Reissued an invoice with a very polite email saying “hey, I think my invoice got lost amongst the handover mess but I’d like some money please”
And have received one back that basically says
Umm. Too late. Why should we pay you?
So my polite but frustrated reply:
Handovers and periods of change are difficult, but my hours were recorded at the time for (event names) in June so they should have been oncharged. If you didn’t, we can talk about it.
I did 40 hours in 4 days, with 25 of them happening in the second two.
I had two breaks across the four days, totalling less than an hour, AND I provided my own playback machine for one of them at short notice as the venue one was not up to it.
So yeah
You can pay me my “Ninja fixes many problems rate” for the hours worked.
And be glad it’s not the “Ninja saved our asses” or “Ninja thinks I’m a jerk” rates of +$10/hr and +$20/hr respectively
And yes, if you want to discuss rates, shimmy into my DMs
ETNZ did a survey a few years ago, and it was fucking abysmal - we had a relatively low return, which skewed the data pretty badly, but even then it was still at like. 90s levels.
My dudes.
In the 90s I could buy a house for like $200k in welly - about $300k in 2023 money. The same house is worth $2mill+ now
Median tech wage was around $17k, or around $26k in 2023 money. 2023 actuals are between $36k & $60k depending on specialty
@jonoabroad the much worse paying cousin, live events tech, despite needing a lot of the same skill set - programming in specialist languages which aren’t friends with each other; percussive maintenance; overengineering complex multi-level networks; cable management; answering calls where my first questions are “have you checked it’s plugged in? And have you turned it off and on again?”
I don’t wanna do IT phone support again, but it’s v similar a lot of the time
@jonoabroad yeah, and ever changing network configs.
I’m not a network engineer, it’s not my happy place, but I learned a few months ago that the level of shit we do regularly for gigs would make me qualified to be a senior network engineer 😬
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