[paul13]

me to please paul.  drewwindow@gmail.com

Done

[PoleKing]

There's a fella in Stamford who has a few boys on his team.
His Mrs collects the whole weeks takings on a Saturday morning.
Regular as clock-work.

I know it's a bit sexist but I wouldn't be happy with my wife carrying 4 figures+ in cash on her but at least he knows his lads ain't skimming.

As has been said-the only real way to sure is using someone you truly trust. But even then you may still get bitten.
I trusted someone almost implicitly but he stabbed me in the back.
Don't know until you know.

On the flip side, when I started I worked for a guy for about 18 months.
I was doing about £6k a month for him and collecting about half(ish)
Half of that again in cash.
Obviously extra's came up every month.
I can honestly say I never creamed off the top.
Conservatory roofs. Extra insides. FSG's. I told him about every single one.
The deal was that I got half of what was earned.
I was happy at that.

Persevere OP. That guy is out there.

[upthereds]

that's the one where the employees will take is the connie roofs, gutter cleaning e.t.c but like you say if its 50/50 then they wont have to. whoever said about restraint of trade is having a laugh most wont be going through books when they first set up anyway and if you have even half intelligent lads working for you not showing them the list/book wont help at all cause they will still know the houses and will just go and knock on each door giving a rock bottom price.