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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: david coats on October 01, 2010, 05:34:11 am

Title: employees please help
Post by: david coats on October 01, 2010, 05:34:11 am
how do u stop people from letting u down i have had a couple of young lads working for me cash in hand they start off fine i explain the job to them and they say they are ok with it and for the first week or so they are good but then they start letting me down not turning up for work and when they do they can't be bothered and start making mistakes like leaving the windows streaky but because they are cash in hand i don't feel like i have any control over them i can't afford to put anybody on the books but need somebody to help me get round the work especially now winter is comming i pay them £30 per day and explain to them i have to get round £100 worth of work to be able to pay there wages my diesel and my wages they just don't understand hoe do u find somebody reliable any advice would be appreciated
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: Frankybadboy on October 01, 2010, 07:09:14 am
@£30 aday i not surpised you are getting problems.


you probaly find you go though 10 people to find 1 good one.
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: deeege on October 01, 2010, 07:20:30 am
This is a joke right?

You have answered all your questions yourself.

Young lads.....£30 per day.......cash in hand.
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: Paul Coleman on October 01, 2010, 07:21:25 am
how do u stop people from letting u down i have had a couple of young lads working for me cash in hand they start off fine i explain the job to them and they say they are ok with it and for the first week or so they are good but then they start letting me down not turning up for work and when they do they can't be bothered and start making mistakes like leaving the windows streaky but because they are cash in hand i don't feel like i have any control over them i can't afford to put anybody on the books but need somebody to help me get round the work especially now winter is comming i pay them £30 per day and explain to them i have to get round £100 worth of work to be able to pay there wages my diesel and my wages they just don't understand hoe do u find somebody reliable any advice would be appreciated

You're having a laugh aren't you?
Peanuts and monkeys spring to mind.
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: Steven01903 on October 01, 2010, 07:24:46 am
We are in 2010 you know :o :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: Jack Wallace on October 01, 2010, 07:25:22 am
I am sorry but I have no sympathy for you. 30 quid for an 8 hour day!!! thats only £3.75 an hour, even cash in the hand thats crap money.
I pay my 12 year old more than that.

If you want someone to treat you and your business properly you have to lead by example.

Give them some respect.
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: Frankybadboy on October 01, 2010, 04:54:44 pm
 :o
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: darren clarke on October 01, 2010, 05:14:49 pm
u r paying peanuts  why should they care that u need to make 100 a day, u should be able to make that on your own
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: the bfg on October 01, 2010, 08:37:52 pm
how do u stop people from letting u down i have had a couple of young lads working for me cash in hand they start off fine i explain the job to them and they say they are ok with it and for the first week or so they are good but then they start letting me down not turning up for work and when they do they can't be bothered and start making mistakes like leaving the windows streaky but because they are cash in hand i don't feel like i have any control over them i can't afford to put anybody on the books but need somebody to help me get round the work especially now winter is comming i pay them £30 per day and explain to them i have to get round £100 worth of work to be able to pay there wages my diesel and my wages they just don't understand hoe do u find somebody reliable any advice would be appreciated
















you should be reported as its people like you who give window cleaners a bad image.   £30 a day  thats absolutely shocking
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: rg1 on October 01, 2010, 08:42:48 pm
Well he is in Cumbria. Maybe that's the going rate  ::)
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: Silver Surfer on October 01, 2010, 08:43:59 pm
how do u stop people from letting u down i have had a couple of young lads working for me cash in hand they start off fine i explain the job to them and they say they are ok with it and for the first week or so they are good but then they start letting me down not turning up for work and when they do they can't be bothered and start making mistakes like leaving the windows streaky but because they are cash in hand i don't feel like i have any control over them i can't afford to put anybody on the books but need somebody to help me get round the work especially now winter is comming i pay them £30 per day and explain to them i have to get round £100 worth of work to be able to pay there wages my diesel and my wages they just don't understand hoe do u find somebody reliable any advice would be appreciated

 ;) This is a wind up right!!!.....30 squid a day ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: CLEANCARE WC on October 01, 2010, 08:46:03 pm
unless you can offer someone a full time job it is difficult to hold on to casual staff agreed....But even so I pay £50 a day as soon as someone starts with me even if they havenever touched a squeegee before, and they dont have to do ladders as we have wfp.
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: darren clarke on October 01, 2010, 08:57:49 pm
so they have to earn u 100 a day so they can earn 30.
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: erithwc on October 01, 2010, 09:03:05 pm
you pay them £30 a day  :o you will wake up one day to find all your work has vanished.

sounds like a classic case running around like a head less chicken for under priced work.

or david coats is actualy the tax man trying to catch people out  ::)
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: ronnie paton on October 01, 2010, 09:47:30 pm
BLOODY HELL JACK YOUR TWELVE YOUR OLD MUST BE LOADED
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: AuRavelling79 on October 02, 2010, 10:32:17 am
Who else thinks david coats is barry mallet having a laff?
Title: Re: employees please help
Post by: darren clarke on October 02, 2010, 10:33:56 am
Who else thinks david coats is barry mallet having a laff?

could eb   but there is still wc out there who think £30 a day in wages is good,  look how many pay mininum wage