You guys are so silly! John presents me with a detailed bill each month for all the work he does. He charges an hourly labor rate, as well as a "truck charge" for dump runs. Now, on the last two bills, receipts for materials ALWAYS attached, have reflected even dollar amounts less the partial dollar bits for "Total Due," although the materials costs have never come out even dollar amounts. I queried him about that and he said, "Special discount from [His Last Name] Construction."
Each work day his hourly rate is documented by actual clock time started and actual clock time he stopped working, then calculated into hours and partial hours. He usually hangs around a while to chat afterwards, sometimes as much as an hour or more, and those periods of time are free. <*grin*> He almost always presents his bill in a separate visit, dressed in street clothes instead of his coveralls.
There have been comments about "You'll have to meet my dad" and "I'll show you the pair of mill-stones my family kept which came over in the ship with Fr. Junipero Serra" (yes, his paternal ancestors are pure Castillian Spanish and museums have documented the mill-stones' authenticity) and he did make a bird house for a house-warming gift for me..... But I think it's kinda dicey to try to build a ..... close personal relationship .... with someone I'm currently paying to work on my house and property.
But I do really like him. <*blush*>
Well, that explains it. There's just something about Spanish men . . .
Each work day his hourly rate is documented by actual clock time started and actual clock time he stopped working, then calculated into hours and partial hours. He usually hangs around a while to chat afterwards, sometimes as much as an hour or more, and those periods of time are free. <*grin*> He almost always presents his bill in a separate visit, dressed in street clothes instead of his coveralls.
There have been comments about "You'll have to meet my dad" and "I'll show you the pair of mill-stones my family kept which came over in the ship with Fr. Junipero Serra" (yes, his paternal ancestors are pure Castillian Spanish and museums have documented the mill-stones' authenticity) and he did make a bird house for a house-warming gift for me..... But I think it's kinda dicey to try to build a ..... close personal relationship .... with someone I'm currently paying to work on my house and property.
But I do really like him. <*blush*>
Well, that explains it. There's just something about Spanish men . . .
