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    Posted: 28/April/2004 at 12:16pm
How do you measure up when you ring the door bell? Professional, clean shaven well groomed?  Or just woke up in your van and could't find your toothbrush?  Which person would you prefer to enter your residence? Just my opinionGuitar
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I would have to wager by the lack of interest and participation in this post that most use the levi uniforms.  We prefer uniforms and photo name tags.  But if your busy looking like the town bum or city then why change your image. Just my opinionGuitar
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We never display the "plumbers crack" that's for sure!

That' being said I also wont hire you if you're a fat slob.

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Are you saying you would hire a skinny slob?

Doug

I would prefer a professional who wore a uniform and was relatively clean coming into my home.

I know uniforms are not for everybody but it definitely says something about the way you are going to approach the job. At least my first impression that is what I would think.

I do realize that it has nothing to do with their ability to clean but first impression means everything.

 

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  I'd think a clean pair of normal jeans a clean buttondown shirt with company and employee name on it would be plenty.  People in full uniforms in my house tend to make me nervous.  I don't think "professional" so much as "official" and officials in the house is an idea that doesn't seem to jive.  I want to be comfortable with the person in the house, not feeling like they are looking for an opporunity to find something to call the police about. 

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TomR:  You amaze me with all your paragraphs of your knowledge and say appearance means nothing.  Get your commerical contracts or residential and keep in mind you will be bidding on the low end contracts.  You certainly will not last long in a high end building with you employees running around in bluejeans.  But maybe you live back in the hills and bluejeans are the only fashion.  Why would you have your employees wearing $60.  jeans and be uncomfortable when proper work attire is half the price.  Well I have said enough, Maybe in with one of your presentations you can explain to an excetutive how professional appearing your people are.  Just my opinionGuitar
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lol doug,  if a cleaner came to my house dressed in a $1000 suit and displayed the same smugness and sarcasm as you did above there, I'd have him out on his ear.  I imagine your the type of cleaner that smiles to the customers face then when your driving away from the job later you have all kinds of nasty comments to make about them and their home.  Yep, that is definitely not what I want in my home or around my family.

  I was just giving my opinion of what my own reaction as a customer is when people show up at my door to do work.  No need to get all worked up strokin that little banjo. 

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Well Mr. TomR maybe you should take the pepsi challange and have two people show up to someone's home one with in jeans and a tshirt and the other in a uniform and see who they prefer on first impression bases.  I can't remember the last time we were cleaning commerical that the company cleaners had bluejeans on.  You Must have some special gift to know just what any cleaner would say when they leave a residence.  I think the days of showing up to work in jeans are gone.  I know many companies send thrie people home if they forget their photo ID.  We also carry photo ID.  Maybe you can write that into your hand book.  Just my opinion.Guitar
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If I had a cleaner show up with white cargo pants and white running shoes it would blow my mind. What is even better is if he were to wear an enviro identification badge and booties. Which many big companies are now getting into.

I would be so impressed, it is that easy to impress people. You should see how bad most of my customers present them selfs. Some even look infectious.

Try to remember we are in the cleaning business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

 



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 I think that in the cleaning business a pair of jeans and a company shirt with a company logo on it is just fine.  Anything more is overkill.  IMHO
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wear what you want but just make damn sure you dont show up with BODY ODOR or TOO MUCH OLD- SPI CE on

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I like a uniform.....but what ever you wear...look clean....hair cut...shave...smell nice....van must be clean...inside and out...tools must be clean...that means no hair balls under wand...

If it's a customer that I've done a few times...I might wear jeans...but if it's someone I never met...I want my uniform....just the way you look could possibly get you a re service

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""Well Mr. TomR maybe you should take the pepsi challange and have two people show up to someone's home one with in jeans and a tshirt and the other in a uniform""

I said a clean pair of jeans and a clean button down shirt.  There is a difference between a button down shirt and a tshirt, unless your tshirts happen to have biuttons in them.  Anyways, my point is just that appearence is only one part (not even the most important one) of the overall service to be balanced in proportion with the rest.  I'll be sure to put that in my handbook, thanks, I'll send you a copy when its all done. 

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Now that you all look Fabulous in your Jeans or Uniforms.

Lets get that equipment cleaned up before you inter the business or home.

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