Paid for Pitch Raises?

[David Andersen]

Daniel---please don't take this personally, brother, but you've  
triggered off a rant.
What the HELL are you people doing----working without getting paid?  
That's insane.
You really need to check your approach to life, IMO, if you submit to  
this kind of bullshit.
Raising the pitch on a piano takes WORK---intense work, between 20  
and 40 minutes, if done right. To not get paid for that, or to work  
for people who don't intend to pay you for that, is dysfunctional.  
Period. What are you thinking about? Would you ever ask any other  
kind of service tech to come to your house or business and work for  
20-40 minutes FOR FREE?
Never. NEVER.

Wake up. WAKE UP. You need to start valuing your time, your life, and  
your skills.
Stand up for yourself, and tell that a**h**le who owns that  store to  
sell you a piano for his cost.
See what he says. Wake up.

Until we demand respect and acknowledgement for our immense knowledge  
and skillset we'll be treated like field hands, or dismissable  
underlings, or naive idiots, or pathetic losers.

There. I feel better now.

David Andersen





On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:21 PM, daniel carlton wrote:

> The owner of one of the stores explained that they don't want to  
> have to spend more money than they have to on the used pianos in  
> particular if they can only sell it for so much. I guess I do see  
> the logic in that, but what about all the pitch corrections I have  
> to do on the new pianos? I don't get anything for my time.

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