Nick Campanale
New member
Hey guy's, I have tremendous respect for some of the veteran pro's on this board. My question is, some of these BOD that were picked to lead the way are fairly new to the game, and some dont even do this full time.
How is it that the guy's that have been at this for over 10 years + dont get elected to lead an industry of mostly newbies? Mobile Contract Cleaning in itself is a fairly new profession maybe 15 or 20 years old at the most. Not only that but there are guy's on the Board that have never been out of their own city and have no clue as to the logistics involved with this type of work.
I am not saying that state to state is the only type of cleaning that you guy's are involved in but when you start getting hooked up with companies that are looking for people to do national accounts, most contractors on these boards dont do that type of service. The thing that I feel will suffer here is that if a contractor has been doing buisness with a company for a long time, and he has pricing in with them that actually makes him money, then along comes this national big guy and say's I will clean them all.
Then they contact the Uamcc and cut a deal with the BOD to cover this work for them at their price, which normally is well below what most guys are charging, how is this helping the industry? I personally think that all this free info and sharing amongst all the boards has lead to a price decline. Just the lurkers alone that come thru these boards that pick up trade secrets and know how that we veterans have busted our ass to fiqure out the hard way.
This is not directed to no one in particular I am just trying to see how letting large companies in and setting the pricing on national accounts is ever going to be a good thing. They should be able to come in to a BB and search for a qualified contractor in an area that they need work done and ask for a bid for service, not come in and tell us what they will pay us to do a job that is already price fixed.
Newbies will always be drawn into this because $25.00 an hour sounds like good money, but add in the logistics to cleaning multiple locations and that money is starting to look like minimum wages. just my 2cents
How is it that the guy's that have been at this for over 10 years + dont get elected to lead an industry of mostly newbies? Mobile Contract Cleaning in itself is a fairly new profession maybe 15 or 20 years old at the most. Not only that but there are guy's on the Board that have never been out of their own city and have no clue as to the logistics involved with this type of work.
I am not saying that state to state is the only type of cleaning that you guy's are involved in but when you start getting hooked up with companies that are looking for people to do national accounts, most contractors on these boards dont do that type of service. The thing that I feel will suffer here is that if a contractor has been doing buisness with a company for a long time, and he has pricing in with them that actually makes him money, then along comes this national big guy and say's I will clean them all.
Then they contact the Uamcc and cut a deal with the BOD to cover this work for them at their price, which normally is well below what most guys are charging, how is this helping the industry? I personally think that all this free info and sharing amongst all the boards has lead to a price decline. Just the lurkers alone that come thru these boards that pick up trade secrets and know how that we veterans have busted our ass to fiqure out the hard way.
This is not directed to no one in particular I am just trying to see how letting large companies in and setting the pricing on national accounts is ever going to be a good thing. They should be able to come in to a BB and search for a qualified contractor in an area that they need work done and ask for a bid for service, not come in and tell us what they will pay us to do a job that is already price fixed.
Newbies will always be drawn into this because $25.00 an hour sounds like good money, but add in the logistics to cleaning multiple locations and that money is starting to look like minimum wages. just my 2cents