CMRwindowcleaning
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Who has people working for them? Be it 1 or 100? Young lads or grown men? How do you manage them...what do you pay them?
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10 is top dollar for a youngster. when i started employing i paid 8, this was a mistake , i got no respect .Holiday pay and Xmas bonus sounds sweet!! Got any jobs going? Lol @boarcity I pay £10 an hour minus the little extras...hopefully I'll find someone reliable soon!
I pay that as the guy I have at the moment is a mate and a fully grown fella with responsibilities but I know what you mean I had someone before (family) was paying £10 an hour and he ended up asking what I would be making that day and then asking if he would be getting more on certain days when he knew I was doing a big day of earning! Forgot to say I pay through the lunch break aswel! The next guy is definitely starting on £7 and getting the incentive of extra money for reliability and hard work!10 is top dollar for a youngster. when i started employing i paid 8, this was a mistake , i got no respect .
This is what I mean. It's so hard to get someone that actually has an interest in working hard as the face of your business. I think it's good to have people out in teams with a target for the day. pay one guy (more experienced) a little more each day to make sure the jobs done right and keep the other focused. Then regularly do random checks on the both of them and if it's not done right the one on the most dosh gets it in the neck!the biggest firm in my area does it differently. each pair of lads have to take 250 in takings daily to make target . the only way to do it without bustin a gut is to cut corners , of course they do. turnover of staff is alarmingly high! , im not sure what the rate of pay is but theyre paid till 4pm but often hide up from 2pm if the targets met
no, trad. iv never regretted employing. however my family thought it would be a bad idea,instead they advised "jus downsize a tad and then slog on FOR THE NEXT 20 YRS OR SOYeah sounds great to be able to keep track of them all in one go and to have the work all close enough together to make it work! Do you use wfp? @boarcity
when you had 10 employees were you running the whole show single handed?i used to employ 10 people at one point. total nightmare and i was making less than i am at the moment with 3 people.
had too many wages, vans, fuel, extra insurances, materials, holiday pay etc.
Now its me as director and 3 workers and it works well. we do internal cleans for builders but also window cleaning for them so they can do everything.
Took me a while to get folk worthwhile though, you'll go through 10 to get 1 semi decent one though, easily