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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Tomboler on July 13, 2012, 11:03:51 pm

Title: skipped a customer today
Post by: Tomboler on July 13, 2012, 11:03:51 pm
she's a £12/8 weekly  - on the way from one job to another, slightly out of the way. I got the job when she was having her hair done at a local salon that I clean, she was having a perm and so watched my work in progress.  Easy job, gate unlocked, no dog poop (despite having a dog that looks like it could poop through the eye of a needle at 20 paces - very thin eyed expression) and takes me, not long at all. I just couldn't face doing it.

Q. does that make me an unreliable window cleaner?
Title: Re: skipped a customer today
Post by: H S and Son on July 13, 2012, 11:06:03 pm
By the sounds of it it makes you a failed perfectionist. Why worry?
Title: Re: skipped a customer today
Post by: G Griffin on July 13, 2012, 11:15:07 pm
she's a £12/8 weekly  - on the way from one job to another, slightly out of the way. I got the job when she was having her hair done at a local salon that I clean, she was having a perm and so watched my work in progress.  Easy job, gate unlocked, no dog poop (despite having a dog that looks like it could poop through the eye of a needle at 20 paces - very thin eyed expression) and takes me, not long at all. I just couldn't face doing it.
Q. does that make me an unreliable window cleaner?

Is it the perm that put you off doing it?
You are not alone and you can get help.
Title: Re: skipped a customer today
Post by: Tomboler on July 13, 2012, 11:33:14 pm
I don't know, perhaps it's like a living on the edge thing, daring the customer to drop me, I just couldn't be arsed. I quite like the dog, nothing against perms (if I had enough hair one might be an option)

At the start of some days, when your looking at a mountain of work, skipping one can lighten the mood I find #unprofessional I know
Title: Re: skipped a customer today
Post by: mikecam on July 13, 2012, 11:34:37 pm
she's a £12/8 weekly  - on the way from one job to another, slightly out of the way. I got the job when she was having her hair done at a local salon that I clean, she was having a perm and so watched my work in progress.  Easy job, gate unlocked, no dog poop (despite having a dog that looks like it could poop through the eye of a needle at 20 paces - very thin eyed expression) and takes me, not long at all. I just couldn't face doing it.

Q. does that make me an unreliable window cleaner?

You actually skipped a customer? I'd say that makes you the sort of window cleaner that throws caution to the wind, i reckon you're a bit of a loose cannon !! God only knows what you'll do next !!  ;D
Title: Re: skipped a customer today
Post by: H S and Son on July 13, 2012, 11:42:55 pm
Miss a window and charge for it?
Title: Re: skipped a customer today
Post by: Tomboler on July 13, 2012, 11:51:05 pm
Miss a window and charge for it?
Has crossed my mind, generally though I don't. The cumulative build up of guilt would probably manifest itself physically in years to come
Title: Re: skipped a customer today
Post by: jim bean on July 14, 2012, 02:29:16 am
same, one denied my knowledge of coming over the past 3 months, said i hadnt left a slip!! just went along with it, put a high fairy/water solution in 2nd bucket and soaped his windows up and left !
Title: Re: skipped a customer today
Post by: bobplum on July 14, 2012, 07:59:30 am
she's a £12/8 weekly  - on the way from one job to another, slightly out of the way. I got the job when she was having her hair done at a local salon that I clean, she was having a perm and so watched my work in progress.  Easy job, gate unlocked, no dog poop (despite having a dog that looks like it could poop through the eye of a needle at 20 paces - very thin eyed expression) and takes me, not long at all. I just couldn't face doing it.

Q. does that make me an unreliable window cleaner?


"slightly out of the way" that was the clue ;D