No, it make sense for your management to set up a system that helps insure that jobs are being bid correctly in the first place.

If a job is being bid correctly, if 8 man hours are required to complete the job, that equals 4 hours for 2 men or 8 hours for 1 man (of course it never works out exactly that way but that's the principle). Why should the salesman have to include more labor if two men are being used? The job should go (ABOUT) twice as fast. This assumes of course that the project requires two men and that they both are really doing work and one isn't just acting as a gopher (and even having a gopher can speed things up a LOT if the main installer is good).


This message was edited by QQQ on 11/16/02 17:07.17.