Question?

December 1, 2007

One of my employes ask me last nite If I would cut him some window film for his side job atfter work hours just wondering should I :rollin I think if I were to do this for him I might open up a can of worms? :rollin

December 1, 2007

Happy employees stick around.

December 1, 2007

Be careful instead of booking jobs for you he may start booking them for himself. I would lay down some ground rules for that.

mjs · December 1, 2007

It's up to you what your policy on that will be... but I'd at least give him credit for being honest and asking, rather than just stealing it.

Just be nice to him, because once he's to the point where he's buy a few rolls per day from you, he might need help and offer you a job. :rollin

big money · December 1, 2007

Thats a tuff question, with many different outcomes.

One is you could sell him some, at a profit you see fit. This way maybe he will keep coming back to you for film. Then you can monitor how many jobs he's doing on the side. On the other hand, he may not come back to you and start cutting off pieces he's needs when your not looking.

This is why I dont have employees, I haven't found anyone trust worthy enough to turn loose. If he is getting side work, how is he getting this work :rollin he should eventually run out of family and friends, so are any new customers from your shop :rollin

I have worked else where doing other jobs, and there are always people coming up to you and asking if you could come do that job on the side, because they are too cheap to pay what the business wants.

I guess you need to ask yourself, how much do you trust the employee not to steal, either film, or customers, after all, we all have at one time or another, trained our competition :poke

VWaholic · December 1, 2007

I can't tell you what to do but we don't allow side work here. It's just not good business. There's just so many problems you can run into with that. Maybe he'll get a big enough customer base (maybe some customers that would or should have been yours.) and go and open his own shop. He shouldn't be doing that while you are paying him to work for you. Did he say whether it's a family member or close friend. I've always let our employees do those type of cars at the shop for almost nothing. :rollin

A good employee should help the company grow by referring cars to the shop and tinting cars in his own garage doesn't do it. Just my :poke

I could go on and on about this. But I wont. :rollin

kats2112 · December 2, 2007

OK! Here we go. A touchy subject. Did you teach this guy everything he knows about

tint? Does he have friends and family? Does he make too much to benefit from an extra

Benjy once in a while? Would you like to know how much he really does on the side?

With some ground rules, it can be tolerated and help keep a good tinter there longer.

TINTERS TINT CARS! When we're in a bind and need some quick extra cash, we can

score a side job easily. Just get it honestly (still- easily).

I've been on both sides of the desk, and my opinion has never changed. :cold

TINTZEUS · December 2, 2007

One of my employes ask me last nite If I would cut him some window film for his side job atfter work hours just wondering should I I think if I were to do this for him I might open up a can of worms?

Sell it to him...with an up charge...take it out of his pay.......... :cold

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tint123 · December 2, 2007

Very difficult dilemna here. He coulda told one of your Customers that any friends or family they have he will do their cars for a big savings off the price you charge, using the same film you use.

I don't have any employees, but don't know I would allow any side work, at least not with my film.

I wonder if Flat Rock Stan might pop in here with his thoughts ?

tint45 · December 2, 2007

Man, I think you hit one of the biggest tough ones out there for this trade. The first thing you have to consider is that you're asking a bunch of people, many of whom used to work for another and now are out on their own, what their opinions are with respect to how they operated before they seperated.

The truth of the matter is that most every good installer that any company has employed knows that he(she)'s good and has thought to themselves at some point that they could compete with you. Once again, that's where you'll find some of the members on this board to have gained their success.

Seems to me that you should credit your employee's honest request as just that and hope that he remains an employee and not your future competition. :cold