I agree with Steve - I've come across a number of people who follow the view of charging for being onsite etc, but I have a hard time justifying to myself charging for anything other than just the exact hours I worked on documentation and code etc.
Toby On 23/06/2006, at 1:38 PM, Steve Onnis wrote: > > As a contractor, I would only bill a client for the time I was > working. If I > go for lunch and I am working while im eating then yeah I would > bill you for > it. If I totally stop and have a break then no I wouldn't bill you. > > As an employee I don't get paid for lunch so as a contractor I take > the same > principle. > > Taking that contractors view, where do you stop? > > If I wasn't working on site I would be working from home and I > wouldn't have > a shower and I would just get up 5 minutes before I am gonna start > work and > park myself in front of the pc when im ready, so that mean I start > billing > you from when I drag the sheets off myself in the morning? > > I would be telling him that he's more than welcome to bring his > fresh soup > in to the office and eat it there but I wouldn't be paying him for > a lunch > break if he is actually completely stopping for lunch. > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Mike Kear > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:27 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Billing question for contractors ... > > > > Question for those contracting on hourly rates .... do you bill your > clients for lunchtime if you are working on their premises? > > This arises from a conversation I had with a colleague the other day. > I noted down the time we left the office to go buy a sandwich across > the road, and he asked what i did that for. I said well I'm not going > to bill him for going to buy lunch. My colleague said that he always > billed for that time. > > His logic was .. if he wasnt hired by this client, he wouldn't be at > that office. Most likely he'd be working at home having fresh > vegetable soup and toast and a bit of this and a bit of that. And > more than likely a bit of the other as well. So he was only getting > a meazly sandwich for lunch because the client wanted him working on > the client's premises. Ergo, the client should pay for his time. If > he was working on his own premises, he reasoned, he'd be clocking on > and off the job on his own schedule. > > What do the rest of you make of this? what do you to? Am I dudding > myself by only billing the client for hours spent actually working on > his project? > > -- > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > > > > > ----------------------------------- Life is poetry, write it in your own words ----------------------------------- Toby Tremayne Senior Technical Consultant Lyricist Software 0416 048 090 ICQ: 13107913 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
