husband/wife teams?

[gold star wsr]

Working together is fine if you are compatable and have clearly defined boundaries. My hubby has decided to work with me after he retires at the end of the summer. The problem with that is that I am not sure I want to have him 'helping' me. (I only mentioned it once, never really expecting him to take me up on it). We have very different ideas about what is the right and good way to do business, and what is unacceptable, and I expect this to be a source of discord between us. He also tends to forget that it is my business, and tries to make decisions without consulting me first. I want to line him up with fleet work to keep him out of my hair

[DaveC]

Gold Star,

I can certainly appreciate your posistion. My first wife and I could NOT work together, I even had to ban her from my restaurant.

My present wife is a real hoot:) When anybody asks her what her hubby does for a living, she responds by saying that I do something with the Internet and that I do something with windshields;)

Fortunately, with WSR, I would guess that a couple could simply "divide and conquer!" No need to ride together and have two people working on the same repair when both could take off in a different direction and do twice the amount of repairs;)

[scratchy]

Exactly what I was thinking. Divide and conquer, especially on Saturdays. The enemy as I see it is not the repairs but the window of time one has to land the jobs. Two people in two locations in touch with each other by cell phone could easily double a days take. She could just do easy chips through the day and send the tough ones to me at my location. I would even think a wife could help going door to door landing jobs and just call in the repair to me when she gets a hit.

[chips1144]

Scratchy, My best advice is to ask your wife what she would like to do, assume NOTHING, men and women think very differently, you might wanna operate seperatly and she might want to work with you, So pose all the options and ask her what she would really like to do.
Good Luck

[CPR]

I took my wife with me one day, made 250.00, she watched, when we got home I was broke and my girls made it to the mall in record time {|= . Welcome aboard Chips 1144, I remember you from Mr Ed's SSR boards.

[chips1144]

Thanks for that CPR, I used post on this board when it started back in 2002, Im not a glass repair guy on a regular basis, I will be tomorrow, I got a chip on my workvan today, Huhhhhhh

I still hang out on Eds board everyday...