'll work you into an area. Of course, if you work in Texas or Oklahoma, you're screwed regardless.

I would love to have that much work on a daily basis, not because I want to do it to save the company's ass every day, but because I'm an hours whore and I like super big paychecks.

**daman1** · September 17th, 2011, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Enjoythefall

So I busted my ass for 12 hours to get 54 of those done, and as per my End Of Day have:
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69 tickets in my queue.

Treading water much?

Sounds nearly as bad as the last contract locators I worked for. You won't get any breaks on a damage just cause you got all that work done. Good way to burn yourself out. Be careful.