Paying a day rate

[JP_]

If you agree a day rate with a tradesperson, and know that they arrive at 10am, and don't get started well after 10.30am (sat in van), and are gone by 3pm.
What do you do / say to them? In my work, that's not much more than half a day ...

 

[noseall]

If you agree a day rate with a tradesperson

Depends what you agreed to I guess.

 

[JP_]

Not specific agreed, but I'd assume a day is at least 7 hours with lunch break, not 4 with lunch break.

 

[gas112]

yep i would say asap that , that is not a day or anything like it save any argument at the end

 

[noseall]

Not specific agreed, but I'd assume a day is at least 7 hours with lunch break, not 4 with lunch break.

If you are being taken for a mug, sack them off.

 

[festive]

If you agree a day rate with a tradesperson, and know that they arrive at 10am, and don't get started well after 10.30am (sat in van), and are gone by 3pm.
What do you do / say to them? In my work, that's not much more than half a day ...

Happened way too often in the past when i used the odd checkanidiot or mychancer.com, ive nearly nearly come to blows with a few, not that i would lower myself to the neanderthal level but once they detect the outcome will be negative a standdown occurs.
However, some of the responses have ranged from 'im really offended by that comment' to my 'misses mums daughters kid needs picking up tonight and this morning' , What-ever it is, remember you're paying them, there are NO favours, you make them a cuppa tea as a favour, you don't allow them to do a half day and take your equally hard earned money that's not part of the deal.

I would pull him/her up and ask their working hours or suggest you switch to an hourly rate, as above politely point out 'this isn't working for me' and cut your ties with them asap. Any tradesman worth their salt will be already trying to make ammends or they're a bellend.

 

[Bod ...]

I'd say to them how many hours do I owe you for.

 

[transam]

There is also flip side to that

What about some who does a 10
Hour day ?

Would some one be happy to pay extra ?????

 

[JP_]

There is also flip side to that

What about some who does a 10
Hour day ?

Would some one be happy to pay extra ?????

If he was working 10 hours I wouldn't mention it!

 

[johnny2007]

One of the himmys was saying that paying a day rate works out better than accepting a fixed quote.
Fools.
Any half decent tradesman will not work by hour or day exactly for what the op said.
Eyes staring constantly and looking at how many minutes it takes to drink a cuppa.
On the other hand, the customer can be well ripped off by the Penelope effect...

 

[JP_]

the Penelope effect.

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[festive]

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Indeed look what it did to Noel Gallagher...

 

[nwgs]

If you agree a day rate with a tradesperson, and know that they arrive at 10am, and don't get started well after 10.30am (sat in van), and are gone by 3pm.
What do you do / say to them? In my work, that's not much more than half a day ...

9-5 A round here. Probably half an hour for lunch and a couple of brews while we ponder the finer points of brexit. For £400 a day.

 

[johnny2007]

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Penelope, wife of Ulisse:

Homer's Odyssey tells the story of how, during her husband’s long absence after the  Trojan war, many chieftains of Ithaca and nearby islands become her suitors. To spare herself their importunities she insists that they wait until she has woven a shroud for Laertes, father of Odysseus. Every night for three years, until one of her maids reveals the secret, she unravels the piece that she has woven by day so that she will not have to give up hope for the return of her beloved husband and remarry.

 

[noseall]

9-5 A round here

Office hours.