Job just finished. Circa 5 hours. PIR with various numbers and readings on it. Installation certificate issued. I seem to have two separate PIR looking forms and two separate Installation Certificate looking forms. Invoice written out. Cash paid over.
BAS - why the hell are coming back with some highly theoretical materials versus labour scenario - and asking people to select which tradesman to choose. It is a bit ridiculous.
Perhaps it suits the sparky to do the jobs where he is paid immediately in cash (no risk of bad debt), he doesn't have to worry about materials (e.g. because of his own credit limits, fears of client not paying, not correctly identifying the parts required for the job, etc, etc.). In economic terms it comes down to marginal cost. The sparky's marginal cost for pitching up and doing a job like this was the cost of his petrol, his lunch, and the cost of the NAPIT Form - lets' call it a tenner. Now if he wasn't working today - i.e. he had no other jobs, his costs for today would be a tenner less but his income would also be £130 less for not doing my job. In profit terms, he's made a profit of £120 for five hours work. But his assessment of future profit might be much greater. For example, if he identified he was doing work for a landlord, which he would have done, he might see 5 hours a month coming his way, from just pitching in at the right level to win this account. The corrollary to this, of course, is that the other guys that failed to win this business are much less likely to win future business from me, and today they are all £120 worse off.