Dilemma - to pay or not to pay?
Folks: I had an issue with a vehicle that I could not figure out; I'm a pretty competent home mechanic and rarely take anything to a shop. The shop where I took it spent 4 hours on the vehicle and...
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NinerBikes wrote:
Reviewing the bridge plans is a engineering salary job for an employee, probably contracted by an Engineering firm or outfit. Otherwise it would be a fixed price contract job done by a professional sole proprietor whose specialty is engineeering. You'd get paid, regardless and probably would set up a billing schedule with some percentage of pay before starting, and the balance at completion.
No delivery company would take those terms, not even UPS or Fed Ex. There may be penalty clauses for late delivery, but the contract would be written correctly so that the carrier gets paid, with a minor penalty in pay for late delivery.
That's how the real world works, it's all in how the contract is written. The fool that doesn't understand a bit of contract law is the person that gets taken advantage of.
Exactly. Only those that have read the agreement or were present at the time the job was discussed should pass judgment.
