[Village Gleam]

To put Gazza's question another way- Dave and trev- (woods not morriss obviously), say  all of us posting were all your in house managers with our differing ideas do you think it would be hard to keep us, or would we be head hunted?

[D woods]

Dave we don't employ any East Europeans, but I know of some window cleaning companies that do and they seem to do OK with them.

Mr S I don't know if you would get head hunted.

[Art]

Is Polish the answer?

They can be if you pay them decent money

[Moderator David@stives]

I am more thinking of there work ethic, where i live i watch them out on the fields picking flowers and veg in all weathers , then i look at my staff who are always messing me about.

Maybe i am employing the wrong type

[D woods]

Dave do you many of them in Cornwall ?

[mark dew]

i would hire a pole for the reasons that they are here solely to earn money. They are in less of a position to grab your business and the fact that they are in a foreign country would mean that they are more of a blank canvass when it comes to training them up to the level you expect from an employee.
They would also be more grateful to find what in their case would be a very well paid job working sociable hours.

[Moderator David@stives]

Dave

Theres thousands of them here working on the fields, the work is to hard for the locals, going back a few years the farmers were losing a fortune because they couldnt get there flowers picked in time, also the place stunk through cabages being left to rot in the ground.

The farmers got wise and built small camps for the polish and brought them over, they pay them about £1.00 over minimum wage.

[D woods]

If their is a lot of them it might be worth giving one a try.

[trevor perry]

we employ two portugese a father and his son they dont do the window cleaning but are employed on one site doing pressure washing their english is limited but enough to get by , they are both extremely good workers and eager to learn we didnt employ them for cheap labour they are on the same wages as our other staff doing the same job.
  i think it would be harder to employ them window cleaning not that they couldnt do the job rather the working on different sites could cause comunication problems when dealing with office staff and the public etc