Comment on That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kinda, but usually you’re sorta expected to put in your best effort for every billed hour regardless.

  Instead of laying things out like this, what you can do is bill more hours (within reason) per hour worked to customers who pay less per hour. Gotta be careful with that though.

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    usually you’re sorta expected to put in your best effort for every billed hour regardless

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Naturally. But we don’t tell our clients that :)

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  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I worked as a consultant for years and yeah, exactly this, and more! One thing knowledge-based consultants do is reuse old work but bill clients for a flat rate instead of hourly. It’s less than paying for new work, but usually much more than the hourly cost if they were billed for just the time required to update the material.

    I recycled old work constantly. For a well-paying, reasonable client, I’d often only bill for the time required to update the work and comp the rest. Last minute, minor updates were free within reason. Penny pinching, uncooperative clients got paid full price and I’d bill the rush rate to the minute for last minute updates. On average, great clients paid less than the ones trying to strangle a deal out of me.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a very dangerous game, especially compared to just finding a higher paying single job.

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