so we literally got a foot of snow yesterday. it was 65 last wednesday, and now it's like the middle of january.
there's a thaw coming on Wednesday through Friday. we're committed to about 20 gutter jobs that still haven't been done. I've already pushed all of monday and tuesday's jobs to friday, which was already booked solid. i'm thinking of offering my team a big bonus day if they work thanksgiving, just because it will be prime gutter cleaning weather, and we'll be able to get caught up. so two point one questions:
1. do you think it's a bad look to schedule work on thanksgiving, ie. customers will think i'm a crazy money grabbing jerk who forces his team to work a holiday?
2.0 we may have decent weather in december that will comfortably allow us to get caught up. so working on thanksgiving may not be necessary. but it's a bit of a gamble, because what if this week is the last significant thaw we get this winter?
2.1 if i pay time and a half plus a bonus for working an unscheduled holiday, that will eat into my margins pretty good. is it worth risking putting off the jobs and maybe not being able to do them till spring (bad look for realz) in order to maybe be able to do them on regular time in a couple of weeks and therefore preserve my margins, or would it be smarter to just get them done no matter what and eat the additional labor cost?
i'm curious what you guys would do.
there's a thaw coming on Wednesday through Friday. we're committed to about 20 gutter jobs that still haven't been done. I've already pushed all of monday and tuesday's jobs to friday, which was already booked solid. i'm thinking of offering my team a big bonus day if they work thanksgiving, just because it will be prime gutter cleaning weather, and we'll be able to get caught up. so two point one questions:
1. do you think it's a bad look to schedule work on thanksgiving, ie. customers will think i'm a crazy money grabbing jerk who forces his team to work a holiday?
2.0 we may have decent weather in december that will comfortably allow us to get caught up. so working on thanksgiving may not be necessary. but it's a bit of a gamble, because what if this week is the last significant thaw we get this winter?
2.1 if i pay time and a half plus a bonus for working an unscheduled holiday, that will eat into my margins pretty good. is it worth risking putting off the jobs and maybe not being able to do them till spring (bad look for realz) in order to maybe be able to do them on regular time in a couple of weeks and therefore preserve my margins, or would it be smarter to just get them done no matter what and eat the additional labor cost?
i'm curious what you guys would do.
from Window Cleaning Resource http://ift.tt/1X7JYEb
via IFTTT
No comments:
Post a Comment