Comment by mrdependable
Comment by mrdependable a day ago
Why is your babysitting bill so complicated?
Comment by mrdependable a day ago
Why is your babysitting bill so complicated?
Jesus, are you ok? Can’t you just, like, give em a 20 when you get home?
I find it quite funny you’ve invented this overly complex payment structure for your babysitter and then find it annoying. Now you’ve got a CLI tool for it.
why assume the billing model is being imposed by the customer rather than the service provider?
I didn't choose the payment structure, and the point is that a CLI is not a high bar. Something that we used to spend ~10 minutes a week on with spreadsheets is now ~1 minute/week.
Why didn’t you work out a more manageable billing structure with them?! Or to put it another way: if it took you 10 minutes a week with spreadsheets to even figure out what their bill is, how on earth did they verify your invoices were even correct? And if they couldn’t—or if it took more than 10 minutes each week—why wouldn’t they prefer a billing system they could verify they were being paid correctly?
There are several different types of work they can do, each one of which has a different hourly rate. The time of day affects the rate as well, and so can things like overtime.
It's definitely a bit of an unusual situation. It's not extremely complicated, but it was enough to be annoying.