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Subject: Re: Bidding for jobs based upon the number of tables involved
Author: Pete Theisen
Posted: 2007/06/30 09:46:27
 
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On Saturday 30 June 2007 08:31, Ted Roche wrote:
> On 6/30/07, Graham Dobson <grahamdo /at/ allstream .DO.T net> wrote:
> > Basically what he seems to be doing is inputting factored weights for
> > actors
>
> We had a similar system at a previous job, named the "Bill-O-Meter."
> It was the carboard box top from a carton of paper, with a spinner
> arrow attached to it. A circle was drawn, and cut up into pie slices
> labedl 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 60, 70, 80, 125 and so forth. When a client
> wanted to know how long the job would take, how many billable hours
> were involved or what the cost of the job was, the consultant would
> spin the Bill-O-Meter and apply the correct units of measure (weeks,
> months, hundreds of dollars, hundreds of hours, fortnights, furlongs,

Hi Ted!

Billing in furlongs!

Now that IS creative!
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Regards,

Pete
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