Happens all the time in the restaurant business.

Dinostar77 wrote:

LivDiv wrote:

Had a phone call from a client yesterday.
One of his clients wants a shorter edit of a movie I did for them last year. Pretty much just change some details and hack the end off the movie.

A few hours work plus upload, render and general pissing about time, so I agree to do it as a half day for half my day rate. A reasonable compromise especially as this is the client I charge the least.

He just emailed me saying their client want it for 3/5ths of the cost I quoted.

In what other walk of life do people just rock up and ask for 40% off because they dont fancy paying full price?
I'm a bit quiet right now but they still got a firm no.

Did you read the story about the ice cream vendor in LA? Instagrammers were asking for free icecream in return for them taking a pic of themselves eating said icecream at vendors place therefore free publicity. He got asked by so many instagrammers that he launched and anti instagrammer movement and has signs that say no free icecream I have bills to pay.

Anyway he was also approached by a "famous movie star" p.a. who asked for free ice cream for the entire crew 50+ people and said the movie star would pose for a pic with him outside his premises. His answer was simple, "does a picture with a movie star pay my mortgage and my bills?" The p.a. was pissed and threatened him.

Why do people think they are entitled to free stuff from small businesses?

https://youtu.be/o8nC1dk-t4w

Applied for a job at the SFA today. Some will chuckle at the irony there.

Ha!

What’s the SFA?

Sweaty Fricking Arses

Scottish Football Association, whom yer more traditionalist rangers supporter (not me tbh) would never go near. I just gotta get dat bread yo.

What about Sevco though?

Diluted Dante wrote:

What about Sevco though?

Never heard of them.

Edit: sorry bit of just a mind dump

Had to make some big decisions about work recently.
As mentioned previously in this thread one of my big clients have dropped all freelancers. Another big client has been hit really hard by Brexit as their clients are mostly supermarket based food brands who are stockpiling not developing.

With that in mind I've had to shift focus (hence getting up to speed with some more arch viz in the 3d thread).
Looking at doing more in that field in London. I've noticed the day rates have plummeted there in the past few years on average I would say what I am seeing being advertised is 30-40% less than when I lived there. Likewise salaries arent even competitive let alone have a London weighting.

I've been looking elsewhere for a while. I dont want to rent again so cant live in London anyway. Bedford is shit.
I have been contemplating moving north and with these two clients failing off it has kicked me up the arse a bit.
I had a phone interview with a recruiter who cover my field in the North West and Yorkshire. They loved my work and sounded super positive about finding me some clients, in the rates I was on before in London.
On Friday I have a face to face interview at a design agency in Leeds, who also have offices in Manchester so looking forward to that.

Hopefully this starts to kick off, propped up with some work off site over the next 6 months and I can make a more permanent move next year. Gonna be fun juggling the dog, travel, mortgage, accommodation but long term should be worth it.

I havent but a big reason I perhaps wouldnt is that I worry about having too big a gap between where I am and where my parents are as they get older.

But then I have to live in Preston!

Smoochin' will do that to a man.

Swoon

Frosty wrote:

Armitage_Shankburn wrote:

Have you considered Dublin?

@Armitage_Shankburn are you living in Dublin now Gonz?

I'd say dublin has a similar rental problem to what Liv would face in London. Maybe not to the same extent but it's still extortionate.

It's pretty high alright. If you have a decent take home pay it's not so bad (say 45k per year) but if your in the 20 to 25k bracket it's a bit tight. Its having a huge impact on hiring entry level people as the cost of rental seems to be based on everyone having an income in the mid to higher end of the scale

LivDiv wrote:

Yeah sounds like what I'm trying to get away from.
Even if I was up at that end of things I would resent so much going to accommodation.

I bought my house at the high end of the celtic tiger, my mortgage is a sizable chunk lower than most of the rents I'm hearing from my staff.