Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Michael Peterson on July 05, 2013, 04:19:38 pm
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i'm looking at getting a part timer and have someones cv who looks fine, out door working security work, swim instructor ambulance driver etc hes in his mid fiftys would this be a good age do you think? im only 28
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Without meeting the fella no-one will really know.
The only possibility (and this may not be fair) is he might not like 'taking orders from a youth' but if he's applied for the job, met you, knows what the work is and still went for it-chances are he'll be fine.
Go with your gut. IME it's usually right.
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ask him about any medical conditions , if he says none ,get him to sign a statement saying that .
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I gave a 50 something a chance a few years back. He had been a HGV driver and had done blah blah blah, found out he was one of life's casualties.
I thought he was going to work out well, considering his age,teenage kid etc.
When I first met him he was positive, couldn't wait to start. After a few months it was " I don't feel well today or my wife's poorly , daughters
got this and that" and to top it all he was picking up jobs and not informing me.
When I looked into him more he had done the same to a previous window cleaner. If only I'd known then what I know now.
All part of life's rich and varied pattern I suppose.
Steve
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It always amazes me. Had one bad experience with a old man now we will not touch. Very ageist. This job is fine for many older folk I am 64 years never done a labour job in my life and am doing just fine. Busy every day.
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ask him about any medical conditions , if he says none ,get him to sign a statement saying that .
And another statement to say not a paedo, not gay, not racist, not a shirker and doesn't try to avoid cracks on the pavement.
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It always amazes me. Had one bad experience with a old man now we will not touch. Very ageist. This job is fine for many older folk I am 64 years never done a labour job in my life and am doing just fine. Busy every day.
Respect.
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ask him about any medical conditions , if he says none ,get him to sign a statement saying that .
And another statement to say not a paedo, not gay, not racist, not a shirker and doesn't try to avoid cracks on the pavement.
i read somewhere that its a good idea to hire slowly but sack quickly and thats good advice . yes you might be desperate because works piling up on you but slow down you move too fast -
ask a few loaded questions "how tall are you ?" im 6 foot , hang on you look only 5 foot 9 ( lying already )
"have you cleaned windows before?"
yes ,i did 3 years with the roys group"
"why did you leave "
it was last man in first man out when roy lost a contract
lies ,all lies
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ask him about any medical conditions , if he says none ,get him to sign a statement saying that .
And another statement to say not a paedo, not gay, not racist, not a shirker and doesn't try to avoid cracks on the pavement.
i read somewhere that its a good idea to hire slowly but sack quickly and thats good advice . yes you might be desperate because works piling up on you but slow down you move too fast -
ask a few loaded questions "how tall are you ?" im 6 foot , hang on you look only 5 foot 9 ( lying already )
"have you cleaned windows before?"
yes ,i did 3 years with the roys group"
"why did you leave "
it was last man in first man out when roy lost a contract
lies ,all lies
Just don't take anyone with less than a first from Oxbridge.
But I do think that if you hire slow (as you said) you hopefully won't have to sack fast.
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That Roy's of wroxham ....
Darran
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It always amazes me. Had one bad experience with a old man now we will not touch. Very ageist. This job is fine for many older folk I am 64 years never done a labour job in my life and am doing just fine. Busy every day.
Not at all, I was explaining about a 50 something that I came across, he was just a bad egg, that's not to say I would not employ an older person.
Would have just been nice to have known what I now know as far as he was concerned.
Steve