Omni Facility Services
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Topic: Omni Facility Services
Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Subject: Omni Facility Services
Date Posted: 24/February/2008 at 3:10am
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If you're cleaning commercial carpet where Omni Facility Services is the cleaning company, be prepared to bring a crew for dry vacuuming only.
If Omni actually owns any vacuums they've probably never been pluged in  ------------- 
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 24/February/2008 at 4:56am
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It's all about saving money ------------- 
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Posted By: LilNiteRidrhood
Date Posted: 24/February/2008 at 10:34am
| Who doen'st bring a vacuum carpet cleaning? |
Posted By: splash_$$$_dash
Date Posted: 24/February/2008 at 10:59am
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Lee
we all bring "A" vacuum, but this job required about 8 :(
staples, paper clips, fruit and nuts.
This from an office tower that is vacuumed 4x a week
I use to think bee-clean was bad! (and they are LOL) http://www.bee-clean.com/ - http://www.bee-clean.com/ -------------
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 24/February/2008 at 12:46pm
Most cleaning contractors only spot vacuum. Never wall to wall. Dust builds up along edges and under desks. Carpet gets a bad name from these idiots -------------
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Posted By: LilNiteRidrhood
Date Posted: 24/February/2008 at 4:34pm
| So true cmaster. We have sold the service "detail vacuuming" before. It means we will vacuum the perimeter for them for a price. |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 24/February/2008 at 8:57pm
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The facility managers need to stop taking the lowest bid cuz they're definitely getting what they pay for -------------
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Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 25/February/2008 at 6:05am
I always got a kick out of the companies that used floor sweepers instead of vacuums  ------------- Could somebody just clean my carpets! |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 25/February/2008 at 12:10pm
A broom and a lobby dustpan. Sweep up the big stuff and no one will ever know -------------
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 25/February/2008 at 2:41pm
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And the sad part of this is more and more facility managers are giving the carpet maintenance to these people that don't even know how to vacuum a carpet. They only want to deal with one company. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 26/February/2008 at 1:22am
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I guess we have to sub off them -------------
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 26/February/2008 at 8:50am
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There is a lot of business to be had by subbing off some of the smaller janitorial companies, very hard to get work from the big companies, they will only use you when they are in big dodo ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: Hammy
Date Posted: 26/February/2008 at 9:15am
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I use to clean for a large movie theater chain. The contractor would use electric blowers and only vac up the piles. ------------- Could somebody just clean my carpets! |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 26/February/2008 at 10:48am
That's what they do here. Priceless  -------------
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Hammy wrote:Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 26/February/2008 at 11:38am
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well they only pay their people $10 per hour... what do you expect.
a $10 person is almost the bottom of the barrel.
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 26/February/2008 at 2:30pm
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$10.00 is high, most very large contracts they are lucky to gross $10.00 an hour, so to compensate for that they cut corners to cut the hours, and it ends up something like this
Empty the garbage
Do the recycle
Make the washrooms smell clean
Vacuum our bosses area
If any time left over here is a list of 10,000 things we are suppose to do according to the contract. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 26/February/2008 at 8:50pm
Exactly. I've been doing janitorial for almost 30 years. Prices just keep dropping. Service levels are at an all time low and heading down -------------
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 27/February/2008 at 8:53am
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Why do the people in these large corporations continually fall for the smoke and mirrors sales pitches from these large building maintenance contractors, when they know full well that there is no way the cost of cleaning a building can go down year after year. ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 27/February/2008 at 10:05am
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Cuz to them it's a commodity, rather than a service -------------
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Posted By: cleanex
Date Posted: 27/February/2008 at 11:50am
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How much can we save? Actually a building manager I know said that to me we are saving a bundle even though our building is filthy Reduced their cost per sq ft from 2.50 a sq ft to .79 cents for cleaning. I have not done janitorial for many a year the last contract that I had for over 15 years went out for bids and a large company under bid me by $75,000.00. I had 15 people in the building each night new company started with 8 and within a couple months reduced that to 6.
That was the end of janitorial for me, took all the equipment to the dump, to make sure I would never be tempted to re-enter the janitorial business again.l ------------- DON ELDRED YOU CAN "STAND" ON OUR REPUTATION |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 27/February/2008 at 3:05pm
I only have a few contracts left as well. I haven't bid on a contract since '97. We only do janitorial if we get paid what we want and that's very seldom. I really hate that racket -------------
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