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<br><div><div>On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:30 AM, David Love wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If you are “padding” your labor to some would find that as objectionable (or more so) than adding a reasonable mark-up on parts.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Well...it depends on how you're holding it, David Love. If my team did less than our best on every bid, if we didn't put countless extra hours into the job, talking and thinking and experimenting about it when we're "off the clock," if it was a "pad" like defense contractors or Mafia guys put on, just because they can, then your point is taken and processed. If you're talking about me and my colleagues Dale Erwin, Steve Bellieu, and Phenoyd Ezra, then please, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">please</span> don't disrespect us by putting our love, our passion, our artisan's fierce dedication, our natural and constant "overtime," into that same smelly, thuggy basket. I hope you're not doing that.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>David Andersen</div><br></body></html>