[BC] The wrong way to deal with tech budgets

[Alex Hartman]

Because that's what they do. Plain and simple. They're management, they bitch and complain about how everyone in the company spends money... Management's "perceived value" of an engineering staff is pretty low since there's no revenue stream coming out of the shop to payout 5x what it spends (like the average sales person who will make $50k/mo in sales, but only costs 5k/mo to employ).

In an off-air emergency, after 10pm, just the phone call to me is $25. If i have to go anywhere, it's $150/hr door-to-door-back-to-door. Double that for holidays. My normal "day rate" is only $50/hr, but after 10pm, that's my time.

It's really a dumb game management plays. Instead of paying for it right along, they'd rather spend it all at once. Penny wise, pound foolish.

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Alex Hartman

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net> wrote:
>On Monday 22 November 2010 10:28:32 am RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:

>> The moral of the story is that customers pay for perceived value. If one
>> professional's services costs more than the average then he is likely worth
>> the value.

> Do you suppose that's why the likes of Carl T. Jones and Rackley
> get upwards of $200/hr while some contract engineers whine
> about clients that complain about $20/hr ?

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>Cowboy