I might become a Comcast employee. ...

UberDave

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Apr 9, 2002
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So tomorrow I go for my interview. Seems like they are going to make me and my friend run house calls and change 'convertors'. Has anyone had this type of job....and know of any perks :p... is it hard work?

The only good things I see out of it are:

1. Banging a hot blonde girl if she hits on you in her house :eek:)
2. Eat lunch anywhere
3. Drive places

Negitives:
1. House calls with a$$holes
2. Driving all day
3. Being lonely
4. Might be ghetto'ed area

......?
heh gimmie some info
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Since I used to work for them, I'll give ya a little insight. As an installer, you set whether customers with trouble calls get charged or not. They piss you off or give you a hard time, you can decide that some minute detail makes the problem no longer the company's problem but a result of something the customer did and then charge them the $50 or $60 it costs to have a tech out. Also, you have to crawl in the addics, crawl spaces, all over the house wiring everything in and around the spider webs and stuff. That's always fun. But you've got a strict schedule, and sometimes they have you running from one side of the city to another, back and forth with only little time between calls. I'm not sure, but you might get commission on installs, too. I'm not sure how that works, but some companies do that.

Sometimes an install is simply dropping off the modem/NIC/cables per a basic install (customer installs it themselves) at a customer's house that's already wired for cable. Sometimes, you'll do that but have to wire the house. Sometimes you have to wire the house, install the NIC (possibly troubleshoot it), install the modem, maybe install USB if they don't want or can't have the NIC and trouble shoot that (note: "AND troubleshoot", not "troubleshoot if necessary").

So there are very good pros and horrid cons, but it's all good if you can handle it. You'll be paid well, that's for sure.

nik