Here in Oregon, I was teaching a computer class at a college and was paid just under $35,000/yr.
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I am certified to teach Math and Coach Wrestling
I do not have a master’s degree and I have no experience teaching math but I do have experience coaching Wrestling.
I know guys making $60k easy a year....working 14 days on, 14 days off. Can't beat a 2 week vacation after every two weeks of work eh?
installing dish or teachingI know guys making $60k easy a year....working 14 days on, 14 days off. Can't beat a 2 week vacation after every two weeks of work eh?
I taught 13 techs when I was working for Dish corporate but I don’t know if I can make money training outside of Dish.
Somebody who's no happy with the career made,I have a BD on Sociology and I Install Dishes.
"It's on European socialism. I mean, really! What's the point? I'm not European...I don't plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be facist anarchists...It still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car!" -- Ferris Bueller
Worked 6 years for dish, work the holidays that fell on my shift, worked on my birthday wich Im not sure why thats such a big deal for you that you worked on yours, volunteered for every out of market trip that came along, put my self in potentialy dangerous situations more times than your math degrea can help you count. I took all my tests and got my raises, got my $2 an hour raise in early 06 and my normal yearly was bumped up to a $1 and I was at $19.38. Your yearly wage incease is based on an evaluation of you as a technician, if you get a poor eval then your wage increase may be small or nothing at all. Your pay raise that comes with your sucessfull completion of each FSS test is automatic through the human resources and pay roll departments, the office you worked for can not keep you from getting it.
I think he is leaving out details.
If you find yourself with a free day during the week lets have lunch, I have pay stubs for 28 months I would like to show you that includes the hours worked, as any DNS tech here can atest to the work week is a 4 day week and we get paid twice a month, the last four months of my employment was averaging 18 - 21 hours a day.
I would say watch what you say, as when you started working you signed a bunch of documents which could limit what you could talk about in regards to the company.
Remember while we do keep things private here, if Dish got a warrent for your information we would be required to pass along your information. (We don't want to do that)
True, there are papers that each employee signs when they go to work for dish such as if you invent something that can make one of their products better that you can not patent it during your employment and I think for up to a year after leaving employment.
I have run into these people as well, there was quite a few back in Michigan.
Guess you never worked for DNS Wixom when the old GM was in charge, oh the stories I could tell you about being treated like dirt.The hours worked is one reason but within the last year and half its the way the work load is set up, one of the biggest problems that dish has had has been sending out FSS 1 techs with workloads that FSS 3 techs go out with, theres no reason a new guy should be saddled with 2 four rooms, 2 two rooms, a 2dish+2room, and a service call.
Yep that is one of the papers that would have been signed, same as the invention one I quoted above.
I trained 5 or 6 times that amount, and watched all but one quit or get fired.
Because the money is good or atleast was when I was making what I was. During the last hurricane relief trip I did in late 05 I overheard a customer talking with his friend about what they were going to be making as first year lawyers and I laughed my ass off as I was making $15,000 more than they would. If were to start now as a new employee theres no way that I would get to $19.38 an hour after 6 years because of the adjustment that was made when dish closed down its upsales and insentives program, when they did this they based your new wage on your last month of sales, I smoked the whole shop of 80 techs.
I dont see how he could have been getting paid so little. When I was working for dish I started at 11 an hr and ended at 14.33 an hr in a two year period as an fss2. I left dish to go to school full time, I wanted to do bigger and better things than installing dishes my whole life.
When I had my Dish antenna installed at my place 3 months ago the Dish network tech told me that new techs start at $14.00/hr. He's been working for them for 7 yrs and did a very good job in the installation( he knows his stuff). He even asked me if I would be interested in becoming a tech, he said he would give a recommendation and having me working in no time. Was he lying about the 14.00/hr for beginners? I was thinking about accepting his offer because it seems like a cool job I can do while attending college but after reading this thread I am having 2nd thoughts. No way I am going to install dishes for a measley 11 bucks an hour.
For all of You who sais there is more to the story
It depends on the area you work in. My area starts out at 10 dollars an hour and don’t believe everything the managers tell you. I was told that I was supposed to get a 10% raise for every fss test I would pass and then the first one I took they told me that they changed the rules and you only get the raise for the second and third raise. I took my second fss test and did receive the 10% raise and then I took the 3 fss test and they told me that they were going to have to review all my stack rankings to see if I will be eligible to receive the 10% raise. Then I was told that I will get the raise and now I am weighting on the paper work to get done. Its been a month since the paper work started but they told me it would only take 7to14 days for the raise to show in my paycheck. As far as the yearly evaluations, my first one I worked for dish for 8 months and then they told me that I didn’t work long enough to get a yearly evaluation so I call HR and they told me that I was there long enough because the evaluations are prorated. So then the my manager gave me a bad evaluation because I went over his head. My second yearly evaluation I was given 26 cents because the GM will not allow more than 30cents raise at a time for a yearly evaluation. My third yearly evaluation I hade switched managers and he didn’t like me because I would constantly ride him about me getting a 2 dollar an hour raise that I was promised for relocation and never received it, so when my third yearly evaluation came he did not give me one. Now over the three years I am still making 11.26 an hour and the new Techs coming in that I am training are starting out at 12 dollars an hour. I think it seems wrong that I have been working there for 3 years and the guy that I am training is making more money than me. Now they are trying to fire me so I will quit bothering them, so now I am suspended till I talk the GM and he decides weather I get to keep my job or not.
It depends on the area you work in. My area starts out at 10 dollars an hour and don’t believe everything the managers tell you. I was told that I was supposed to get a 10% raise for every fss test I would pass and then the first one I took they told me that they changed the rules and you only get the raise for the second and third raise. I took my second fss test and did receive the 10% raise and then I took the 3 fss test and they told me that they were going to have to review all my stack rankings to see if I will be eligible to receive the 10% raise. Then I was told that I will get the raise and now I am weighting on the paper work to get done. Its been a month since the paper work started but they told me it would only take 7to14 days for the raise to show in my paycheck. As far as the yearly evaluations, my first one I worked for dish for 8 months and then they told me that I didn’t work long enough to get a yearly evaluation so I call HR and they told me that I was there long enough because the evaluations are prorated. So then the my manager gave me a bad evaluation because I went over his head. My second yearly evaluation I was given 26 cents because the GM will not allow more than 30cents raise at a time for a yearly evaluation. My third yearly evaluation I hade switched managers and he didn’t like me because I would constantly ride him about me getting a 2 dollar an hour raise that I was promised for relocation and never received it, so when my third yearly evaluation came he did not give me one. Now over the three years I am still making 11.26 an hour and the new Techs coming in that I am training are starting out at 12 dollars an hour. I think it seems wrong that I have been working there for 3 years and the guy that I am training is making more money than me. Now they are trying to fire me so I will quit bothering them, so now I am suspended till I talk the GM and he decides weather I get to keep my job or not.
where are you located and a remote technician works five days a week at least in my areaNot because of this thread, but I should take you to lunch one of these days. We are pretty close. If work ever calms down for me I may head up to that nasty Red and Black area you live in and we can grab a burger and a beer.
Look at the upper right window in each persons post, if the person has filled out their standard information in the account manager it will list a city and state or in the case of a few a state of mind, reference directions to an alien landing site / bubba harvesting center for anal probing or where they arent.
We are both located in the peachy keen state of Georgia.
