Multiple years ago, I agreed to help my best buddy with her new office cleaning business.
There had been a giant complex of office buildings being built in our area.
They were asking for bids from people for general cleaning services. My best buddy was thinking it would be a breeze to clean offices. She had watched enough motion pictures as well as TV shows to actually understand that they vacuumed, cleaned windows, did general dusting, as well as emptied waste baskets. She wrote up a bid. She included cleaning materials, uniforms as well as the expense per employee. She was thinking roughly four cleaning people would be enough to clean thirty offices. I asked her about the equipment as well as cost of benefit packages as well as paying herself. She was entirely overwhelmed when she saw her bottom line for getting this single contract for her office cleaning business. She definitely needed more than four of each cleaning device so they didn’t need to be moved up and down floors. She gasped at the final line for a five-year contract for her office cleaning business. She was certain they would not cover her price. When they called her in for an interview, they said they didn’t want to provide a contract for five years. They didn’t want to be tied to an office cleaning contractor for so long, if they didn’t do the job. They also didn’t guess it would be fair if the office cleaning contractor were tied to them for a very long time, if they didn’t suppose the contractor was a good fit. We have now been working for this contractor for multiple years, as well as I have no intention of quitting the office cleaning business any time soon.