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by 01100011 906 days ago
Definitely not the norm at the places I've worked. I would even bill for some downtime if the customer was blocking me from getting work done and the contract expected me to work full-time as it was preventing me from taking on other work.

No complaints in over 15 years. Just be good. Keep your customer happy and get stuff done on time and on budget and these sort of things just work themselves out. Much of it relies on setting clear expectations and goals up front.

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Great advice.

The firm I was referring to above was sold to a private equity firm and they lost all their good, longstanding talent in the process, myself included.

Take care of your good employees and the rest follows. There is a King of the Hill episode about it. Mr Strickland calls Hank his "golden goose".