Paid for Pitch Raises?

[Bob Hull]

In addition to hurting yourself when you do free work,
you hurt every other technician in the area.  Just
like the guy around here who does tunings for $50.  

Bob Hull
--- David Andersen <david at davidandersenpianos.com>
wrote:

> 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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