[Tom White]

Off subject,

Tosh, I'm in your club again, January with no booze for cancer research, not raised a penny yet but feeling great and dropped a stone in weight in 20 days, in fact I feel that good I can see a dry february on the cards.

I seem to remember you planned to have a dry February last year too, yet cracked on the 1st Feb.   

[Richard iSparkle]

As for paying staff,

Window cleaning as an employed window cleaner is a dead end job, anybody who even considers it deserves to be sectioned under the mental health act. I'd prefer to stack shelves in Lidl than clean windows, especially for the minimum wage.

that's not true tho is it!

there are many companies doing window cleaning and some of them are nationals where there is potential for developing a career in the organisation.

[gary999]

I pay my employee 12 pounds an hour and he works hard so deserves a good wage. He is 42 so I would not dream of paying minimum wage. He also gets a bonus if we have a good month.

What do you pay yourself then pal?

£15 an hour?

Thats £27 per hour x 8 hours = £216 just in wages.

Add on all your other outgoings.

Now add on the money the business is making in profit.


You must earn a phat amount each day...

Certainly far more than you pay your slave that's for sure. 

^^Who put 20p in this clown?^^



Paying my non driver £7 an hour is hardly slave labour is it. 

There are loads of companys on this forum, in my area, and in the UK that pay £7 per hour.

£7 is soon to be the new minimum legal hourly wage...so its not exactly
great is it.

[LT carpet cleaning]

I pay my employee 12 pounds an hour and he works hard so deserves a good wage. He is 42 so I would not dream of paying minimum wage. He also gets a bonus if we have a good month.

What do you pay yourself then pal?

£15 an hour?

Thats £27 per hour x 8 hours = £216 just in wages.

Add on all your other outgoings.

Now add on the money the business is making in profit.


You must earn a phat amount each day...

Certainly far more than you pay your slave that's for sure. 

^^Who put 20p in this clown?^^



Paying my non driver £7 an hour is hardly slave labour is it. 

There are loads of companys on this forum, in my area, and in the UK that pay £7 per hour.

£7 is soon to be the new minimum legal hourly wage...so its not exactly
great is it.

Nope as I said, slave labour.

[Richard iSparkle]

I pay my employee 12 pounds an hour and he works hard so deserves a good wage. He is 42 so I would not dream of paying minimum wage. He also gets a bonus if we have a good month.

What do you pay yourself then pal?

£15 an hour?

Thats £27 per hour x 8 hours = £216 just in wages.

Add on all your other outgoings.

Now add on the money the business is making in profit.


You must earn a phat amount each day...

Certainly far more than you pay your slave that's for sure. 

^^Who put 20p in this clown?^^



Paying my non driver £7 an hour is hardly slave labour is it. 

There are loads of companys on this forum, in my area, and in the UK that pay £7 per hour.

£7 is soon to be the new minimum legal hourly wage...so its not exactly
great is it.

£7 an hour is an OK wage.  no problem with that whatsoever.

if you want to pay your staff more than that's all well and good.

it clearly isnt 'slave labour' it is quite the opposite in fact.  a slave doesn't have a choice in where they work.  our staff choose to work for us out of their own free will.  if they didn't think the wage was good enough they would not take the job, or they would leave it.  simple

[Dean Taberner]

As for paying staff,

Window cleaning as an employed window cleaner is a dead end job, anybody who even considers it deserves to be sectioned under the mental health act. I'd prefer to stack shelves in Lidl than clean windows, especially for the minimum wage.

that's not true tho is it!

there are many companies doing window cleaning and some of them are nationals where there is potential for developing a career in the organisation.

I agree that there are exceptions Rich but as a rule of thumb what I said is true.

[martin hulstone]

No its not slave wages, like i said i pay 12 pounds an hour plus a bonus sometimes. My employee loves his job, will work any hours and is training to be a chartered accountant. Like any job you pay poop wages you get poop staff!

[SeanK]

How can £7 an hour be an OK wage ?
The UK living wage is £7.65 and the living wage for London is £8.80.
£7 an hour is a wage but its far from OK.

[Soupy]

As for paying staff,

Window cleaning as an employed window cleaner for Dean Taberner is a dead end job.

FTFY

Don't tar everyone with your brush.

[Dean Taberner]

As for paying staff,

Window cleaning as an employed window cleaner for Dean Taberner is a dead end job.

FTFY

Don't tar everyone with your brush.

Thanks for that,

Yes you're right, I'd never work for myself, not as long as I've got a hole in my backside.