I get nervous sending a guy out to do a vacant who has less than a year's experience. That's a far cry from where I started.
I started in the business in 1982 with no experience running a leased cleaning department for a major retailor. (Adler and Sons, for those that might remember them. They represented many retailers in major markets across the U. S. and Canada). I got a weeks worth of training on cleaning in the company's office in Milwaukee working as The Boston Store Cleaning Service. Another week's worth of training in Hartford Connecticut at another of the company's offices , G. Fox & Company. And then I opened up the Detroit office as J.C. Penney Home Cleaning.
Back then, I would try to hire experienced cleaners and give them just a day or two to get the paperwork down and off they would go. If a guy had no experience, I would train them for a week or so and send them out on their own. Here I was training people to clean even though I only had a week's worth of training myself.
I did get a lot more experience though over the years. I still remember a guy coming into work one morning just to let me know he quit! No notice and a full schedule. I had a decent office person answering the phone, so off I went to clean. That same scenario repeated itself many times over the 4 years I worked there.
Um, I need you go from building to building with your on vehicle. I give gas cards. Next!
