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You're not just paying for the time they work. It's also stuff like paying for medical care if they fall off the roof or call backs on warranty work. Plus a l
by treis 4y ago
You're not just paying for the time they work. It's also stuff like paying for medical care if they fall off the roof or call backs on warranty work.
Plus a lot of it is marketing and quoting expense. Advertising and paying for referrals eats up a big chunk of the bill. You (or someone) has to spend time generating quotes that turn into projects less than half the time.
- ericd 4y agoYeah, like real estate agents, where a huge amount of the work is just trying to find new people to handle a house sale for, rather than any sort of productive work on selling houses, and the useful:useless work ratio gets worse as there are more agents out there. I’d much rather just pay an engineer $1,000 to whip up some plans, and then hire people to follow those plans, rather than pay indirectly for a bunch of failed sales calls. Which is what I’m ending up doing.