At 15:36 12/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello all. One of my clients (an *excellent* one) is waiting for an invoice
>which I have not sent him yet because I don't really know what to charge
>him. Here is the situation: this client is in France and I am in Canada
>and last week, on Monday afternoon, he asked me to do an urgent translation
>for Tuesday morning, French time!... so I told him I'd have to charge him
>the "overnight fee" for it because I'd be working on it overnight (which I
>did). I stayed up until 6:30 am and then went straight to work (I start at
>9:00). What do you think I could charge as an "overnight fee" without it
>being too much...or too little! (BTW, it's a 2000 word doc, quite
>technical)
If he is in a technical field and unaware of basic things like local time,
I think you should charge 150% as "overnight fee" and an additional 50% for
sheer stupidity
Jojo le reptile (My 2 cents' worth)
>Ylana Corcos
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