Rate of the day

[darmstadt]

Even in the Netherlands, times are hard:

Position: Dutch speaker IT Project manager
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rate: EUR70 - EUR71 per Day

[BolshieBastard]

Even in the Netherlands, times are hard:

Do they pay less if you live near the client? Seems some contractors here would be prepared to take roles on less money because it's 'local'!

[AtW]

Seems some contractors here would be prepared to take roles on less money because it's 'local'!

And why not?

We bought furniture for our office from local company and they did free delivery because we are local.

Many take aways deliver for free if you are local and order is greater than £10.

[Doggy Styles]

True. Our postman delivers letters for free because we are local.

[AtW]

True. Our postman delivers letters for free because we are local.

What makes you think postman lives on the same street with you?

Locality is a relative thing - for some that's few blocks, for others it's a few thousand miles.

Say I work locally now - 5 miles away from office, can work from home, previously (many moons ago) I had to commute by car on M6 about 100 miles per day, that was at the time when fuel cost only £35 per tank of diesel, still was not cheap.

At current prices not communiting that far would save me £200 per month in direct fuel costs, plus a lot more on car maintenance, and far more on aggro. Naturally if I was choosing between local office and previous job I'd gladly drop my salary by £5k because after tax it would work out in my favour - calm easy drive is priceless.

HTH

[Doggy Styles]

What makes you think postman lives on the same street with you?

I didn't say I knew where he lives. I live in Bucks - do you think he might live in Leeds? I'll ask him. He probably does actually, he looks the sort.

[d000hg]

Do they pay less if you live near the client? Seems some contractors here would be prepared to take roles on less money because it's 'local'!

Oooh, he must be taking it personally. Making the mature move of taking his complaint into a another thread to bitch about it. When actually he gets it wrong. It's charging more for far away roles, not a discount for local ones.

I bet if I ask a plumber from Essex to quote to work on my house in Durham, he'll say he expects to charge me for travel/accomodation costs.

[AtW]

I didn't say I knew where he lives.

You said: "True. Our postman delivers letters for free because we are local."

Given discussion topic above when I said doing work local may well involve reduction in salary requirements due to objective reasons (lower costs to travel to work) it was implied by you that your postman is local, though you did it in a very peculiar way by saying that YOU are local, that in no way really meant that postman actually lives locally to you.

HTH

[threaded]

Do they pay less if you live near the client? Seems some contractors here would be prepared to take roles on less money because it's 'local'!

Many companies in Holland specify a local contractor to fit with their new found 'Green' thing. Your address generally has to be within 45 minutes commute.

[Doggy Styles]

You said: "True. Our postman delivers letters for free because we are local."

Given discussion topic above when I said doing work local may well involve reduction in salary requirements due to objective reasons (lower costs to travel to work) it was implied by you that your postman is local, though you did it in a very peculiar way by saying that YOU are local, that in no way really meant that postman actually lives locally to you.

HTH

He only brings the letters about three miles from our local sorting office. As the crow flies.

Do you think he lives in Leeds then?