GU demands a price increase on the entire house

I can't believe it, 25k more without disclosure just like that because everything has become more expensive. Nicely saved the margin...

Is that a big well-known main contractor? Or a small company?

I can't believe it, 25k more without disclosure just like that because everything has become more expensive. Nicely saved the margin...

Is that a big well-known main contractor? Or a small company?

You misunderstood that. I also wrote it badly. He’s sending me the overview. So where there were extra costs and how much with the individual trades. It’s a big general contractor. Sorry, I mixed up main contractor and general contractor at first.

I can't believe it, 25k more without any disclosure just because everything has become expensive. Nicely saved the margin...

Is that a big well-known general contractor? Or a small company?

That may seem strange to you in the public service or civil service, but the margin is essential for a private sector company for its continued existence. And with that, also for the economic existence of the employees and the subcontractors.

We, in the private sector, have to earn our money in the free market, not through taxes, fines, and senseless fees ;)

You misunderstood that. I also wrote it poorly. He sends me the overview. So where additional costs occurred and how much for the individual trades. Is a big GC. Sorry, I confused GC and GC at the beginning.

I don’t want to disappoint you, but this "disclosure" probably came about as follows:

I want to claim amount x and have y items. x/y = z looks bad. So I introduce the factor f = w * 0.1 (w = dice) and roll some items so that in the end it looks realistic...

Again... purchase prices, internal hourly rates, margins... that is the core of every business, strictly confidential and therefore basically not accessible to anyone, especially not to the customer...

Go to Rewe and demand these key figures from them because you think the milk is too expensive. Or to Shell... or or...

PS: Or to put it quite clearly: It’s none of your or the customer’s business how much profit I make. The customer signs a contract. And if this contract gives me the opportunity after 12 months to increase or at least secure my profit… then I do that...

As an entrepreneur I have a responsibility to my family and my employees… NOT to my customers. They get what they signed for. Not less, but also not more.

There is also no entitlement to make a profit with every business. This is called entrepreneurial risk, and construction companies in particular have received a fairly decent margin for it in the past. Now is a time when you have to tap into the reserves built up for this. I know the concept has become somewhat unpopular by now. At first, banks were too big to fail, and now short-time work is registered for every hiccup in operations while dividends are paid out in parallel. I am very much in favor of a market economy, but it also includes the disadvantages.

However, there is no entitlement to make a profit with every business. This is called entrepreneurial risk, and especially construction contractors have earned a fairly decent margin for this in the past. Now is simply a time when the reserves built up with it have to be tapped into.
I know the concept is somewhat unpopular by now. First, banks were too big to fail, and by now, short-time work is registered for every hiccup in the business process while dividends are paid out in parallel. I am very much in favor of a market economy, but that also includes the disadvantages.

No, that is simply wrong across the board.
For example, if the general contractor (GC) is a corporation, the GC even commits an offense if they do not use every possibility to achieve the profit that was (legally) attainable. Investors can sue for this... and they will do so...

And I would also like to see you when your boss tells you at the Christmas party:
Dear colleagues... this year we will not pay you Christmas bonuses because we have foregone profits so that our clients do not have to dig deeper into their pockets...

Then the office worker earning €2,500 gross subsidizes the chief physician’s house with €9,000 gross...