Very little annoys me more than self employed people moaning about their overheads.
Very little annoys me more than self employed people moaning about their overheads.
Maybe he didn't expect the customer to carry out an ignorant and grossly incompetent "calculation" which yielded an "daily rate" so wrong that you wonder how the person who did it has the brains to find his way home after he goes to the corner shop.Absolute nonsense. You had ample opportunity to 'justify your rate', you went round to his house so should have told him then, you gave a quote and it should have been clearly stated on that document. If you had been up front with your rate then you might have got the job because you were the only person honest enough to be straight with the paying customer.
No, it's because they are going to use an electrician, but right now he's holidaying on Mars and can't be reached, and they want to buy everything before he gets back.No doubt a lot of the DIYers who come on here asking how to change a consumer unit do so because they cannot find an electrician who is straight with them about the rate they are charging.
Oh but I am .. Only £26,000 a year though ( IT hardware maintainance )
Thats just less than £12 an hour...
I had an estimate of £1500 for a cu replacement Another for 650 and a third for 800
ophthalmology.....
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