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« Last post by markymark on January 09, 2026, 11:22:16 am »
You'll get the dross at first as you sift through the rubbish you take on at the start just to get the round built. When you've got a reliable round producing work and money at the desired rate it's a lot easier to let the pita customers go - the same ones who complain they can never find a reliable cleaner. And by 'reliable' they mean :
1) turns up at a moments notice when customer decides they need their windows cleaning.
2) can 100% accurately predict the customers interpretation of good weather, and conversely bad weather.
3) Is happy to be turned away half way through a clean because of >insert reason here<. And not be paid for the work they've already done.
4) Doesn't require the payment that the customer has already decided the job is worth, usually a fiver for a detached 4 bed with conservatory, veluxes and roof lantern. You'll be fine for them to wait to remember to pay you because "oh its only a fiver, you're not that desperate are you?"
5) Can also provide pet amusement services whilst dodging the mounds of dog poo and simultaneously fending off their £3k worth of mongrel ("oh its a cockerlabradoodle" - yeah, you mean mongrel) who has "never bit anyone". Then follows the game where its knicked a squeegee and is now ragging it to pieces, to the amusement of the householder. Or has lunged at the brush, grabbed it an wrestled you for it until the amused owner decides it might cost them in vet dental bills and demands you stop letting it attack your gear.
Yeah, I miss those customers
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