I never charge for my lunch break, because in my mind I'm not working.
So I'm totally with you on that one.
It is a fair question tho'
Mark
On 6/23/06, Mike Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question for those contracting on hourly rates do you bill your
clients for lunchtime if you are
Mike,
All contract jobs that I have done in the past I have not included the lunch
break time, fulltime employees don't get paid for it and I don not know any
contractor except devious ones who do any such thing as you have described.
But then maybe I am too honest:-)
Senior Coldfusion
Personally, I only charge for time worked. If I work while I eat, I
charge. I am not providing services when I am getting myself a
sandwich. Same goes for what I expect when I use contractors. Under
the other argument, then how long is an allowed lunch break to get
what I deserve to
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
But then in general, your pain of being onsite is catered for in
the onsite rates you charge :)
(you being you, me, whomever)
Toby
On 23/06/2006, at 1:56 PM, Chad Renando wrote:
Personally, I only charge for time worked. If I work while I eat, I
charge. I am not providing services when
The only caveat to that is to cover costs, particularly with fuel
prices being what they are. If it is in the same town, cool. But if
I have to drive for over 15 minutes, I typically tack on a
representitive flat fee to cover costs. This isn't to cover my time
so much, as I typically public
