>engineer for railway comms systems >mostly maintenance

>>17695974
Don't pick up the phone on a weekend, even if it is an unknown number.

>>17695983
nah I mean how do I handle all this shit I'm dealing with? The clients just won't understand that I'm doing a job suited for 2-4 people. They still force me to go to the site for very insignificant reasons like "we gotta change the text message" or "you HAVE to fix this LCD"
If there's a huge problem like a camera went out or maybe the driver's UI has some serious issues then I'm there in no time.

Engineers before me suffer the same problem as well, so I'm quite sure I'm not the problem here.

what about not picking more contracts than people you have. just let this fail.

your superiors must be retarded.

>>17696200
i bloody know right...
I have not much working experience and I was planning on asking them for either a pay raise or just handle one project, but will it make a bad impression of me in the long run?

>if i dont, they'll email my higher-ups and make a complaint

Why don't you go higher-up and ask them about it? Given that you're doing a larger share of work, there ought to be some give and take on both sides.

Otherwise and unfortunately, that's just the nature of the beast. They want their sign fixed, they can't really think "Oh but he has to come all this way only to make a small change that we don't really need". Basically what I mean is, you can't really blame them for contacting you.