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hi all

i have been getting busier and busier .... i would like to take on a trainee 3 days a week leading to 5 days
i have asked my cousin but he has just got a job he is 17 .. ihas anyone else tried taking someone else on ? and if so ? with what complications or pros?

shawn

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  Shawn,

  Been there done it and ditched it, my advise and you will know where I'm
  coming is do not as it starts to take your valued time away. If you take
  someone on the law is you have to employ him, doing that you pay him
  holiday pay etc.. and pay a portion of NI to the tax office.

  Some may say otherwise but that is the law as it stands, if you think he can
  do as much as you hitting £15 an hour then it may be worth it. Anything less
  you will be loosing money.

  Also you have to get employer insurance which is costly.

  Just my thoughts was in the same boat but have looked at things differently
  now.

  PS had a 4 kg bag of bultong gone in a day.

  Take care.

  Doug

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hi doug

hows things had some of my sa mates over at the weekend had boerewors and pap ... YUM!

i considered taking someone on as i have had a mate of mine help me at £10 an hour but he is alot slower than me and i can normally do 200-250 a day full day though with him 300? so he aint making me money , but i need someone as i have just got 9 blocks of flats ... so ie footing me at certain points and running hose etc?


shawn

[brett walker]

I employed my cousin for many years, had nothing but greif from him dictating to me as to when he would work, when he wanted more money taking days off when he wanted.
Finally this Feb went fully wfp and got rid of him

The good thing about my wfp trolley it turns up every day it doesnt answer back it doesnt want a payrise and it very rarely takes a sickie

Best move ive ever made, your cousin might be ok but mine was a real w***er, getting good staff is very hard

Good luck

Brett.

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brilliant just got a text from him he cant make it in tomorow ... and have a office block and a block of flats booked in ... thats it i think he aint working for me anymore .... i am ill but i still have to work he is always all...

think he suffer from laziness

shawn

[brett walker]

brilliant just got a text from him he cant make it in tomorow ... and have a office block and a block of flats booked in ... thats it i think he aint working for me anymore .... i am ill but i still have to work he is always all...

think he suffer from laziness

shawn

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  brett

[windows_chepstow]

I tried it recently with a 17 year old lad.  He 'talked the talk', but couldn't do the walking bit.

He told me he'd been a brickies labourer and a plasterer's mate and could graft and to be honest he could, for a bit anyway; when he turned up; late as usual.

In the end I had to let him go and it was nothing to do with my 'man management'; I'm an ex-army Staff Sergeant; running teams of blokes (and gals and civillians on occassion) wasn't new to me.

But this guy was a waste of rations; a proper oxygen theif.

Once he was gone, it was a bit of a relief, because it meant I had more FREEDOM.  If I wanted an early finish or a late start or mince about the shops or just be plain lazy, I could.

I prefer working with Wor Lass anyway; unless it's 'mad week'.