I read something interesting in Markup & Profit by Michael Stone which I'll quote:
"You must run your business as a business. Your main reason for being in business isn't to provide jobs for other people. You're in business to provide a service to your customers and to make a profit doing it. If there are no profitable jobs to work on, then everyone goes home until there are. That's the nature of construction. If you've been in construction more than a day, you'll have heard that there are some down times. We all have them; they're part of the business. If you or your employees can't handle that, then you'd all better go look into another profession, and quickly. You're in the wrong business! So, if your choice is taking a job at a loss, or sending your people home until you get a job that you can make a proffit on-then everyone goes home."
Dave
