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pipeous · 07.29.2008, 05:25 AM

oh I agree. I have a small business and I detail cars. the cutting corners and stupid mistakes I saw working at dealerships and such made me leave. I have to repair a guys black hummer soon. He took it to the dealership (big name place) to have it detailed. omg. the guy obviously tried to do the whole truck without cleaning his pad once. the swirls cover the whole thing and the owner won't even try taking it back to get fixed.

Now I have about 7 hrs of work to repair the damage from a guy too lazy to use the air to blow out his pad once every panel or so. ya that 30 seconds sure kills time on the job. you don't just have to use a spur. I bet 25-30% of my work is repairing damage caused by detail shops, usually black vehicles too. make sure you take all the polish off before letting it go in the sun people if you cut polish... wash it after a serious cut polish even before waxing if you have to (I use a water based cut polish ;) )... read, learn. hell there are free training videos out there on product use, or a good supplier like automagic will send a rep out to demo the products for you.

I also, until tonight, did some mobile security work. I've done it for many many companies over the years. I got injured a while back and needed something to make money while I rehabbed. 2 months of graveyards... yukk. I am too old for graveyards now. Last night, I am doing first patrol. I check the building and go in to sign the log. it's my first and last stop everyday. takes oh 7 mins to walk the perimeter and check things. it's the olympic committee building so pretty important. funny enough I found lights out in a bad place going to parking, and mentioned it. as I am signing the book, the guy starting after me drives up to the front door to come sign the book for his rounds.... well #1 he never even walked around the building so he's allready coming to falsify a statement, and he can see me and knows I do it then, and would rather just play stupid and get it done rather than oh maybe coming back (our office was in the same building)... it makes you wonder how many patrols guys like that do in the same fashion. it's not hard work, but there are so many people like that now. I remember it used to be a profession when I started, now 20+ yrs later, it's hard to get $3/hr more than I made then...

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pipeous 5th Scale Guy Offline Posts: 183 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Surrey, BC	07.29.2008, 05:25 AM oh I agree. I have a small business and I detail cars. the cutting corners and stupid mistakes I saw working at dealerships and such made me leave. I have to repair a guys black hummer soon. He took it to the dealership (big name place) to have it detailed. omg. the guy obviously tried to do the whole truck without cleaning his pad once. the swirls cover the whole thing and the owner won't even try taking it back to get fixed. Now I have about 7 hrs of work to repair the damage from a guy too lazy to use the air to blow out his pad once every panel or so. ya that 30 seconds sure kills time on the job. you don't just have to use a spur. I bet 25-30% of my work is repairing damage caused by detail shops, usually black vehicles too. make sure you take all the polish off before letting it go in the sun people if you cut polish... wash it after a serious cut polish even before waxing if you have to (I use a water based cut polish ;) )... read, learn. hell there are free training videos out there on product use, or a good supplier like automagic will send a rep out to demo the products for you. I also, until tonight, did some mobile security work. I've done it for many many companies over the years. I got injured a while back and needed something to make money while I rehabbed. 2 months of graveyards... yukk. I am too old for graveyards now. Last night, I am doing first patrol. I check the building and go in to sign the log. it's my first and last stop everyday. takes oh 7 mins to walk the perimeter and check things. it's the olympic committee building so pretty important. funny enough I found lights out in a bad place going to parking, and mentioned it. as I am signing the book, the guy starting after me drives up to the front door to come sign the book for his rounds.... well #1 he never even walked around the building so he's allready coming to falsify a statement, and he can see me and knows I do it then, and would rather just play stupid and get it done rather than oh maybe coming back (our office was in the same building)... it makes you wonder how many patrols guys like that do in the same fashion. it's not hard work, but there are so many people like that now. I remember it used to be a profession when I started, now 20+ yrs later, it's hard to get $3/hr more than I made then...