anyone ever worked for a warrenty company?

Soybomb

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Some guy called and woke me from my slumber this morning to offer me a job. The nerve ;) Anyway about a week or two I applied online to wrok for a pc warrenty company. This is the guy that that gateway or dell sends out when they need a harddrive replaced, or a new cdrom slid in, etc. You get to choose your own radius to work in and then for all jobs in that radius you get $25 flat rate for the job, then if its farther than that you can bargain with them for your rate. He says he's already got a job in the area, its in a town about 20 minutes away. So assuming it takes 20 there, 20 back, and 20 to fix, I've got $25 for an hours of work. Not the best, but also not the worst in teh world. I can call the customer and setup my own repair times to come out too. It seems very flexible. Anyone here ever done anything like that and have a story to share?
 

d33pt

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there are too many variables that could go into this.. what it the machine is so hosed it takes 2 hrs to fix? then yer down to 12bucks an hr.. which aint great at all... i wouldn't do it. not steady enough for me.
 

Soybomb

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Ahhh but I'm not responsible for the software end, my duties are just to "get it to a C: prompt" meaning the most software I'd ever do is fdisk and format. So really when it comes down to it, its just how far I want to drive because installing the hardware shouldnt be that bad :D