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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Dave Anderson on April 11, 2011, 06:53:46 pm

Title: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Dave Anderson on April 11, 2011, 06:53:46 pm
Does anyone else suffer with regrets about stopping window cleaning for certain customers whether it's financial or for other reasons?...

Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Dave66 on April 11, 2011, 06:58:34 pm
nope, you've just got to wipe your mouth and move on, they deserve it anyway  ;)
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Johnny B on April 11, 2011, 07:03:36 pm
I have had to sell on parts of my round when I could no longer cope with the workload. In the very near future I will be moving to Ireland, so I will be selling the rest of my round and starting up again when I move.

As 99.9% of my customers are excellent, I have found it very, very difficult to let go. Some are and have become friends, which has added to the stress of it all.

John

  
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: RO-Sheen on April 11, 2011, 07:19:37 pm
Where are you going Johnny. Im from Swords co Dublin
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: DaveG on April 11, 2011, 07:19:44 pm
Funny thing is, the other day I was looking thro my complete/suspended list on George  and I couldnt believe the amount of work Ive dumped over the past couple of years!
Would have another van on the road if I had kept them, but I remember what tosspots a lot of them were and I really could do without the hassle!
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Johnny B on April 11, 2011, 07:46:56 pm
Where are you going Johnny. Im from Swords co Dublin

I will be moving to Tralee, Co. Kerry.  :)

John.
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Tom White on April 11, 2011, 07:48:03 pm
Where are you going Johnny. Im from Swords co Dublin

I will be moving to Tralee, Co. Kerry.  :)

John.

I've heard that you know the way English people tell jokes about the Irish, well Irish people tell jokes about people from Kerry.

Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Paul Coleman on April 11, 2011, 07:51:26 pm
Since I started 20 years ago, I would guess that I've dumped or passed on enough work for at least one reasonable round and possibly nearer two.  Such a round would hardly be worth having though.  It got to the pooiint where I needed 500 customers to do 300 cleans - such was the level of messing about.  I vowed never to let that happen again.  Sometimes I've been knocked on here for letting go of a job too easily but it's probably because of the way it went in those early years.
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Johnny B on April 11, 2011, 07:55:55 pm
Where are you going Johnny. Im from Swords co Dublin

I will be moving to Tralee, Co. Kerry.  :)

John.

I've heard that you know the way English people tell jokes about the Irish, well Irish people tell jokes about people from Kerry.



I'm definitely going to the right place then!  ;D

John
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: bobby p on April 11, 2011, 07:56:28 pm
like everybody i guess,i still look over at the houses i dropped as i drive past-Hoping to see very dirty glass,  but strangely they ALL look very shiney always
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: RO-Sheen on April 11, 2011, 09:41:15 pm
Where are you going Johnny. Im from Swords co Dublin

I will be moving to Tralee, Co. Kerry.  :)

John.

I've heard that you know the way English people tell jokes about the Irish, well Irish people tell jokes about people from Kerry.



Vert true Tosh, I used to have books on Kerryman jokes when I was a kid. They reckon it is down to Kerry always winning the All-Ireland every year in the Gaelic Football and us Dubs being jealous! I think its because theu are just thick!! hahaha  ;D
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: mci services on April 11, 2011, 09:43:12 pm
shouldn't that be tick not thick ;D just like tree instead of three :D
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Londoner on April 12, 2011, 07:17:46 am
shouldn't that be tick not thick ;D just like tree instead of three :D
Thats why Richard III always hated the Irish
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Smudger on April 12, 2011, 08:03:13 am
like everybody i guess,i still look over at the houses i dropped as i drive past-Hoping to see very dirty glass,  but strangely they ALL look very shiney always

haha - i thought i was the only one that did this!!!

no regrets about the majority of those long gone as they were usually troublesome - however i do miss one custy - she was
in her 90's and always a pleasure to talk to and gave the kids small pressies for easter and christmas.
poor old girl pasted away last year  :'(

Darran
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Tom White on April 12, 2011, 08:30:01 am
Where are you going Johnny. Im from Swords co Dublin

I will be moving to Tralee, Co. Kerry.  :)

John.

I've heard that you know the way English people tell jokes about the Irish, well Irish people tell jokes about people from Kerry.



Vert true Tosh, I used to have books on Kerryman jokes when I was a kid. They reckon it is down to Kerry always winning the All-Ireland every year in the Gaelic Football and us Dubs being jealous! I think its because theu are just thick!! hahaha  ;D

I for some reason have always liked the Irish (regardless of their politics); they remind me of Geordies; daft!  I even married one; now that was really daft.
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Post by: patwoods on April 12, 2011, 01:05:58 pm
All best johnny  ;)
Tralee & Killarney r good towns but window cleaning different culture over there,u will have to adjust ur mindset but Kerry people salt of earth although cork people may not agree!!

Slan leat!!
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: John Atkinson on April 12, 2011, 01:21:49 pm
Does anyone else suffer with regrets about stopping window cleaning for certain customers whether it's financial or for other reasons?...



Well, I must admit that I've missed some good customers, but I've found new ones, so I do not regret. There are customers which deserve to be left, but it is really a pity when you have to leave the ones you like. Anyway, a man should not regret for anything.
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Johnny B on April 12, 2011, 05:56:09 pm
All best johnny  ;)
Tralee & Killarney r good towns but window cleaning different culture over there,u will have to adjust ur mindset but Kerry people salt of earth although cork people may not agree!!

Slan leat!!

Thanks Woodsy! I will be moving at the end of July, so it will be the end of one era and the start of a new one. Or will it be a new 'error'!  ;D

John.
Title: Re: Regrets I've had a few...
Post by: Johnny B on April 14, 2011, 08:48:42 am
.... 'But then again ... too few to mention'...

John