[Shotimes] Re: (OT) How to avoid the pitfalls of pricing

[James White]

Try commission based pay!

I work on a project for 6 to 12 months.

The architect specifies my product.  The job is bid.  Maybe my customer 
gets the subcontract, so the material is ordered in 3-4 months,  
8 weeks later the material is shipped, and finally 3 months later 
the order is paid.  Only then do I get my meager 2% commission...


And for this I have really flexible time, but must put in well over 
80 hours a week..

regards, Jim White



At Sunday, 1 January 2006, "Mark Mucher" <mmucher@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>That's not what exempt means - exempt means you are exempt from 
federal wage
>and hour laws - like Paul!
>
>You seem to be describing non-exempt, although employers CAN pay 
overtime
>and/or premiums to exempt employees, id they want...
>
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.
team.net]
>On Behalf Of bd nesbit
>Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 12:07 AM
>To: shotimes
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: (OT) How to avoid the pitfalls of pricing
>
>It must be tough being that kind of salaried.  I am what is called 
'salaried
>exempt'.  Basically it means that if I work 38 or 35 hours, I get 
paid for 
>40(salaried).  If I work 45 or 48 I get paid for 45 or 48.(exempt) 
Also 
>get 40+8 for almost any holiday.. I do not get time and 1/2 for 
over 40, but
>after 42 we get 'premium time'.  Time plus $6.00/hr.  It's not much,
but
>every little bit helps.  What I really like is being asked to work 
a holiday
>that I am not scheduled to work.  We get time for working plus time for
>being called in plus time for the holiday.  I just have to keep 
reminding
>myself that it's like triple time.
>David
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul L Fisher" <sho@paul-fisher.com>
>To: "'bjshov8'" <bjshov8@comcast.net>; "'Shotimes'" 
><shotimes@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:14 AM
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Re: (OT) How to avoid the pitfalls of pricing
>
>> Getting off on more of a tangent, why do they only say that retirees 
are 
>> on
>> 'fixed incomes'? I'm on a fixed income, Whether I work 40 hours
>> (hahhahahahahaha) or 90 hours a week, I get the same amount of 
money. It's
>> called salary!
>>
>>
>> Paul L Fisher
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.
team.net]
>> On Behalf Of bjshov8
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:10 PM
>> To: 'Shotimes'
>> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: (OT) How to avoid the pitfalls of pricing
>>
>> I've worked mucho hours overtime as an engineer, sometimes in 
excess of 60
>> hours per week overtime on top of the normal 40 hours, and it never 
>> changed
>> my income a bit.  Also I never was able to take more than 1.5 
to 2 weeks
>> vacation a year, and never more than a couple of sick days per year.
>>
>>
>>> A fair amount of overtime which is time and a half and double 
time is
>>> involved. Also, some of them sell back some of their up to 8 
weeks of
>>> vacation time.
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