skyhuck
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Everything posted by skyhuck
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This is the real problem, my mrs stays home a make a home for me and our 4 children, it's all these women going out to work that has driven down wages, until most households need two wages.
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I never moaned I just moved on, I always detested the way lads would sit round at lunch and bitch about the bosses. I was cleaning windows before tree work on £30 a day self-employed, I became a ground on £30 a day and when I started climbing on £60 I felt like a millionaire (always self-employed) I soon realised I could run my own show and have not looked back.
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Nonsense, the boot was on the other foot, so we went and started our own businesses in order to provide a good living for our families. Anyone else is free to do the same.
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Yes its sickening:thumbdown: Its like those old folk in the charity shops, the volunteer hospital porters, people who donate to charity shops (taking food out of the mouths of the proper shop keepers children's mouths!!) school governors, people who help old lades across the street, yes they are all scum .moan,winge, moan winge, god forbid any one should do anything for free!!!
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Two firm price the same job, one is paying the climber £100, the other is paying £190, who's going win the job???? Who can change this???????? only the climbers!
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Not at all (hence the ) Please point out the flaw in my argument
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Charge it then!, if your as good as you say they will pay it for fear of loosing you
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I often walk out of shops because their goods are just to cheap, in Tesco the other day I saw a 2 for 1 offer that was just ridiculous!!! (yeah right ) Subbies are self employed, YOU set your rate!! Do I moan to my customers that they are paying to little for me to remove their tree?????????? NO I set my rate and if they are not happy with it I don't get the job. Same goes for employees really, but their rate is set at the time of taking the job or at a pay revue.
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And your VAT registered??
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Don't work for the council??
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I have no idea what your taking about????? Is this a southern thing????????
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But that must mean your not worth more, I'm not being funny, but if you will work for that rate and if you don't others will, why would employers pay more???
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If so charge more. If someone else can do the same as you for the same rate your currently on, your clearly not worth more, if they can't why are you not charging more??
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If you want more money ask for it, it you don't get it go work else where. Bosses pay what they need to to get the staff they need, its not complicated
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I believe insurance will not pay out for unlocked vehicles, so I see your employers point. However it really gets up my nose that we have to try and think like these scum just to protect our gear, I feel your pain.
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Managing client expectations is very important, at the quote stage its very important to find out what they expect and what is important to them.
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I'd fit a new chain and get that one fixed next time I was in my dealers
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Very true, but its important to understand whats happening with equipment. The fact that links are worn, rather than stretched makes replacing one far more acceptable, as the new link will soon wear in, but it would be unlikely to stretch.
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A lawn will recover very quickly from foot damage, those with nice lawns will know this.
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How many days do you give him each week?
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Indeed, which is wear, not stretch.
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You could be wrong, you could loose some customers, but still make more from the ones that remain and for less work. A mate of mine has a friend who's a decorator, he'd been charging £10 per hour for years, my mate told him to up his rate to £18, the guy said "no way, I'll not get any work!!" So my mate said "Just try it on the next job you quote, if you don't get the job forget it" A few weeks later the saw each other, the decorator told my mate he owed him big time!!, he was now getting £18 per hour for every job and life was sweet!!!!!!!!!
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I even know someone who cuts it up on site, puts it in IBC cages ready for sale.
