Bravo
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- Aug 27, 2004
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Well after a lot of research, I finally sprang for the HD TV...got a Samsung 5054 - 50 inch plasma.
I had to hack out some bookshelves to find a suitable place to hang the unit. Took a long time to hack out one vertical column to leave other shelves around it but it came out well.
So I ordered the TV from Circuit City. Was intimidated about hanging it and ordered their TV installation service for $350 (normally $400). I am thinking, "this is outrageous". The name of the company is Firedog.
The rep comes out last night and starts to work. Sharp fellow. (Told me later he had a degree from a very well respected local liberal arts college and said, "Here I am out hanging TV's!).
I asked him how much he got paid per hour. Ends up that he is the local manager and says that he had to fire two people this week and two quit, so he is doing them himself until he can hire more.
Here's the damn killer: they don't pay by the hour. They pay by the install: $130 for each installation!!! He said that he had done EIGHT today alone: made $1000 in one day. Told me that the minimum an installer will make is $36,000 per year and if you worked reasonably hard and steady, would make about $50,000.
And he can't find people to work!
We have a 2.7% unemployment rate in our metro. That's very low I realize, but this is insane.....
I had to hack out some bookshelves to find a suitable place to hang the unit. Took a long time to hack out one vertical column to leave other shelves around it but it came out well.
So I ordered the TV from Circuit City. Was intimidated about hanging it and ordered their TV installation service for $350 (normally $400). I am thinking, "this is outrageous". The name of the company is Firedog.
The rep comes out last night and starts to work. Sharp fellow. (Told me later he had a degree from a very well respected local liberal arts college and said, "Here I am out hanging TV's!).
I asked him how much he got paid per hour. Ends up that he is the local manager and says that he had to fire two people this week and two quit, so he is doing them himself until he can hire more.
Here's the damn killer: they don't pay by the hour. They pay by the install: $130 for each installation!!! He said that he had done EIGHT today alone: made $1000 in one day. Told me that the minimum an installer will make is $36,000 per year and if you worked reasonably hard and steady, would make about $50,000.
And he can't find people to work!
We have a 2.7% unemployment rate in our metro. That's very low I realize, but this is insane.....