Clean Informer Magazine Autumn 2015 | Page 20

TMF Top 10 Threads AUTUMN 2015 10. Just another day in the trenches By Deron06 Mytee Escape, NuClean Brutus prespray (no boosters whatsoever), prescrub with Electrolux floor scrubber, T Rex Jr. BEFORE AFTER 9. It was a good run while it lasted he started out as my assistant. Then I got another TM and van and put my tech out on his own As time went on things started happening that I didn’t like. He refused to work on Sundays, then Saturdays, then he didn’t want to work after 3 or 4pm. He didn’t want to tell me where he was, nor when he left a job, and sometimes when I’d tell him he had to go to another job ASAP he’d tell me he’s going to lunch first. My van got a ding on the bumper that he swears he had nothing to do. But the bumper is pretty damn strong and had yellow paint on it. The same color paint that is on poles protecting the corners of buildings. Hmm. He’d tell me I needed to charge more for jobs, he didn’t want to train a guy I wanted him to train, and he got a few extra work on my dime too. Nothing really crazy but it is what it is. Then today when I told him he had to go to a job he refused. So today I fired him. Now I’m gonna have to get up off my ass and start busting my ass again at 53 years old. 8. Is carpet cleaning going away? By Anolog139 Im partners with a guy who owns over 15 By Johnny Bravo So as most of you know I’ve recently went from services companies across the country. Mostly a one man show to a two man show. Then I hired window cleaning companies but a few carpet cleaning as well. I was talking to him last night a helper for a few months who didn’t work out. Then a guy with plenty of experience came along and picking his brain on carpet cleaning and he was saying how he feels carpet cleaning is going and I snatched him up. Things went well when away. Keep in my he’s in southern california. 20