Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: john the cleaner on March 08, 2011, 01:59:45 pm
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i was told today that i would be no longer needed to clean the windows at the pizza hut rest i have done for over 2 years manager says that have got to it themselves do any of you guys do any pizza huts and have you been told the same thing thanks john
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and another one bites the dust!
iceland, orange n now pizza hut ...
as far as im aware its not every store that is cancelling the window cleaning, i was talking to a customer of mine who just took redunency from orange - he was head of facilities management!
he had to make cuts left right and centre - he was saying more n more orange stores would be stopping the window cleaning...
just a sign of the times ... when a business wants to make cuts its always the window cleaning to go first ...
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and another one bites the dust!
iceland, orange n now pizza hut ...
as far as im aware its not every store that is cancelling the window cleaning, i was talking to a customer of mine who just took redunency from orange - he was head of facilities management!
he had to make cuts left right and centre - he was saying more n more orange stores would be stopping the window cleaning...
just a sign of the times ... when a business wants to make cuts its always the window cleaning to go first ...
Your right about Orange wc
Not sure about Pizza Hut but I do know a chap who's just picked up an Orange shop so it's not all of them
Where is the Pizza Hut you have lost John? Perhaps it's just your area, I do a hut and as yet heard nothing but perhaps it's down to the budget on each store, I do know they were looking to cut costs so as wc says window cleaning is one of the first to go, that said knowing how bad they get you might get it back before to long
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where was the orange store mike g?
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The big names are all the same, they will kick you in the teeth at the drop of a hat.
What happens is that some bright spark in an office somewhere is trying to make the books look better by cutting corners. It is often a bright new executive with a shiny new job and company car, who wants to show how clever they are at saving money.
So this shiny new exec will do the grand tour of stores under his command, and decide that it is cheaper to pop down poundland for a bucket and squeegee. Then if he barks loud enough about team spirit and pulling together, to his already fed up employees, the whole place will soon be spic and span for a fraction of the cost.
What then happens is that each manager has the sorry task of explaining to the existing windie that he is now out of a job, and the even more thankless task of prodding some spotty herbert into action.
Said spotty herbert is usually a stroppy teenager with a natural aversion to soapy water, and will go to extraordinary lengths not to be seen handling any type of cleaning equipment by his mates, who usually hang about waiting to rofl at herbert who will be clad in the finest polyester/nylon shirt, trousers and shoes, whilst sporting a cheap plastic bucket of soapy water, a squeegee on a stick and a deeply pained expression.
Herbert will duck dive hide and ignore his responsibility until the place is due for another visit from the shiny new exec. By this time the place will be filthy and a pain to clean, even for a pro. Herbert is finally ordered to the task on pain of losing his job or pizza privelages. He sets about the task in a predictable half arsed manner leaving the place looking as if it had been the victim of vandals.
Area manager digs at manager, manager digs at herbert and herbert gets back to it until area manager finally leaves or his shift ends, whichever is first. This cycle is repeated on the basis of the area managers visits.
Over a period of months the less obvious windows get progressivly worse, until one day a shiny ambitious new window cleaner catches the manager in a good mood and wins a new job at a rock bottom price. window cleaner will be happy, herbert will be happy and manager will be happy. The money is usually found in petty cash, so it may be a while before the area manager is aware that once again there is another mouth to feed from the pay roll.
The whole thing starts again when a shiny new area manager gets his shiny new job and company car, and sends out the order to bin the window cleaner to cut costs.
Basically you can't trust these people they will kick you in the teeth eventually.
Rant over...... ;)
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where was the orange store mike g?
He didn't say, but he lives In London so I guess its somewhere in the big smoke!
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the hut i have lost is in sittingbourne kent he did say the store was not doing well the cleaning contract has gone as well doing that in house as well thanks for your repies guys regards john
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Must just be bad luck , i clean the domestic windows of the franchise owner of 5 pizza huts , i never asked for the jobs as i dont want to take off another w/c , i could i think have them in a shot , not my bag any more though , give me houses all day long !
Rich
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hi
blast! i do loads of work for pa hut, no one said anything to me yet.
keep my fingers crossed.
cheers
john
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The big names are all the same, they will kick you in the teeth at the drop of a hat.
What happens is that some bright spark in an office somewhere is trying to make the books look better by cutting corners. It is often a bright new executive with a shiny new job and company car, who wants to show how clever they are at saving money.
So this shiny new exec will do the grand tour of stores under his command, and decide that it is cheaper to pop down poundland for a bucket and squeegee. Then if he barks loud enough about team spirit and pulling together, to his already fed up employees, the whole place will soon be spic and span for a fraction of the cost.
What then happens is that each manager has the sorry task of explaining to the existing windie that he is now out of a job, and the even more thankless task of prodding some spotty herbert into action.
Said spotty herbert is usually a stroppy teenager with a natural aversion to soapy water, and will go to extraordinary lengths not to be seen handling any type of cleaning equipment by his mates, who usually hang about waiting to rofl at herbert who will be clad in the finest polyester/nylon shirt, trousers and shoes, whilst sporting a cheap plastic bucket of soapy water, a squeegee on a stick and a deeply pained expression.
Herbert will duck dive hide and ignore his responsibility until the place is due for another visit from the shiny new exec. By this time the place will be filthy and a pain to clean, even for a pro. Herbert is finally ordered to the task on pain of losing his job or pizza privelages. He sets about the task in a predictable half arsed manner leaving the place looking as if it had been the victim of vandals.
Area manager digs at manager, manager digs at herbert and herbert gets back to it until area manager finally leaves or his shift ends, whichever is first. This cycle is repeated on the basis of the area managers visits.
Over a period of months the less obvious windows get progressivly worse, until one day a shiny ambitious new window cleaner catches the manager in a good mood and wins a new job at a rock bottom price. window cleaner will be happy, herbert will be happy and manager will be happy. The money is usually found in petty cash, so it may be a while before the area manager is aware that once again there is another mouth to feed from the pay roll.
The whole thing starts again when a shiny new area manager gets his shiny new job and company car, and sends out the order to bin the window cleaner to cut costs.
Basically you can't trust these people they will kick you in the teeth eventually.
Rant over...... ;)
haha perfect post i love it!
so true. it also starts again when they dont see them dirty , after 6 months to a year they might think we can do this ourselfs !
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Pizza huts are all individually owned, so no central policy, its a franchise.
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The big names are all the same, they will kick you in the teeth at the drop of a hat.
What happens is that some bright spark in an office somewhere is trying to make the books look better by cutting corners. It is often a bright new executive with a shiny new job and company car, who wants to show how clever they are at saving money.
So this shiny new exec will do the grand tour of stores under his command, and decide that it is cheaper to pop down poundland for a bucket and squeegee. Then if he barks loud enough about team spirit and pulling together, to his already fed up employees, the whole place will soon be spic and span for a fraction of the cost.
All very true, except you forgot shiny new exec is actually only doing to it to try impress his seniors, he has no particular wish to save the company money, he is simply doing it to impress thus buttering his own bread,
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and another one bites the dust!
iceland, orange n now pizza hut ...
as far as im aware its not every store that is cancelling the window cleaning, i was talking to a customer of mine who just took redunency from orange - he was head of facilities management!
he had to make cuts left right and centre - he was saying more n more orange stores would be stopping the window cleaning...
just a sign of the times ... when a business wants to make cuts its always the window cleaning to go first ...
William Hills are another one i've lost , a company called "Interserve F M" have takern over the cleaning and expect the cleaners to do the windows!!!!!!!!!!
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and another one bites the dust!
iceland, orange n now pizza hut ...
as far as im aware its not every store that is cancelling the window cleaning, i was talking to a customer of mine who just took redunency from orange - he was head of facilities management!
he had to make cuts left right and centre - he was saying more n more orange stores would be stopping the window cleaning...
just a sign of the times ... when a business wants to make cuts its always the window cleaning to go first ...
William Hills are another one i've lost , a company called "Interserve F M" have takern over the cleaning and expect the cleaners to do the windows!!!!!!!!!!
They do Argos, Boots and HSBC as well quite a big company but the standard of work can can be shocking. I lost the Argos stores I did to them but the one manager still gets me to do them and pays me out of petty cash because of the standard of their work.
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will clean for a pizza will that work ;D
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stop taking the pizza
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Now I think of it they are definately on an economy drive because a couple of weeks ago they stopped us using the expensive costa coffee they sell the customers and asked us to use the instant stuff the staff can have, and in fairness it actually tastes better! Mind you I reckon I eat more in value of sweets while I am there than I get for the windows, those chocolate covered shortcake balls are delicious
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No way can pizza hut put up with rotten windows , they are on tv for crying out loud !, go down to pizza hut where the windows are smeared up, by the new 16 year old starter !
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will clean for a pizza will that work ;D
Well, you`ve got to earn a crust and if it`s topping up your wage.......
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get stuffed !
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get stuffed !
thats what spotty herbert is going to say when he finds out that he is the one that has to wash the windows..... ;)
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cheesy reply that
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not you llaaw ;D
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will clean for a pizza will that work ;D
Well, you`ve got to earn a crust and if it`s topping up your wage.......
yes but its only a thin crust
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some of the pizza huts are franchise owned so this will be upto the owner,manager of each store.
this comes from a the step daughter who managers a store ;) ;D
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and another one bites the dust!
iceland, orange n now pizza hut ...
as far as im aware its not every store that is cancelling the window cleaning, i was talking to a customer of mine who just took redunency from orange - he was head of facilities management!
he had to make cuts left right and centre - he was saying more n more orange stores would be stopping the window cleaning...
just a sign of the times ... when a business wants to make cuts its always the window cleaning to go first ...
William Hills are another one i've lost , a company called "Interserve F M" have takern over the cleaning and expect the cleaners to do the windows!!!!!!!!!!
They do Argos, Boots and HSBC as well quite a big company but the standard of work can can be shocking. I lost the Argos stores I did to them but the one manager still gets me to do them and pays me out of petty cash because of the standard of their work.
They don't like paying their sub-contract window cleaners either.
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Thats what commercial is all about you do the work then you have No Money lol
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Sorry to hear that John,
Sometimes commercial can be volatile, as it's more of a loss losing restaurant than say one domestic.
Will say hi next time I see you
Mr B
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Dean do you work for interserve FM, have you experienced non and slow payments.
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The big names are all the same, they will kick you in the teeth at the drop of a hat.
What happens is that some bright spark in an office somewhere is trying to make the books look better by cutting corners. It is often a bright new executive with a shiny new job and company car, who wants to show how clever they are at saving money.
So this shiny new exec will do the grand tour of stores under his command, and decide that it is cheaper to pop down poundland for a bucket and squeegee. Then if he barks loud enough about team spirit and pulling together, to his already fed up employees, the whole place will soon be spic and span for a fraction of the cost.
What then happens is that each manager has the sorry task of explaining to the existing windie that he is now out of a job, and the even more thankless task of prodding some spotty herbert into action.
Said spotty herbert is usually a stroppy teenager with a natural aversion to soapy water, and will go to extraordinary lengths not to be seen handling any type of cleaning equipment by his mates, who usually hang about waiting to rofl at herbert who will be clad in the finest polyester/nylon shirt, trousers and shoes, whilst sporting a cheap plastic bucket of soapy water, a squeegee on a stick and a deeply pained expression.
Herbert will duck dive hide and ignore his responsibility until the place is due for another visit from the shiny new exec. By this time the place will be filthy and a pain to clean, even for a pro. Herbert is finally ordered to the task on pain of losing his job or pizza privelages. He sets about the task in a predictable half arsed manner leaving the place looking as if it had been the victim of vandals.
Area manager digs at manager, manager digs at herbert and herbert gets back to it until area manager finally leaves or his shift ends, whichever is first. This cycle is repeated on the basis of the area managers visits.
Over a period of months the less obvious windows get progressivly worse, until one day a shiny ambitious new window cleaner catches the manager in a good mood and wins a new job at a rock bottom price. window cleaner will be happy, herbert will be happy and manager will be happy. The money is usually found in petty cash, so it may be a while before the area manager is aware that once again there is another mouth to feed from the pay roll.
The whole thing starts again when a shiny new area manager gets his shiny new job and company car, and sends out the order to bin the window cleaner to cut costs.
Basically you can't trust these people they will kick you in the teeth eventually.
Rant over...... ;)
This is true. Sad, funny but true. Top post llaaww.
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i know a guy who does all the ipswich pizza huts just lost them again last week, its happened before but the managers take him back on every time, paying out of petty cash. hes been doing them since the early 90s.