Ive been in your shoes more times than I care to remember and it took these forums to find out that the fault was with me. I was hiring jack legs within a few minutes on the phone with them....just because I believed there talk. I always ran ads for employment when I needed a person asap, I was so busy I needed help immediately and hired the first person who said they could paint. I did this for years and found the worst painters imaginable, some of which I didn’t fire because I needed the minimal amount of help they produced. This led to tons of stress, loss of work, and me thinking negatively about the whole work force in general. Thanks to a few on this forum I realized it was clearly my fault for allowing this. I now run employment ads full time, even when not looking for employees. I am also developing a strict interviewing process, and as Dave said I am also on the look out for clean cut painters (pun intended) in paint stores or on other job sites.
Don’t get me wrong… my employee’s are no dream come true, they are definitely better than any ive had before, but my way of approaching this is still new to me and work in progress.
The moral of my story is stay positive, approach your problem from a different angle, and realize that good people are out there even if they have never held a brush.
It works, it may take time…..but it works!
Don’t get me wrong… my employee’s are no dream come true, they are definitely better than any ive had before, but my way of approaching this is still new to me and work in progress.
The moral of my story is stay positive, approach your problem from a different angle, and realize that good people are out there even if they have never held a brush.
It works, it may take time…..but it works!
