Hiring a new guy?!?!??!?

[Bates Detailing]

Alot less chance of hiring someone that will try to steal your customers too

* Beware of hiring Firemen

Hmmmm - sounds like an interesting story there...........

Remember that some people do great interviews. They can spin the BS and figure out exactly what you want to hear. Be sure to go out and look at their car! That will tell you a lot about their attention to (ahem) detail.

You might also ask your accountant about 1099/independent contractor status. Could be easier to let them go w/o unemployment issues if they turn out to be duds.

True about the interview.... but I will have to say that none of my current guys or myself even have clean cars whatsoever lol! We do it all day and could really care less about our rides lol. I did actually start a guy for tommorrow who agreed to 1099 - so we'll see how that goes.

I suggest during the interview process, play the following song in continous loop on low volume and see what reaction you get

URGENT TELEGRAM MESSAGE

I'm only a few hours away.stop
Please review attachment.stop
Been fully trained to use.stop
Full resume to follow.stop

Thanks for your consideration.stop

J/K

Continued good luck with your business and new-hire!

Bob

lol - thanx man

About 4 years ago a friend of mine was looking for some help. He took what I thought was an excellent approach. As he was driving around running errands he would watch employees at various places. He found a guy at the local grocery store that was killing himself. Knowing the guy didn't make very much he asked him how much he made. The guy said he was making $8 an hour. He handed him his business card and told him that if he wanted to make $12 an hour to give him a call. The guy called him a few hours later. He told the guy he would pay him in cash the first day and then cut him checks after that if everything worked out. He does a 1099 every year with the guy and everything takes care of itself. It is a trade business very similar to detaling so he knows that sooner or later he is going to go off on his own but for now both guys are happy and yes, he has increased his pay every year.

He also does the $20 bill check on the first day with new guys. He puts a $20 bill in the top of the toolbox and tells the guy to go and get a wrench. At the end of the day if the $20 bill is still there he knows he has a decent guy. In the last 3 years he has only had one guy who took the money, needless to say the guy doesn't work for him. One kid actually brought him the $20 bill and told him that it wasn't a good idea to leave money in his toolbox because he could lose it. lol

Good luck in your search.

Good info here man - really appreciate it. I guess the 20 dollar test is better than say a makita test, cyclo test, or vx5000 test.

I wish I could help you Anthony but I don't know the first thing about trying to hire someone for a detailing job.

If my day job keeps up the way it has I may be off on my own making SeaJay's work! lol...time will tell...

Im sure you do good SeaJay - love the new logo by the way.... good stuff man :dblthumb2:

 

[Flash Gordon]

That would be interesting to see the effects lol - drove me nuts after about 1 minute of listening to it :surrender:

Thats whats your looking for. If the guy/gal starts getting real nervous looking, thats your hire rops:

 

[RTexasF]

What do you think is a good method for that..... like a week probationary period or something similar?!?!?!?

This shouldnt be this nerve racking lol.

Nah, if they work well tell them to come back tomorrow. If not tell them not to come back tomorrow.

 

[XLNTShine]

WOW.. the old $20 bill trick. I used to work for a car-wash/detail shop a long time ago. The owner Bob would do the same things except with a 100 bill. I guess that is more tempting? He would put it in a car that was going to be washed or detailed. Sometimes he would tell the owner, other times he would slide it in when pulling cars in the line. We never had anyone take the cash but a few times it did get sucked into the vacuum. This being a large remove vacuum on the side of the building.. I would laugh to see him run over to open the clean out door and start digging in the dirt. One cool thing though, we did get to keep what ever we pulled out of the island or main vacuum. He also had a rule about moving a customers seat or changing the customers radio station, or temperature settings. These were No No's to Mr. Bob.

Sorry for the rant... just had a flash back!

 

[C. Charles Hahn]

He also had a rule about moving a customers seat

Sorry, but if I'm detailing an interior, the seats are getting moved all the way back or forward so I can get to everything. I'm not just going to leave part of the carpet dirty because I didn't move the seat out of the way.

 

[Flash Gordon]

Sorry, but if I'm detailing an interior, the seats are getting moved all the way back or forward so I can get to everything. I'm not just going to leave part of the carpet dirty because I didn't move the seat out of the way.

I always set the memory as soon as I get in a car. Learned this trick along time ago

 

[RTexasF]

Great if it's got it. I've only done one since 1996 that had a power memory seat.