Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Xtremely Clean on March 16, 2012, 09:09:25 pm
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On Monday should be fun, already told her shell be down the road if she's no good lol
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sod that, ok I know it works for a few lads, but mine would have me out working all hours and re jigging the round and generally just getting on my nerves, as well as doing all sorts of favours for the old dears and like
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Lol Stu, im employing her so she's on trial lol
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yep agree mine canvassed one weekend for me and got totally carried away with herself
told her within a week it wasnt going to work didnt like it much but tough
women do like to be in control watch yourself mate! ;D
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Oh dear
Enough said
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At £80 to £100 per hour, i would work with Adolph Hitler
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On Monday should be fun, already told her shell be down the road if she's no good lol
good lad my wife been doing windowcleaning since i stearted 20 years ago never let me down not like the muppets that let me down all the time all money gose in to same house ;D
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Yep mam worked with me dad for years had a good round too :)
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My wife comes out with me some days. She great with the customers who like to yak yak yak yak yak because she does the yakking, which comes very natural to her, and I do the work. It speeds things things up no end.
She also keeps the van tidy because she says she not going anywhere sitting in a mobile rubbish tip.
The biggest drawback which sends me nuts is that it takes ages to get out the the flat in the morning. In fact, it takes her ages to do anything. I don't know what she does after she says she'll get ready but it takes her such a l------o------n------g t------i------m------e. I end up pacing up and down the front room muttering to myself.
Other drawbacks, she talks endlessly and we always seem to be going everywhere via public toilets. One cup of tea and 30 minutes later she needs the loo.
The bonus though, she's very thorough. We've got customers with front doors that are so clean you could eat your dinner off them.
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I've worked with Wor Lass for the past 10 years.
Don't make a rod for your own back, mate, tell her to get a proper job.
That is all. :(
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yep agree mine canvassed one weekend for me and got totally carried away with herself
told her within a week it wasnt going to work didnt like it much but tough
women do like to be in control watch yourself mate! ;D
;D I don't even like my Mrs answering the phone, she promises the world yes he will nip round and look and give you a price and phone you back tonight, and I ask where it is and its miles away >:(
or back when I was just switching to wfp, she would sell it big time and the potential would be Ohhh I don't know about that, and she would say don't worry he still has ladders and does a fab job it just goes on and on ;D
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I've worked with Wor Lass for the past 10 years.
Don't make a rod for your own back, mate, tell her to get a proper job.
That is all. :(
Agreed Tosh!I did , she retrained as an accountant and guess who now gets his books done for free ;D
Roy
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yep agree mine canvassed one weekend for me and got totally carried away with herself
told her within a week it wasnt going to work didnt like it much but tough
women do like to be in control watch yourself mate! ;D
;D I don't even like my Mrs answering the phone, she promises the world yes he will nip round and look and give you a price and phone you back tonight, and I ask where it is and its miles away >:(
or back when I was just switching to wfp, she would sell it big time and the potential would be Ohhh I don't know about that, and she would say don't worry he still has ladders and does a fab job it just goes on and on ;D
Wor Lass is the miserable sod in our relationship. I have to constantly remind her not to bite the customers. I wish she'd get a propa job. To be fair, she only works four days a week - I need the break from her - and then she only works till about 1 or 2 pm. I'll refill back up and head out. She's no good for drive between type work, but on compact domestic or large commercial, she's great. She's also good with a squeegy and starts on any inside work we have.
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Tosh - you don't know how lucky you are mate! Worlittlun looked after proper like; 4 days work with you; (would make anyone miserable! ;D) and I bet she keeps the van spotless too!
Stop whinging - you could have ended up with one of squeaky's burds!
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Stop whinging - you could have ended up with one of squeaky's burds!
I like fat tattooed birds! >:(
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Would never ever have my misses work with me, we probably get divorce, inwhich doesnt sound as a bad idea ;D ;D
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Sorry Tosh - I forgot your penchant for ink and girth! ;D
But back to slim and OCD - would your lass valet my van for me I'll be selling it in the not too distant future and she'd do a proper job?
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Wor Lass is the miserable sod in our relationship. I have to constantly remind her not to bite the customers. I wish she'd get a propa job. To be fair, she only works four days a week - I need the break from her - and then she only works till about 1 or 2 pm. I'll refill back up and head out. She's no good for drive between type work, but on compact domestic or large commercial, she's great. She's also good with a squeegy and starts on any inside work we have.
Both bits in red. That is it exactly.
I like working on my own. If I work with my missus for more than a few days a week I get irritable because I work very efficiently on my own. I can organise each day how I want it without having to explain it.
As for my missus biting the customers.... it pee's me off when after doing a job she brings up some comment the customer made or something about the customer that I'd never even registered but my missus, oh no, for her it's handbags at dawn.
My missus is also happy to do inside work. Problem is that I then get the run down on the customers taste in net curtains, kitchen stuff and duvet covers and all that which I don't even notice and could not care less about.
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Wor Lass is the miserable sod in our relationship. I have to constantly remind her not to bite the customers. I wish she'd get a propa job. To be fair, she only works four days a week - I need the break from her - and then she only works till about 1 or 2 pm. I'll refill back up and head out. She's no good for drive between type work, but on compact domestic or large commercial, she's great. She's also good with a squeegy and starts on any inside work we have.
Both bits in red. That is it exactly.
I like working on my own. If I work with my missus for more than a few days a week I get irritable because I work very efficiently on my own. I can organise each day how I want it without having to explain it.
As for my missus biting the customers.... it pee's me off when after doing a job she brings up some comment the customer made or something about the customer that I'd never even registered but my missus, oh no, for her it's handbags at dawn.
My missus is also happy to do inside work. Problem is that I then get the run down on the customers taste in net curtains, kitchen stuff and duvet covers and all that which I don't even notice and could not care less about.
Wor Lass winds me up as co-driver. At a junction if I can't see clearly, I'll ask Wor Lass, "Can I go?" She'll look and say "No!", but what she really means is "No, there are no cars coming and you can go!", and by the time I verify this with her, there's cars coming.
>:(
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Wor Lass is the miserable sod in our relationship. I have to constantly remind her not to bite the customers. I wish she'd get a propa job. To be fair, she only works four days a week - I need the break from her - and then she only works till about 1 or 2 pm. I'll refill back up and head out. She's no good for drive between type work, but on compact domestic or large commercial, she's great. She's also good with a squeegy and starts on any inside work we have.
Both bits in red. That is it exactly.
I like working on my own. If I work with my missus for more than a few days a week I get irritable because I work very efficiently on my own. I can organise each day how I want it without having to explain it.
As for my missus biting the customers.... it pee's me off when after doing a job she brings up some comment the customer made or something about the customer that I'd never even registered but my missus, oh no, for her it's handbags at dawn.
My missus is also happy to do inside work. Problem is that I then get the run down on the customers taste in net curtains, kitchen stuff and duvet covers and all that which I don't even notice and could not care less about.
Wor Lass winds me up as co-driver. At a junction if I can't see clearly, I'll ask Wor Lass, "Can I go?" She'll look and say "No!", but what she really means is "No, there are no cars coming and you can go!", and by the time I verify this with her, there's cars coming.
>:(
Thought it was just my Mrs that did that!
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I had to married my wife but I get to choose who I want to work with.
run for the hills or see a doctor
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Wor Lass winds me up as co-driver. At a junction if I can't see clearly, I'll ask Wor Lass, "Can I go?" She'll look and say "No!", but what she really means is "No, there are no cars coming and you can go!", and by the time I verify this with her, there's cars coming.
>:(
better than her saying yes, but yes meaning there's cars coming! just look yurself, you have to when your alone don't u! mine says to wait, then I look and it's some old dear doing 30 in a 50, about a mile down the road!
for original poster, I work 2 to 3 days with my missus, it's great, she helps me keep going by just being with me, were organised and work as a team, and I get to watch her bend over reeling in the hoses several times a day - great view from either angle! :o
if you can get on together, its great, all money into 1 pot, and work with one of the people you love being with, whom you can trust and who won't screw you over (in a bad way!)
if you think you might have too much of a good thing working together,or that your nerves might be shot after a day in a van I'd probably not, or do it gradually, day at time, see how goes.
that being said, we spend far less time together on wfp than we did trad.
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I work with my partner all the time.We started working together 12 years ago then she stopped for 3 years when we had our daughter,I hated working on my own,it works for us well.