We get dozens of calls from national service contractors per month asking us to do service work for their accounts. Their customers are usually national chain stores or restaurants. Of course, they want us to drop what we are doing to service them, they want us to drop our rates to what THEY are willing to pay and then they take 90-120 days to pay if we are lucky. We never get paid without dozens of collection calls, and once we start calling, they move on to another contractor who is a sucker. This is a huge problem in the telecom industry.
We have stopped offering discounted rates in hopes of getting "tons" of residual work as many of these companies promise. If they are willing to pay our regular rates and pay on OUR terms, then by all means, we will help them out. Otherwise, they can just keep dialing for dollars. There's somebody out there that may be willing to work for peanuts, but it's not me.
One of the chain store managers, told me he had an electrician move some lighting, the guy was there for 2 days, he told the manager they paid him $524 to do the job, manager told me his main office paid the contract company $1400 for the work.
They get a job, then try to find the cheapest EC to do it, they will call 50 guys just to find one fish.
