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re: Meta can’t hire fiber technicians fast enough, so now they’re training them for free
Posted on 4/21/26 at 7:44 am to stendulkar
Posted on 4/21/26 at 7:44 am to stendulkar
This would be fine to do if you lived near a training center but they don’t even say where they are going to be located.
I also think this sounds like contract work where it’s not gonna be a long term career. Once these centers are built that’s it.
I also think this sounds like contract work where it’s not gonna be a long term career. Once these centers are built that’s it.
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Posted on 4/21/26 at 7:47 am to CatfishJohn
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Those types aren’t usually the ones filling these jobs
I guarantee the tech pool will be 75% H-1B Indians
Posted on 4/21/26 at 7:52 am to stendulkar
The irony.
Gone are the days of the landline... only for this grand circle back.
Gone are the days of the landline... only for this grand circle back.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 7:58 am to stendulkar
Since when is on the job training a new concept?
Posted on 4/21/26 at 7:59 am to Lonnie Utah
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My uncle, vietnam vet and now retired, did some of the original fiber work with Bell South in the 1980s. This isn't new technology.
Maybe not, but I don't think you grasp the shear number of manhours estimated for these positions. There's not that many that aren't already working for the phone and cable companies.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:01 am to JoeyP239
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I also think this sounds like contract work where it’s not gonna be a long term career. Once these centers are built that’s it.
That's exactly what they're saying. They'll give you free training to work with one of their contractors building the AI data centers, then you can use that training and experience to get other work in the future. I don't think they're promising anything else.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:05 am to JoeyP239
I submitted the form to obtain more information, will let yall know what’s up after receiving.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:11 am to BabyTac
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When I interview someone under 35, it usually revolves around what we can do for them. Sorry, that’s not the way it works.
People under 35 still have bills and families to support. You can’t work your way up if you can’t even pay your basic bills.
These are off site jobs, people have to travel, leave their life, and work a contract with no guarantee of a future.
Most of these, just like Ford complaining about hiring mechanics, is because the starting pay, hours, and lifestyle is terrible.
Choose 2 of these 3 to be bad, if it’s an off site contract job then you have to pay well:
1.) pay
2.) hours
3.) lifestyle/ location
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:14 am to bad93ex
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Curious as to what the process is for getting hired on and where these data centers are located.
I work in the data center / fiber world. I can you tell you that the company mentioned above currently has a lot of contractors from other companies doing most of their field work. A lot of times they lease dark fiber from a telecommunications company. These dark fiber lines run between data centers. They have little huts every 50 miles or so where the fiber runs into a building and they reamplify the signal. The field techs have to drive these routes to perform maintenance on the equipment and test the light signals. If they work for the company leasing the fiber, then they would have access to little manholes along the fiber routes. The manholes help techs narrow down where a fiber cut is located.
So it's not just data center jobs, it's field tech jobs for people to drive a fiber route.
This post was edited on 4/21/26 at 8:18 am
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:16 am to KCRoyalBlue
From Indeed, in Louisiana the average salary is $25.16 per hour with Covington having the highest at $34.76 per hour and Oakdale on the low end at $25.47 per hour.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:21 am to upgrayedd
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I guarantee the tech pool will be 75% H-1B Indians
Aren't these guys actually laying fiber? Not sitting behind a computer.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:27 am to lowhound
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Maybe not, but I don't think you grasp the shear number of manhours estimated for these positions.
That really wasn't the point I was trying to make. My point was, we've been using the technology for a long time.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:34 am to Harlan County USA
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It bothers me to know we can't get people (Americans) to work outdoors like I did in the 90s. I started off making $7 an hour. Seven years into this industry I was making six figures. Along those seven years I went from roofer to service repairman to inspector to estimator to sales to management. I had a work ethic. Many people don't want to work like I did because they're spoiled or lazy.
you understand 99% of people can not go into management at all right? that is not how it works, cant have every employee who has been there 5 years moving through like you did or nobody would be left to actually install roofs
there is a reason the median wage for commercial roofer in LA is under 60k, in kentucky is well under 50k.
why do yall just assume everyone wants to kill themselves for that when there are much easier jobs that offer easier paths into management without having to bake in the sun all day?
i grew up doing construction, am a certified pipefitter and was in the trades until about 15 years ago.....the pay has not went up to match the effort those jobs require
mainly because of attitudes like babytac and how he hires....of course the mother fricker interviewing wants to know what the company can do for him. he is literally trading a piece of his life for that pay.
surprised you were able to move up so fast...because you suck at understanding statistics.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:42 am to Sunnyvale
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can earn between $61,000 and $107,000+ annually
by working 60+ hours per week
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$71,000–$72,000 per year, or roughly $26–$35 per hour
$26 per hour is only $54,000 annual if working 40 hours per week.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:43 am to stendulkar
Wow, it’s almost like it is supposed to be in that companies hire green individuals with potential and train them up instead of looking for 5 years of experience in all entry level roles.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:46 am to BabyTac
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The younger generation doesn’t believe in or desire to ‘work their way up’ and have a 30 year career.
Why would they when corporations fire people at the drop of a hat just to make sure quarterly numbers look good?
I know I know, don’t work for a corporation, however we’ve seen so much consolidation that it seems like everyone works for someone’s some company that’s now owned by another company that’s listed on the NYSE
Posted on 4/21/26 at 8:53 am to BabyTac
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The younger generation doesn’t believe in or desire to ‘work their way up’ and have a 30 year career. They want a lot fast, or live minimally enough to where they don’t desire a stable lifestyle or steady income.
You are off by a mile. Many folks in the "young generation" are already working hard making money. I'm 31 & spent most of my 20s working 2-3 jobs for extra cash. In my current job, before we hired extra analysts, I was working 50-60 hours a week for months on end, before leaving to work on my 2nd job.
The problem is that $7 an hour in the hot sun, with a chance to make six figures in a decade isn't appealing. Heck, my cable install guy was 24 & he said he was getting too old to live in crawlspaces all the tkme.
There are tons of air-conditioned jobs that start at $20+ (with benefits) that also give you a chance to make six figures in a decade. Why would I choose option #1??
This post was edited on 4/21/26 at 8:55 am
Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:04 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Wow, it’s almost like it is supposed to be in that companies hire green individuals with potential and train them up instead of looking for 5 years of experience in all entry level roles.
and thats fine but at least say the real hourly wage.
and in this case it is a fine option for a younger guy but also they have to realize to get people to relocate like that, going to have to pay for that too.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 9:17 am to BabyTac
quote:HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
When I interview someone under 35, it usually revolves around what we can do for them. Sorry, that’s not the way it works.
Posted on 4/21/26 at 10:23 am to UKWildcats
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That, plus it only taking four weeks to train for what they need this supplemental labor for, saysnot great pay.
There’s really not that much to installing fiber optic. Unless you’re getting into OTDR four weeks of classroom training is 3 weeks too many.
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