ZAP No boost, no bottle, just my foot on the throttle! Lifetime Members 7,935 Member For: 20y 11m 15d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 03/09/07 06:03 AM Author Share Posted 03/09/07 06:03 AM I run a business IT service company.My staff charge out upto $1200 per day each (10 people) and I need to pay them a heap for working on public holidays.All my contracts say that a public holiday is a gazetted NSW holiday, but APEC Friday is a Sydney basin holiday only. If we get a lot of calls, I could be up for a fortune in callouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BF_Turbo Member 236 Member For: 17y 8m 17d Gender: Male Location: Central QLD Posted 03/09/07 06:32 AM Share Posted 03/09/07 06:32 AM Surely you forward plan, and have advised your clients accordingly? APEC's been on the cards for weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 9m 4d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 03/09/07 06:53 AM Share Posted 03/09/07 06:53 AM "weeks" Yeah because it's all that easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loopism Tractor Driver Member 709 Member For: 18y 11m 19d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 03/09/07 06:58 AM Share Posted 03/09/07 06:58 AM Surely you forward plan, and have advised your clients accordingly? APEC's been on the cards for weeks.Try months! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slymeat Team Kickass Donating Members 1,926 Member For: 21y 1d Gender: Male Location: Albion Park, NSW Posted 03/09/07 07:11 AM Share Posted 03/09/07 07:11 AM They picked Sydney because it's our most recogniseable and impressive city (important due to the global medial coverage this meeting will attract).Sorry guys but Sydney is a hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAP No boost, no bottle, just my foot on the throttle! Lifetime Members 7,935 Member For: 20y 11m 15d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 03/09/07 07:17 AM Author Share Posted 03/09/07 07:17 AM Yep,We have known about this "holiday" for many months.It does not change the support arrangements with our clients as we still need to provide support.Being a public holiday, I need to pay to have staff on call for any requests Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHOWDOWN BACK SLOWER THEN EVER! Member 706 Member For: 17y 6m 25d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 03/09/07 07:25 AM Share Posted 03/09/07 07:25 AM Sorry guys but Sydney is a hole.Try comng out to Auburn, I was born there and lived there all my life... I am disgusted at the state of Auburn at the moment. They want to show the world leaders the true Sydney send the out west. Ozzie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Member 323 Member For: 18y 4m 4d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 03/09/07 08:14 AM Share Posted 03/09/07 08:14 AM I work in the same industy Zap, and your obviously a smart business man, so any callouts are going to be charged at a far greater cost than normal, thus covering the cost for your employee to be on call.If I charge out a full day, its quite a few dollars more than your $1200, however if it is a public holiday then the rate goes up considerably more, if its an emergency after hours call then the client needs to bend over as it will cost them a small fortune, so on and so forth.I am aware that it hits the hip pocket, but for a business, that will be absorbed in no time, as if the day never existed. We have over 40 staff and having to close for a day hurts, but the projects keep rolling in and you cover your administration costs by charging a little more here and there... An extra 20 grand on a 500 grand contract is small money, you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buf-Phoon loitering with intent Lifetime Members 13,318 Member For: 21y 5m 10d Gender: Male Location: Zombie Birdhouse Posted 03/09/07 10:12 AM Share Posted 03/09/07 10:12 AM I am so happy to be overseas while all this APEC nonsense is going on at home... So happy that this morning it took me 45 mins for my taxi to go the last 1.5km from the airport to the hotel here in Singapore. Some dolt decided to organise a Ironman race in 35 degree heat with 98% humidity. Don't need to go overseas for that pleasure Phil . Windsor road can be known to dish up that time to cover just under a KM. M7/M2 merger farking debacle. 30km car park to the city and I mean car park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiresquire Member 266 Member For: 20y 2m 3d Posted 03/09/07 10:48 AM Share Posted 03/09/07 10:48 AM (edited) I work in the same industy Zap, and your obviously a smart business man, so any callouts are going to be charged at a far greater cost than normal, thus covering the cost for your employee to be on call.If I charge out a full day, its quite a few dollars more than your $1200, however if it is a public holiday then the rate goes up considerably more, if its an emergency after hours call then the client needs to bend over as it will cost them a small fortune, so on and so forth.I am aware that it hits the hip pocket, but for a business, that will be absorbed in no time, as if the day never existed. We have over 40 staff and having to close for a day hurts, but the projects keep rolling in and you cover your administration costs by charging a little more here and there... An extra 20 grand on a 500 grand contract is small money, you know what I mean.So you're saying that if I call Zap out, I'll be paying extra? And if I was in business, then I'd do the same and charge a little more when you came along to buy something from me?Doesn't that mean that we're all (ie end consumers) ultimately paying for this ? So this is like an APEC tax? Edited 03/09/07 10:49 AM by wiresquire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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