Jon,
Every rig has two wands, employees are instructed to use their own wand unless theirs breaks. At the end of shift they tell their supervisor its broken. it will be replaced the same day. Long ago I marked other tool and things that each employee is personally responsible for with paint. Everyone has different color paint. I don’t charge employees for most things. I have lost a lot of telephones. If and employees honest and says they lost it and they have not lost many tools I replace it. If I have an employee that is loosing tools all the time, I fire them. I don’t know if it legal or not to charge them and if it is,( don’t tell me. ) I dont check Wands daily, this was Implemented to prevent daily checks.
hope this helps Jon
Dave-------theirs the keyword (((((((((ruralllllllllllllllllll)))))))))))
I would probably take what I could get if I lived in a rural area too. Don’t get me wrong I could do fleets, its my choice not to because of the headaches that incur. I love flat work, hood cleaning, duct cleaning, fire restoration, graffiti removal & nine thousand other things you can do are fine for other guys.
Like most if we stumble on certain perfect high profit jobs we do them. I know there are days that you think if I had enough of these kinds of jobs I would not fool with the others. If you don’t then you are just a better manager than maybe you even realize. A long time ago I gave up trying to cater to everyone and running my self to death. We also have guys like Scott that are good at what they do and have fleet washing down. If I tried to compete with Scott right now he would bury me. My rigs are set up for one thing. We have many pressures washing companies here in the area. (Hundreds) maybe ten in the phone book. Many of them specializing in one thing making that perfect and making it hard to compete in my world.
Dave, I know you understand just trying to make my point, I do understand yours. That’s great you can and have the will to entertain so many things. I am just glad that I don’t have too.
Aran
I have tried it and if you send them back and don’t pay them they might even screw you harder. Come on guys lets face it if you have an employee that wont work hourly and do the job, what make you think he will when you pay him piece work. That’s a person you don’t need. If I have an employee that’s not cutting the mustard, get rid of him or her. Isn’t this subject that simple. Come on were trying to figure out how we can make our employees motivated. How about you pay them to do their fricking job. And they do it well you give them a raise. If they don’t perform there gone bye bye.
I have had people that I could do piece work with but they were out standing employees and I made more money paying them by the hour.
I give bonus money on certain jobs and if the weekly production is up or at where we are trying to keep it my key people get bonus money for baby siting well that week.
I think it crazy that where even talking about how we can manipulate someone into doing there job. That’s just how I feel about it. Sorry
Arans nice web site I visited you a couple of weeks ago. Just trying to stop you from making mistakes I made years ago. Oh this might work if your talking about fully sub contracting. That’s a whole different ball game.
Let’s not confuse subcontracting with employee piecework.
bigbrew
Keep in mind your talking about skilled laborers. Big difference between some of the people you get to apply for a pressure washing position.
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Ron Marshal Phoenix AZ
1-888-fleetwash
[This message has been edited by Ron Marshal (edited October 22, 2000).]
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