Your First Employee

[SuperiorAutoLLC]

I was wondering, when you guys hired your first employee/worker/helper/assistant, how did you divide things up when working on a vehicle?

Who did what?

[ziggo99]

Since I was that first employee, I think I can answer this one fairly well...

It's a tag team. I'll start on wheels and tires, he'll start washing. I'll start waxing and he'll start on the driver side of the interior. When I'm done waxing, I start on the passenger side and we move around until it's all done. When one of us will start dressing the interior while the other dresses the exterior trim, then wipes the wheels down. Then one starts cleaning the windows while the other takes the wax off.

It started off as going through a basic list, but being able to ask "Ok, what's next?" and getting pointed in the right direction. After some time on the job, you being to work off each other, sensing where the other is about to go. Depending on the day, we may not speak more than a handful of works to each other, because we're to the point where we know what the other person is going to do.