Originally Posted by
TheMeanGreen
It`s not hack, but is it a waste of time? If a customer wanted their engine bay clean, they`d clean it or get it cleaned. I`m not saying don`t wipe up after yourself, keep doing that. If you spill a little oil, clean it up. If there are leaves everywhere and you need to clean them up to do your job, clean them up. Your time is money. If working flat rate or by the quoted job time, you are not getting paid to clean a customers engine bay, you are getting paid to fix the car and clean up after any mess YOU make, or if the repair calls for a cleaning of some sort. I would certainly add washer fluid vs wiping every thing off. I appreciate your work ethic and desire to leave things better than when you found them, but in the automotive industry especially, your time is money. Let`s take that 10min you spend cleaning up, we`ll call it ten minutes. Let`s say you clean three engine bays a week for a total time of 30 min, multiply 30 min by 48 weeks a year, divided by 60 min for an hour and we have 24 billable hours. You could potentially spend 24 billable hours a year doing free labor, that`s time you could be using to tend to your needs as a human, like going to the doctor, dentist, that`s money incase of an emergency, etc.
Please do not take this the wrong way, as we all (AF) like to leave things in better condition than when we found them, and I appreciate your desire. But with time being your most precious commodity and the fact that if a customer wanted to keep their engine bay clean, they would, is cleaning the engine bay really worth it?
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