<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: Paid for Pitch Raises?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Right on brother! I had the same thing happen to me years ago....working for a dealer. They’ll take anything you want to give away. When I raised my price, she brought someone else in and I was out, or was I? Out of a bad situation....yes. I knuckled down with my sense of pride in my skill, and hard work,  and I get FAR more respect (and money) as a professional. Now when she calls me in, it’s as a trouble shooter and higher end tuner. Randy Chastain On 2/12/07 1:06 PM, "Avery" <avery1@houston.rr.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>David, I totally agree! Avery Todd At 12:12 PM 2/12/2007, you wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>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: <BLOCKQUOTE>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. </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>