azthal

A few years ago I was working at a temp agency, where I was sent out on different jobs every day.

Ended up at a place that had ordered 1000 metal bars for road work stuff. These all had 4 nuts in them. It turned out that it was the wrong type of nut (either US but it needed to be European, or other way around, can't remember). They were all fastened with red Loctite.

Blowtorch, patience and grit. It was fucking hell. Then, once I was done with half of them the manager comes out saying: "Oh yeah, you can stop that now. The supplier said they will just take them back and deliver new ones instead. Good work though!"

Oh, I don't disagree with the idea itself.It was a smart idea. The things were shipped in from China, and it was all about time management. He needed the things a couple of days later, and would not have had time to wait another delivery from China obviously. In the end I assume they were able to get it from a closer source.

That didn't stop me from wanting to take that blowtorch to his face after being told that all my work was useless though, paid for it or not :)

So, essentially, your pricing is a flat rate (presumably for time spent?) + expenses? Makes sense.

But a play isn't a sale. A play can happen over and over and over again. You don't buy a song multiple times. 600k plays over 6 months could be just 2000 users having the song in their daily playlist.

I had that happen when calling Virgin Media here in UK. I only use them for broadband.

When I said I was planning on cancelling, the girl in the retention department said the following:

"I see that you have upgraded your speed here with us in the past. Once you leave us, you can choose between either BT that can offer you 5mbit/s or Talk Talk whom claim they can offer you 12mbit/s. Of course, we both know that Talk Talk can't really do that in your area, so would you like me to give you BT's number while I cancel your account?"

I stayed with Virgin Media and my 100mbit/s. Bloody woman, knowing what she is talking about and turning my words against me!