**Professional Opinions Only Please**
What do you guys think about this new trend of Technicians being base + commission?
Personally, I think it's a slimey, disingenous, way of doing business and it encourages technicians to replace, say, a valve box that didn't need to be replaced. ANYTHING possible, every little bit, to bump those numbers up.
Even if they say they don't do that, I mean, the only person that's going to know is the tech getting the commission.
Time and Materials or Flat Fee to an HOURLY employee paid a FAIR wage.
I've heard of 10 bucks and hour + Commission before, and I think it cheats the customers and the employees. The customers cause they're getting the higher cost of paying the technicians, and the tecnicians cause they aren't actually learning to JUST solve the problem, but create others too.