Sears Carpet Cleaning
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Topic: Sears Carpet Cleaning
Posted By: Allied13
Subject: Sears Carpet Cleaning
Date Posted: 30/July/2008 at 4:33pm
| I live in Syrcause, New York and Sears Carpet and Upholstry does the job. I had them do my carpets this week and they turned out great. Searsclean.com for more information about them. I would highly recommend you to use them. Comments? |
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 30/July/2008 at 6:03pm
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Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 30/July/2008 at 6:05pm
| Another no namer jerk........... |
Posted By: Mick Oz
Date Posted: 30/July/2008 at 11:18pm
No end to them is there? Mick ------------- I'm a happy Little SLIDER |
Posted By: Soil Lint Green
Date Posted: 31/July/2008 at 2:12pm
Looks like somebody in Syracuse is a Sears Sucker.  Lowers the standards of Sears in the eyes of anyone that googles this thread and then reads our responses to a failing carpet cleaning organization Sears represents. At least Home Depot has enough respect for its reputation that it wouldn't do this unless the Mr. Incompetent who started this thread gets hired on by them to weave some more of his trickery which seems to be the only way Sears can get anyone to buy their outsourced services. The truth is there are major lawsuits against that Syracuse Sears for destroying carpets, rugs and furniture. The state attorney general is seeking criminal charges against all those involved. As they say Caveat Emptor - Buyer Beware. There, hopes that drives a wedge between what Syrcause, New York and Sears Carpet and Upholstry does from the Searsclean.com website. Check them out and then run the other way. I approve this ad. ------------- It's ORY GUN, not OR A GONE. Learn to talk. |
Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 31/July/2008 at 6:43pm
| sears in oakville ontario does a good job. |
Posted By: Searsguy
Date Posted: 31/July/2008 at 7:04pm
| wow why the sears bashing? its not all that bad man. everyone in here always complains about sears and stanley and think they are the best over anyone. when you want some advice all you get are you guys bashing eachother and you really never answer the asled question. seems like its your way or the highway. just bitter that sears has a larger customer base i guess. i probrably make more than your so called tech's combined |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 31/July/2008 at 9:28pm
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Searsgay when you learn how to ask a question we will gladly answer it for ya?? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 01/August/2008 at 2:09am
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When spammers stop using our board for their self promotion we will stop bashing them. In the meanwhile what we are doing is what should be done to any self serving fool who dares to tread in here. No one like spammers and that goes for people who might be looking for a decent carpet cleaner and are misled into believing Sears is top dog by posts like those that populate the search engines by being posted on boards with terrific reputations. You asked one question: Why the searsucker bashing. There is your answer now take it up with sears corporate. ------------- Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity? |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 01/August/2008 at 9:09am
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In Canada Sears is the Top dog...maybe not in quality of cleaning ..but in the amount of Jobs they book. The GTA alone books around 200+ jobs a day.
I don't know any other company that can book so many.
Bad or good people just keep calling them back.
Being a former Sears guy I can tell you ....the way to get good is to clean carpet annd furniture...and if you work for sears you get 35 to 40 jobs a week easy.
Lots of you don't even clean that in a year and you call yourself professional.
Lots of the subs are pulling 8 to 10 thousand a mounth...at that sh*tty percentage, and they still make more than most of the private guys around.
I've been on my own now since 2005 stealing a lot of customers over my 10 years of working there. You think Sears feels that...LOL NO WAY new boobs call every damn day...LOL
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Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 01/August/2008 at 12:52pm
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I guess if you only know the SEARS way of doing business what can anyone expect. Hard to teach an old new dog new tricks??? ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 01/August/2008 at 1:10pm
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Why do people choose a big name like sears? Recognized name associated with a large company who they believe actually employees these subs contractors and have 100% control over. They know if something is screwed up sears will not move and change its name to avoid dealing with a lawsuit. What they don't know is how sears will transfer the blame to the sub and act clueless in court if they ever show up, that there is not quality control in place, that Sears knows carpet cleaning like it knows siding and that you are being sold the perception of being with the most knowledgeable carpet cleaning company who will care for your carpets like care for your children. Name Brand Recognition - misused by so many big and small. You Know The Name - yeah, but they weren't making anything even close to the crap you want me to believe the exact same company is making and selling now because they went out of business. Point is this is a situation involving business ethics and not how successful a company is with sh*tty ethics. Sears once was a credible company who would apologize for its people and products, now it is doing whatever it takes to survive even it means doing in the customers belief in them because they have a massive market manipulation machine in place to deal with the shouts of unsatisfied customers and drown out their cries with lies while denying culpability or the extent of shared responsibility (the problem is caused by you the homeowner because you did not care for your carpet according to manufacturer guidelines and our excellent cleaning service just goes to prove it). That about does it, if errors of omission are the way to build a successful business lets all hire former car salesmen to do our bidding. Then hide behind an offshore call center, an impossible to navigate call tree and an arrogant attempt at stifling the customer by denying any validity to their claims with the services of people who serve at Sears' beckon and call. It costs less money to do the work thoughtlessly than to approach it thoughtfully. ------------- Are you in a high paying business or are you just a self employed low paid grunt who thinks this business provides dignity? |
Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 01/August/2008 at 4:15pm
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Any real company needs people...not just 1 guy!
sales people
AR/AP people
people to answer the phones
people to clean the carpets.
1 guy does not make a business! 1 guys makes a JOB.
A lot of you guys are not really running a business you are just doing a job and getting a pay cheque.
So then, go work for Sears and all you have to do is clean carpet.
no sales, no collecting money 90 days later, no running around for chemicals...it's all right there at the Sears office.
sounds better to me than a 1 man band trying to do sales one day then clean carpet the next.
with Sears you have calls every day FOR SURE!!!
one man show ????? crying every
 January and February begging his friends on ICS to send him money so the phone does not get cut off or getting people to send money because he blew the pump on his truck mount.Ask Ted how many guys come in a buy 1 gallon of this and 1 gallon of that?
That's not a business! C'mon guy...you can't afford a case of Formula 77?
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 01/August/2008 at 10:34pm
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Duckcountry you know nothing about Sears... That post is all bull crap!
Take if from someone who knows. Sears stands behind all there products 100%
This is how it breaks down in Canada
Sears owns the name. For that they get only 13% off the top.
The sell a guy a franchise....the franchise owner in turn hires employees
a rookie works for 13% booked 17% upsell
a Senior Tech gets 20%booked 25% upsell
some franchisee owners sub out the work
a sub gets 35% booked 45% on up sell
reservices and damages is the subs problem...but Sears
takes care of it, and charges it to the franchise owner...and
then he charges it to the sub... interest free payments if it's
a large amount.
Sears takes care of there customer first at all costs.... as a sub you could loose thousands if your not careful...doing a sh*t job only costs you as a sub
Duckcountry you're posting about a company you know nothing about.
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Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 01/August/2008 at 11:24pm
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For commercial in the GTA:
ServiCare
Interior Care
ServiceMaster
30% to the tech
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Posted By: Searsguy
Date Posted: 02/August/2008 at 6:09pm
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mr steamer and kien are correct!!!!! do maybe one of you own a franchise? which one did you work for? to be honest i wasnt really looking for an argument just wondering what you have against sears? i have been there 8 yrs and have many custys i clean for and only i clean for or it doesnt get done!!! we are not all HACKS as you so called PROS call us. we do exactly what you PROS do but MORE OFTEN!!!! yes sears gets us the jobs but they DO stand behind their name if there is a problem. up here sears doesnt sub out their work. i do what you do sometimes better sometimes maybe not as good who knows but in the end we do the same work. i dont rush the jobs, i move all necessary furn apply the protection properly, remove as much soil and as many stains as you would. only difference is i dont pay for gas, chemicals, tools, or repairs!!!!! and i also make a load of $$$ to do it.
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Posted By: duckcountry
Date Posted: 02/August/2008 at 6:54pm
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Is everyone missing the point or do you just like seeing sleezeballs post self promoting messages, never coming back because all it amounts to is spam and their trash messages staying on the board rather than someone doing the simple task of killing the thread? If you like spam, can I sell your email addresses to a few list brokers? Or is this going to be a broken record about how Sears is not a bad guy outfit despite the fact that they allow these spams to continue, spams aimed at lessening the chances for small business to make headway? What are your priorities? Building YOUR business or helping Searsuckers take yours down a notch while building theirs? Kleenkuip does not stand to make any more promoting sears, Prochem does however. Anyone here have stock in Sears or Prochem? Or is most of your stock in your trade? |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 02/August/2008 at 9:49pm
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you where the one who went off on sears with your bull sh*t post.
spam or not it turned into a topic now..
how many jobs do you do in a week DC and be honest
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Posted By: Searsguy
Date Posted: 02/August/2008 at 10:31pm
mr duck and cmster. i am by no means telling anyone to use sears and am NOT promoting anything for them. i simply work for them thats it thats all. i get my calls in the a.m, fill my truck with fuel, go do my calls, and go home to a loving family. i actually work my tail off as you MUST know we do many calls a day. sometimes its busier than others. i do them to the best of my ability JUST LIKE YOU. you should be happy you make more than me!!!! I make great $$$ but do work hard. like it was said before everything is supplied for us so yes we actually have no headaches when it comes to other stuff we simply DO THE WORK and make the owners alot of $$$$. no promoting sears here in anyway from this dude it wasnt me that opened the discussion i simply said we all do the same things day in day out!! 
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 02/August/2008 at 11:03pm
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I wasn't bashing you or Sears and I certainly didn't comment on your work ethics. It's pretty easy to tell that this guy is promoting Sears in Syracuse. Maybe he should post it on some consumer website so it will be read by the intended parties -------------
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Posted By: FreshAire
Date Posted: 02/August/2008 at 11:10pm
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In all honesty, max I'll do in a week, and that's if I'm really pushing the limits, is 20. More often than not however, it's closer to the 10-15 mark, but there aren't enough hours in the day for me to do more! To anyone doing more than that in a day, I'd challenge the statement that you are doing the best job possible... adequate, maybe and barely that, but I know what my customers say about my work in comparison to others they've tried and it's my attention to detail that wins out; price becomes secondary when the service far exceeds previous experience, as does the result especially when the carpets look/feel/smell better and stay that way for longer. Perceived value is what it's about at the end of the day! So, I work less jobs, but earn more profitable dollars (altho quite possibly less gross amount at the end of the day, it's about the profit, not turnover!) and don't rush myself I like the idea of spending time on good jobs, earning the $'s there instead of running all over town chewing up expensive fuels and wasting hours behind the wheel of my truck everyday, where I earn absolutely nothing and in fact am losing money rapidly via my truck's tailpipe! |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 03/August/2008 at 11:28am
some days I could get through 10 jobs easy but they would have to be empty and close by...ie a string of empty co-ops or University Housing...I've done up to 17 in a day...with 3 trucks we finish 50 in a day....the other guys did more than I did..but that was the basic pre-spray and extract no spot removal...thats what they wanted..
somedays it takes me 8 hours to do 3 calls...depending on the size, what is required for the job how dirty it is.
You can't put time limit on the work.. you just work to get her done!!!
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FreshAire wrote:Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 03/August/2008 at 3:05pm
See above. You are in the wrong business!!!. Go get a job where you can take the bus to and from and stay there for your shift, it is that simple.
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Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 03/August/2008 at 3:07pm
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no wait, you'll be losing money on the fee of the bus pass.
better yet....walk to work or stay home and work from home---uh oh----losing money on paying rent---> buy a tent...much cheaper!!!
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Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 03/August/2008 at 3:07pm
| Please send me $99.00 +GST that is my fee for solving all your problems. |
Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 03/August/2008 at 4:13pm
| I did 23 empty apts in the same bldg one day..! 1br & 2br apt's!! |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 03/August/2008 at 6:19pm
| become a male whore....and just lye on your back all day |
Posted By: FreshAire
Date Posted: 03/August/2008 at 8:19pm
f**k me you guys are sensitive  @ now nearly $7.00/USgallon yeah my fuel is expensive and not to be wasted, and why would you want to waste an hour driving between jobs anyway? Time behind the wheel is time wasted I'd have thought. Spray and suck ain't the best job possible, but if it's what the customer wants I didn't say it wasn't the best standard that you can attain for the job parameters; I just simply don't chase that work. I like to maximise returns on the job I'm at. It's a matter of choice and dunno why you need to get so steamed up about it. 70 jobs side by side in a bunch of units ain't 70 jobs, they're one big one! And when it comes to running yourself ragged trying to fit in 7 jobs a day, hoping you don't get held up somewhere along the line, getting stressed out when you do, why would you wanna? Taking my time with 2-3 jobs a day is less stressful and easier on the body, let alone more profitable. Ignorant? Nah, don't think so, maybe pot calling the kettle black?  Each to their own dude... |
Posted By: Soil Lint Green
Date Posted: 03/August/2008 at 9:06pm
Does that work well for you? ------------- It's ORY GUN, not OR A GONE. Learn to talk. |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 1:44am
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well freshair if you need to drive an hour between jobs...you need to move your operation to a burb.
I never drive more than 15 mins to my next job...LOL
I route them that way...I book them according to where I'll be...
It's called USING YOUR f**kING HEAD to run your business.
Yes I'm gawd damn sensitive when someone tries to bullsh*t me.
I can do 7 jobs in a f**king day ...don't hold that against me...I'm in shape
I'm not some short f**ker with a pot belly that gets in the way of the wand, I don't get winded when I go up steps...and I don't almost pass out if I have to bend down.
IF YOU CAN f**kIN READ I SAID EVERY f**kIN BODY IS DIFFERENT!
IF YOU CAN 'T TAKE f**kING HEAT GET OUT OF THE HOUSE I'M STEAMIN!
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 1:49am
IF NOT SHUT THE f**k UP NO ONE WAS TALKING TO YOU
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Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 2:08am
Doods who can't book 5 or 7 jobs a day will always say its because they don't "want to"
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Posted By: FreshAire
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 2:48am
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Yeah right, whatever Steamed-up and Ken's_Not_OK_With_Me Come to Perth and see how things may be a bit different to the conditions you have in your patch and then post a valid comment. Still, however you wanna look at it, 7 jobs @ 15 mins ea between jobs = 2hrs of driving per day where you're not earning. My 3 jobs = 1 hr of driving (and I am including travel to and from 1st and last job there), not to mention time wasted in setting up then packing up on 7 jobs vs 3 jobs + quick chat with each customer, with the average job @ $200-250 AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS (I'll let you work out the exchange given you're so on the ball). Don't know what your average is so I won't comment there, plus our prices are inherently higher given LOCAL conditions. Start 9.30am, normally finished 4pm-5pm-ish (2.30pm now, home for a bite... to eat that is, before heading off t last one around the corner). Come home today with $650 in my pocket and unstressed and off to visit my significant other for the evening and take day off with her tomorrow (cos I can  ).Lies you say Ken? No, it's how I market myself... it's not all just about you being right or don't you get anyone else's view point beyond you own? Man you guys need to take some chill pills and realise that we all have different ways of being, my way being right for me and your way not (for me!). But if you're up for it, go for it. I simply like to enjoy my life and not just work myself stupid- even if you think I have already managed to do that
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 2:51am
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People who aint working ..always talk about having clients...clientel....
people who don't know two flying f**ks about cleaning carpet always do the best job.
Ken_is_ok thats why I like you ... tell it as it is..... they can't book 5 to 7 jobs...they are lucky if the clean that in a month.
I don't want to do lots of jobs in a day
But what am I suppose to do if my phone rings and the customer wants it now! or tomorrow... If I don't book it they will call someone else.
If you can't do 5 jobs in a day with a truckmount..I think there is something wrong with you.
2 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon...
8am first job
10-12 secound job
12-2 third job
2-4 fourth job
4-6 fifth job
loads of space...
How I know guys like freshair know nothing about nothing....because of the bill sh*t he spews here.
if he was smart he would do as much as he could in oneday... leaves more space for more calls... so when a customer calls in they don't have to wait until next week....or they don't hang up and call someone else
but freshair doesn't have that problem...he has no calls...he is a weekend warrior ! him and his butt buddy linty
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 2:58am
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not all the jobs are 15 mins away...those are just the far ones.... most are 5 mins away.....3 jobs 650 huh...you do that everyday right???
I like they way you put a dollar amount on your jobs.....we never talked about dollar amount..but you felt a need to inject that into the post...
are you trying to validate something???
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 3:00am
| a jobs is a jobs big or small...it all depends on the conditions when you get there...some small jobs turn into big money...but we weren't talking about money |
Posted By: FreshAire
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 3:21am
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Quote Mr Steamer "I like they way you put a dollar amount on your jobs.....we never
talked about dollar amount..but you felt a need to inject that into the
post...
are you trying to validate something???" No, I'm just trying to put some perspective in there. Like I said, I don't know what it's like there exactly so I wouldn't comment on it, but that's how I operate. Find that hard to swallow? That's fine, but I'm not the only one here doing things that way. Kinda sad to think that you think you are right and I am such a moron cos I don't do how you do. Trying perspective here so that people can make up their own minds about options and which way is right for them. You have your way, I have mine; mine being an inherently lazy way and yours the harder way as it involves a lot of running around- but that is my opinion, obviously not yours. As to your comment "I don't want to do lots of jobs in a day. But what am I suppose to do if my phone rings and the customer wants it now! or tomorrow... If I don't book it they will call someone else. If you can't do 5 jobs in a day with a truckmount..I think there is something wrong with you." I used to be the same way and yes, I could polish off 5-6 jobs a day once I bought my 1st truckmount, but I chose to do otherwise and learned to say "NO" to the stuff I didn't really want. If that's wrong for you, then so be it. Works fine for me though, so I'll carry on spewing my own brand of bullsh*t as you so eloquently put it |
Posted By: FreshAire
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 3:37am
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Quoting myself... "Don't know what your average is so I won't comment there, plus our prices are inherently higher given LOCAL conditions." Like I said, dunno what your prices are, but there are mine. Wasn't meant to be a dig at you, why are you taking that way and why izzit that you are so sensitive about it?? And yes, that is pretty much a normal day for me and many of my peers here in this particular part of the planet that we happen to inhabit. Quoting you... "8am first job 10-12 secound job
12-2 third job
2-4 fourth job
4-6 fifth job
loads of space.."my 1st job 9.30am rather than your 8am, last one no later booking than 3.30pm cos I like to be home by 5pm at the latest if I can. Yes I work less, my choice, and don't work weekends, my lifestyle choice. Is that really so offensive to you? And come to think of it, why is it? You're happy your way, I'm happy in mine. Let others see that there is more than one way of being and make up their own minds. Or are you too narrow-minded to admit that your way is not the only way?? |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 10:33am
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Hey don't try to push this off on me... you believe that anyone doing more than 2-3 jobs is not giving quality of service... AND THAT IS SIMPLY NOT SO.
It's also the person physical abitlity...driving distances. etc.
You right it is your choice to do less jobs...
It's your right to only get upper class clientel
I guess if you could book more jobs, you wouldn't be losing customers
my narrow minds sees that
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Posted By: Soil Lint Green
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 12:40pm
Good advice, you should recognize that as such and just stay out of the threads until you get over your PMS or sober up - you and Ken_Is_NOT_OK. ------------- It's ORY GUN, not OR A GONE. Learn to talk. |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 1:05pm
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Linty if would stop acting like Freshairs echoing biatch...maybe we wouldn't have to bitch slap you
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Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 1:46pm
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No jobs today for anybody????????????
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 1:57pm
| Holiday here in Canada |
Posted By: Steaminpile
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 7:20pm
i used to work my  off like Steamer does,,,,nowadays i prefer to be home and have dinner with my family.
each to their own
btw there is no sears cleaning here any more......i heard plenty about carpets taking 3 days to dry when they were though.......made everyone else look like super heroes
 it's the tech not the name IMO ------------- A.K.A. Andy |
Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 7:23pm
| Holiday In Canada Buddy |
Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 7:27pm
even with dual 2 stage vacs it should take less than a day to dry 
3 days??? thats when the tech uses 500 psi ninja with a 4 jet wand all 80003 jets and only turns on 1 vacuum hahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa idiots
 or a cleancold TM and forgot to turn on the blower bewahahahah
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Posted By: Steaminpile
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 7:33pm
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he had an old TM,,,,no idea what kind.....but it was a beast of a van. ------------- A.K.A. Andy |
Posted By: doug
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 8:28pm
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Hell I guess i will never be as successful as the GTA boys i had to work today? But we all have to live somewhere. ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 04/August/2008 at 11:13pm
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That was your choice...
I closed Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday...I haven't had a good break in a while
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Posted By: Ken_Is_OK
Date Posted: 05/August/2008 at 8:38am
you chose to work take time to smell the coffee and play with your kids or grand kids
work sucks so I do it as little as possible.
see...I'm not working now
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Posted By: John L
Date Posted: 05/August/2008 at 11:52am
Sometimes i clean slow.. sometimes i clean quick.. They train the Sears guys to clean quick.. 
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