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goaliebob99 said:

I havent heard many good things about mastech.

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Zynergi said:

Thats because people will always post/talk about bad experiences way before they will talk about good ones. If you went by the logic that there are never anything good to say about X then one would assume every install is a nightmare with Dish and D* just by reading this one forum.

General Rule of thumb is a bad experience is amplified 10 fold and told to 20x more people than a good one.

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epifano83 said:

I worked for Mastec from 04/07 to 09/07 this is how it went down, When I started I was a apprentice tech mad $10 a hr while in training. Once I went out on my own I got paid piece work pay I was making abourt $2400 mo not including tx deduction but I was also working from 7am-9pm getting home doing my papper work and emailing it to albq that was about another hr or so. I lived in taos at the time 138 miles about. So by the time you scan all of the paper work and email it extra time I didnt get paid for also the way I was trained was only to claim 8hrs on your time card if not they would start cutting you jobs. On top of that all of my jobs were always 40miles from home and I traveled about 200+miles a day. I had about 6 jobs a day 4 installs 2 service calls. The thing thats sucks is if you have to drive 1 hr to a job and there not home and dont answear the phone it screws you up, you have to call 3 i think in an hour and still show up before you can reschedule a job. I was in charge of all maintnence on my van as well it spent more time in the shop then on the road ontop of that just to find some one that was approved by gm to get it serviced was something else. Every 6 days you had to take your extra receiver back to the warhouse to be rescaned in and out and to pick up more equipment on top of this I didnt get paid for either always spent my day off doing this just because it took so long. They do give you charge backs as well if theres a problem with a install if it your fault or not, for example if the receiver gives out and you cant respond because the job was on the other side of the state your getting a charge back. They like to give charge backs for everything even on your van, I was forced to pay to take my van home at the time since i lived out of area. Most installers I know made there extra money by doing side work wich is against company policy. Also keep into consideration that you need to purchase all of your equipment the company can get it for you and just deduct a percentage every paycheck. The most expensive tool you will have is your birdog. For me is was easyer to work overtime at walmart and make the same money with less work and my two days off with out going back and fourth to albq.

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