The big names are all the same, they will kick you in the teeth at the drop of a hat.
What happens is that some bright spark in an office somewhere is trying to make the books look better by cutting corners. It is often a bright new executive with a shiny new job and company car, who wants to show how clever they are at saving money.
So this shiny new exec will do the grand tour of stores under his command, and decide that it is cheaper to pop down poundland for a bucket and squeegee. Then if he barks loud enough about team spirit and pulling together, to his already fed up employees, the whole place will soon be spic and span for a fraction of the cost.
What then happens is that each manager has the sorry task of explaining to the existing windie that he is now out of a job, and the even more thankless task of prodding some spotty herbert into action.
Said spotty herbert is usually a stroppy teenager with a natural aversion to soapy water, and will go to extraordinary lengths not to be seen handling any type of cleaning equipment by his mates, who usually hang about waiting to rofl at herbert who will be clad in the finest polyester/nylon shirt, trousers and shoes, whilst sporting a cheap plastic bucket of soapy water, a squeegee on a stick and a deeply pained expression.
Herbert will duck dive hide and ignore his responsibility until the place is due for another visit from the shiny new exec. By this time the place will be filthy and a pain to clean, even for a pro. Herbert is finally ordered to the task on pain of losing his job or pizza privelages. He sets about the task in a predictable half arsed manner leaving the place looking as if it had been the victim of vandals.
Area manager digs at manager, manager digs at herbert and herbert gets back to it until area manager finally leaves or his shift ends, whichever is first. This cycle is repeated on the basis of the area managers visits.
Over a period of months the less obvious windows get progressivly worse, until one day a shiny ambitious new window cleaner catches the manager in a good mood and wins a new job at a rock bottom price. window cleaner will be happy, herbert will be happy and manager will be happy. The money is usually found in petty cash, so it may be a while before the area manager is aware that once again there is another mouth to feed from the pay roll.
The whole thing starts again when a shiny new area manager gets his shiny new job and company car, and sends out the order to bin the window cleaner to cut costs.
Basically you can't trust these people they will kick you in the teeth eventually.
Rant over......
