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I would strongly urge anyone to avoid this company, especially for office work, at all costs. 

In the corporate office “CMS” department specifically, toxic is too kind of a word to describe the work environment. First major issue is management: 

- Management does not plan out anything, causing the workloads to fluctuate daily.
- Very obviously pick favorites (especially prioritizing their family members who work in the same department) 
- Target certain people because said favorites encourage them to do so.
- Largely incompetent at leading others. Management has said that its not their jobs to give people work, workers have to seek work out themselves.

As for other issues:

- Gossip. The corporate and admin offices are full of people who love to gossip.
- Hours. Days can range from 6 to 15 hours, and there's not a good way to know which days will be long or short. If you're asked early on if you're fine with overtime, this is why.
- No one is allowed to leave until everyone's work is done, even on non time-sensitive tasks.
- A lot of people here are set in their ways of doing work, and recommending any method that changes how the work is done is discouraged, even if they claim otherwise.

Finally, this is a dead-end job. There's little opportunity for meaningful advancement, despite what management may tell you. You'd be better off moving to a different department in the company once you have the chance to do so.

I repeat, avoid this company. They’ll act kind and laid-back and sweeten you up with seemingly okay pay and benefits, but once you start to see the cracks in the company, it’ll quickly fall apart for you.

* A typical day

Report to work and attend roll call and safety meeting. Review e=mails and select new work assignments. Go to field and supervise crews at work locations scheduled for the day. Visit new sites and schedule construction with owners of new constructuions sites. Visit newly proposed sites. Return to office and write proposals for new work and reviews of construction sites supervised that day. Return to motel room and continue with proposals of new work sites and answer 30-40 e-mails daily.

*What I learned

How to identify new fiber optic routes for construction. Budegeting and Tracking projects with preconstructed spreadsheets and forms, plus permitting Northern California agencies (cities, cal trans, railroad, etc)

*Management

The Management was decent, knowledgeable, and accessible.

*Co-workers

The co-workers were hard working and knowledgable

*The hardest part of the job

The commute of 350 miles each way twice per week. I would leave the Bay area on Fridays at 2:00 PM and drive7 hours to get home then leave at 2:00 PM on Sunday to return to work. Answering to as many as 10 different department managers daily.

*The most enjoyable part of the job

Working with the crews I supervised, working 95% of the day unsupervised and having the oppurtunity to work many facets of the job from conception to fruition.

Worked construction and restoration. Lots of work, great people if you work with a solid crew that all works equally and helps the jobs done with equal effort. Rarely get raises and if you get lucky enough to score a raise you get 30¢. Not much room for advancement, unless you get along with the managers.  All the meetings are about how “we can do better” but it’s always pointed out to the crews who can never get a pat on the back for doing some tougher jobs that others couldn’t do. Instead get told the same story every meeting about how “they’re watching us”. Managers will talk disrespectfully to their workers, who obviously have a language barrier and know they won’t defend themselves. Just good work temporarily or to get your foot in the door of cable work. Here you’ll do the hardest part of cable work for the lowest pay.

Ive enjoyed some of my time at this company. There is definitely a lot to do here but sometimes favoritism comes into play no matter how great you are at your job. The need to repeat why you deserve a raise after youve been moved up in positions can get tiring and discouraging. Theyll work with you WHEN they get to that topic. Communication can be poor at times if youre not a supervisor or management. Tension tends to build once corporate finds issues, which causes a pretty tense and uncomfortable work environment for anyone lower than supervisor. At times it can feel you arent getting your worth unless you continuously go above and beyond, which should never be an obligation to get what is deserved.

Typical day would include setting pathways and pulling cable. Nearing the end of a job we would terminate and test the cables we installed. I had learned what I could about Data install and everyone shared information freely for the betterment of the job being done right. Management was fair, balanced and family oriented. This reflected in the people they hired as I found everyone friendly. The hardest part of this work would be moving from job to job and remembering where you needed to pick up. As well as the things that still needed done. Its a small company but they service all of the Seton medical centers. Seton being so large its assured one would stay busy. The most enjoyable part of this company is the team. When I moved from Austin it felt like leaving a family.

If you like to work at a place that has to take roll call every morning and micromanages your every move. Then this is a great place for you. Every morning you gathered in a garage where they took roll call like you are some elementary school student that will have a truancy officer called if you don’t show up. If you do call in for any reason they want a detailed description on why you couldn't be at work. Then when you do head out to the job they have cameras in their vehicles that when you hit a bump it turns on. This video will be sent to someone who is payed to watch these said videos and make sure you aren’t doing anything wrong. And if they find anything they will write you up or fire you. On top of everything they expected you to work long hours and the wages were terrible. 

I started working for this company a few months ago.  At the beginning there was some scrambling, but most of the office was brand new.  They hired 70 new employees in 3 months.  Once we all figured out our parts everything got a lot smoother.

There are tons of growth opportunities.  The company has lots of locations and room to move up in your career.

They have a good benefits package, PTO, Paid Holidays, and are flexible.  If you're using up all your time though, and call in a lot, they generally will hold you accountable.  

If you are slacker, this company isn't for you.  If you like to work hard, have interesting projects, and want to have a real career, this company is GREAT!

CableCom is a reputable company bursting with growth and leading the fiber optic industry locking down contracts with massive companies like Verizon and Comcast. Working here  served as an invaluable experience and I learned new skills as well as polished existing ones. 

My role in AP encompassed a variety of accounting and administrative tasks like vendor setup, invoice processing, monthly statements and reconciliation, data entry and batch checking as well as pulling for weekly check runs.  

The hardest part of taking on this new role was the learning curve and perfecting my speed and volume of processing invoices in keeping with an accurate attention to detail ex. approval process, coding and batch checking.

I found this job through a recruiter, which was called a Billing Specialist.  The job description was very detailed in what I would be doing, however I barely did any of the job description that was stated.  90% of the job ended up being data entry, which I did not expect to be doing most of the time.  It got to be very mundane and I wasn't getting challenged enough.  I was also promised that I would be doing more tasks in the future but it never happened. 



During my employment here I often fantasize about the many different paths I should take. As great of a splicer I may be, the compensation and employee empathy is just not there. Work to life balance is negatively one sided. I fear my health is on a slow roll downhill. There is just too much needs/wants of the employee to properly recover from a week to week beat down from workload. Scheduled jobs? There is no schedule, it’s always a surprise every single day you step on the yard. If your looking for a quick gig for some money and experience, this is the job for you. If you are looking for that balanced long lasting career, keep looking. 

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