Good point Fox,
we were asked to cover for a local school whilst their caretaker/cleaner was off sick. That lasted 18 months !!
![Shocked :o](http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/Smileys/classic/shocked.gif)
We didn't charge enough and little schoolchildren don't tend to be very domesticated.... :
![Smiley :)](http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/Smileys/classic/smiley.gif)
so we decided to up the price to a more realistic figure, but still not as much as we were charging elsewhere. The school said, "but we only pay our cleaner £5 per hour".
![Cry :'(](http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/Smileys/classic/cry.gif)
Had to explain that's why they couldn't find a replacement + it wasn't really £5 as they had to pay for ....training, equipment, chemicals, consumables, sicness, holidays, overtime, absenteeism, pension, NIC's etc.
![Shocked :o](http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/Smileys/classic/shocked.gif)
I trust the person we were talking to wasn't Head of Maths
![Grin ;D](http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/Smileys/classic/grin.gif)
Needless to say we left, (our decision). I later met the new man who was the grandad of a pupil. He didn't know how to work the polisher, what chemicals did what or how he would ever get all the work done in the time allowed, (2 hrs per day)
Hey Ho
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Les