Originally Posted by
heelwinch
In one breath you say you are not making a decent wage.... and in the next you are thanking the union for the decent wage you earn... I don't follow.
So you said there is absolutely no training involved in your position??
So that would lead me to believe your pay scale should be comensorate with that of a general laborer, McDonalds or a grocery store bagger... although there is some training involved with these jobs they are still fairly menial tasks.
With that being said the typical salary for a meter reader starts out at 35,000.00 dollars a year plus benefits... that sounds pretty damned decent to me... for not having to have any type of brain function.
No you don't follow....I said I EARN decent money vs your insinuation that it is given to me for nothing.
3 days in an office to make sure I was capable of reading numbers off an electric meter(duh), and out in the field....already knew how to deal with customers...common sense. Drunks are far more difficult customers than a utility customer.
For the 20th time I am no longer a meter reader, I am a meter tester
And my pay scale is just under a journeyman linemans. I earn every penny that I receive, I do my job and I do it well.....that being stated by my superiors IN MANAGEMENT...I tested to get the entrance level into this dept and all subsequent advancements, and I scored VERY highly...with no initial training. So if you are trying to slam me, give me a rest. I also worked my ass off as a meter reader, I worked in rain, snow, ice, pissed in the woods, got bitten by dogs, froze my ass off, sweated my ass off, waded thru snow to my waist, got stung by bees, walked up to 12 miles a day on days when it was tough to even get out of bed. I don't know many grocery baggers or burger flippers that go thru that kind of stuff on a daily basis for 16 years, so take your bashing and save it for someone who really cares what you think, oh high and mighty heel winch
I just spent 9 days on storm working hand in hand with linemen and electrical equipment guys and treetrimmers all over 2 states, they respected me from the start, and don't begrudge me the money I EARN.......thanks to MY UNION to bargain for my pay and my ability to do my job and keep my job for23 years.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Abraham Lincoln