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- From: axel@eps.enet.dec.com (Mike Axel)
- Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract
- Subject: Re: Job Shop Broker vs Job Shop Hourly Rates?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.133607.2017@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 13:49:47 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.213727.24418@e2big.mko.dec.com> <m3NuXB6w165w@quest.UUCP> <77529@apple.apple.COM>
- Sender: usenet@e2big.mko.dec.com (Mr. USENET)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <77529@apple.apple.COM>, may@Apple.COM (Patrick May) writes...
- >
- > Most important, however, is the question "Are you getting the rate
- >you want?" If you are, why do you care what the shop is getting? This
- >position contradicts my previous paragraph; I'm still working out the
- >cognitive dissonance in my own mind.
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- This is the argument I have gotten from shops in the past. "You're getting
- the rate you wanted, right?". That is true. However, the perception a client
- has of your value at a billing rate of say $65/hour vs. $85-100/hour is quite
- different. When I tell that to the shop they don't have any response.
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- Mike
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