[robertphil]

any of you lads doin a santander  for ARL , have you had a mail telling you the conditions have changed?   i have theyre wanting the screens on the counter doing / entrance wall and door closer doing for no increase in price .
  what dyou think ?

[PoleKing]

Depends how much you need the work.

I had a change similar for another company recently.
They just wrote on the bottom of each chit sheet xxx not done.
Still got paid.

[Clever Forum Name]

Halifax just done the same to us, just ignored it as the cleaner does em anyway.

[robertphil]

Halifax just done the same to us, just ignored it as the cleaner does em anyway.

who are you doing it for ?

 i was doin 2 tesco full size for ARL but theyv lost the contract .  and havnt been cleaned since mid Jan now .          im waitin to see them get cleaned  by somebody new -then i will drop santander , daft money anyway

[Clever Forum Name]

Will try and find out. It's not
My contract. I just clean it for a
Mate as he does some for me local to him.

[Don Kee]

Mate of mine had a chat to s couple of lads doing a tesco a couple of weeks ago, sure he said it was for mitie....

[Tom-01]

Would it not be better to drop doing work like that for Nationals and use the time canvassing decent paid work? I've never done any sub work for a National but everyone says the money isn't good at all. Just a thought.

[robertphil]

Would it not be better to drop doing work like that for Nationals and use the time canvassing decent paid work? I've never done any sub work for a National but everyone says the money isn't good at all. Just a thought.

 mostly doing it for a change of scene  .   i think the santander contract  is with ICM "lets keep it clean"   well thats whats on the docket paperwork , i guess that ARL sub it then sub it again to the likes of me

[Ian101]

any of you lads doin a santander  for ARL , have you had a mail telling you the conditions have changed?   i have theyre wanting the screens on the counter doing / entrance wall and door closer doing for no increase in price .
  what dyou think ?

offer to do the insides of the bandit screens and give yourself a pay rise 

[concept]

 

[AuRavelling79]

any of you lads doin a santander  for ARL , have you had a mail telling you the conditions have changed?   i have theyre wanting the screens on the counter doing / entrance wall and door closer doing for no increase in price .
  what dyou think ?

Run Forest run!

[jarvy]

LOL, you really think you are gonna make good money subbing work and making money for 2 or 3 or 4 other higher up the chain?
Its a mugs game.
I run my business to make money for me, not other people.

[AuRavelling79]

LOL, you really think you are gonna make good money subbing work and making money for 2 or 3 or 4 other higher up the chain?
Its a mugs game.
I run my business to make money for me, not other people.

Quite right!

[robertphil]

since starting the thread iv had 3 further emails from ARL , tellin me the contracts soon up and theyre worried us cleaners might not be up to scratch so we all must pull our finger out.   apparently Santander big bosses are doin spot checks on the window cleaning standards across the country . 
  its ridiculous ,a 7 pound job

[rz]

all the Santander agencies will be shuting soon so unless your cleaning main branches run away now.

[PoleKing]

since starting the thread iv had 3 further emails from ARL , tellin me the contracts soon up and theyre worried us cleaners might not be up to scratch so we all must pull our finger out.   apparently Santander big bosses are doin spot checks on the window cleaning standards across the country . 
  its ridiculous ,a 7 pound job

Just stop going.
Stop invoicing.
Ignore their calls.
Do you honestly think you're gonna get chucked? Or forced to lower prices?
You'll feel much better walking away than getting binned.

[robertphil]

im hanging on until i see the Tescos i was also doing (ARL lost contract  for them in the new year]  get cleaned, just in case im asked to restart doing them by whoever has now got the tesco contracts ,the santanders  fit in with them.

[deeege]

I do a little bit of national work, no small £7 jobs though, only big stores at £45+ per clean.

[wfp master]

LOL, you really think you are gonna make good money subbing work and making money for 2 or 3 or 4 other higher up the chain?
Its a mugs game.
I run my business to make money for  me, not other people.

correct. Why do it to line other peoples pockets.
Get your own & the £££££ are all yours. As you said its a mugs game but some still do it.

[wfp master]

Would it not be better to drop doing work like that for Nationals and use the time canvassing decent paid work? I've never done any sub work for a National worknal but everyone says the money isn't good at all. Just a thought.

its bottom of the ladder stuff as they say.
Some think its top of the ladder working for a small piece of the cake.