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WCDT 15-19 October 2018 (3851-3855)
Zebediah:
The real problem is that they are performing repairs on highly complex machinery for about the same price that RL people pay to repair a clothes dryer.
JimC:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 19 Oct 2018, 00:10 ---... the time in and of itself was worth something.
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It depends. The work I did in IT would sometimes have a much better result if I gave processes time to complete rather than attempt to accelerate them. If I had to go out to a customer site then there wouldn't be much else I could do, so that time had to be billable. But if I was in the office the waiting time could be used for admin, other projects, all sorts of stuff, so I wouldn't generally account for it. Note that this was internal accounting.
DSL:
--- Quote from: JimC on 19 Oct 2018, 04:27 ---
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 19 Oct 2018, 00:10 ---... the time in and of itself was worth something.
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It depends. The work I did in IT would sometimes have a much better result if I gave processes time to complete rather than attempt to accelerate them. If I had to go out to a customer site then there wouldn't be much else I could do, so that time had to be billable. But if I was in the office the waiting time could be used for admin, other projects, all sorts of stuff, so I wouldn't generally account for it. Note that this was internal accounting.
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You should consult a lawyer. Not for legal advice, but advice on double-billing. You'll be billed for it, of course.
BenRG:
"Hi, this is your lawyer. Can I sit quietly and think about you for a while?"
"Umm... yes...?"
"Mmm... $100 per hour..."
"Wait! Good lord! NOOO!!!"
dawolf:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 19 Oct 2018, 04:22 ---The real problem is that they are performing repairs on highly complex machinery for about the same price that RL people pay to repair a clothes dryer.
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Indeed. They are charging too little. If the cost of parts was $100, I'd expect the cost for this repair to be somewhere around $250~$300 given the complexity and skill involved, for a profit of $150-$200: it's not something Momo could have done for herself after all.
I'm guessing that they didn't actually have to *pay* for these parts though - already in stock, I'm guessing they are just running down the inherited inventory at the moment, with so few clients.
They need someone who understands business to talk about profit and loss to them. i.e, Dora or Jim, or at the extreme Beatrice Chatham (Hannelore's mum), but I think she'd be too aggressive in pricing for them.
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