Anybody work in a car dealers, washing cars ?? (vauxhall citroen)

[Prickle]

haii

Im looking into getting a part time job in January in a garage/car dealers i.e vauxhall, citroen etc, i was wondering Has anybody worked for them and whats the pay like, times and the strickness of the fellow staff/bosses, and also how long do you spend cleaning one car ??


Thanks :)

[bullit]

stack shelfs at aldi. £9 an hour

[Prickle]

Not really my thing tbh, i may have to consider that if car dealers fails :homme:

[Marky_C]

call centre work is they way forward lol

[Prickle]

call centre work is they way forward lol

Im not good with talking on phones lol :(

[Ben]

Excuses, excuses. Just get a job, any job lol and mod your car.

[VTEC-Saxo]

sounds like a plan mr john:P

[Prickle]

Excuses, excuses. Just get a job, any job lol and mod your car.

Thats the main reason for a job lol, so i can do a progress thread lol, im missing out on one :( i have so many plans for it, but little funds which have to stay in the bank :oops:

Any suggestions im off in 2mins :(

[AJ_SAXO]

haii

Im looking into getting a part time job in January in a garage/car dealers i.e vauxhall, citroen etc, i was wondering Has anybody worked for them and whats the pay like, times and the strickness of the fellow staff/bosses, and also how long do you spend cleaning one car ??


Thanks :)

not good in this current climate as my mate got laid off for not selling enough cars and nobody wants cars atm!!

[Marky_C]

neither am i but still i get payed £6.20 an hour plus bonuses for sittin on my arse all day

[Prickle]

Any other jobs i could try ??

please dont turn my thread into spam whilt im off


its serious! :y:

[S3xoSam]

Become a bus driver tbh.

You enjoy driving? Thats half the job done ;)

[666]

dont bother mate, i worked at suzuki for a wial, 6.50 an hour, treat you like shit and exspect to much of you.:n: i work in demolition now, 10 pound an hour driveing a van and brakeing everything:y:
a freind of mines on the same money and he works for a company doing junk removals give that a try:y:

[JC-Furio]

Good luck getting any kind of job atm, been searching for about 2 months and have got fucking nowhere lol.

If anything is offered to you, regardless of the pay, just take it until you find something else.

[Sophia_Bush]

Good luck getting any kind of job atm, been searching for about 2 months and have got fucking nowhere lol.

If anything is offered to you, regardless of the pay, just take it until you find something else.

man has point stacking shelves may be shit but its easy money end of day

[alex19]

The valeters at land rover are all russian etc lol :P

Strictness varies from place to place with every job I guess, pay is decentish I presume, nothing to brag about and you wouldn't be able to run a house on your own back.

Jobs a job at the end of the day.

[Viper]

i'll give you 20p to wash my car?

and if you're a good boy, i might even let you sit in it :panic:

[Prickle]

i'll give you 20p to wash my car?

and if you're a good boy, i might even let you sit in it :panic:

lol :D no ta

[saxyVTRsaxo]

I work in the motor industry and am incharge of making sure the cars are clean and displayed correctly and on time. Im employed by bmw & rolls Royce and have to chase up the work for our valeters. Its very hard work as they have on average 20 cars to clean a day, if not more.

[Darlo-paul]

i'll give you 20p to wash my car?

and if you're a good boy, i might even let you sit in it :panic:

Does that include a dental plan?

[Steve]

haii

Im looking into getting a part time job in January in a garage/car dealers i.e vauxhall, citroen etc, i was wondering Has anybody worked for them and whats the pay like, times and the strickness of the fellow staff/bosses, and also how long do you spend cleaning one car ??


Thanks :)

cant predict what your co workers are going to be like. :afro:

[danindarlo]

do wat i did ..
i worked for morrisons nightshift £7.42hr did it for a year lefted and joined the RAF as a MT Driver i can drive anythink and the raf payed for everythink .. so when i come out i hopefully shouldnt have a problem geting a driving job thry also paid for me to carry dangerous goods on the road all in all i think it cost them/taxpayer £8000 for my traning lol

[Viper]

Does that include a dental plan?

if you count a kick in the teeth as a dental plan, then yes

[Ocego_VTR]

You'll be lucky to get a job in a car dealers at this moment in time due to the current climate, best way is to apply to mcdonald's thats what i have done anyway.

[titchster]

Mate cleans cars for a dealer, apparently they're laying a few off just recently, so not good.


As mentioned before, stacking shelves, at night, if you go for a shop that shuts, no customers, can just get on with the job, and have a bit of a laugh if you get on with everyone. If you do go for one when the shop's shut though, it aint as easy as most think, ok, its not the hardest job in the world, far from it, but, you usually have to aim for an average of 60 cases an hour, which is get the case of stuff, find it on the shelf, decide if its going out, if it is, open it, get it out, break the box down, and move onto the next one, all within a minute, easy in some situations, a complete bastard in others.

(Think, 16 x 6 packs of crisps, and you can't decide if there's enough room on the shelf or not, bearing in mind you aren't supposed to only put half the box on...if you go for it, and they don't all go out, whaddya do? Hide some? Take em all back off? Clock's still ticking...)

[123-samsung123]

Dont get into the motor trade, its dead, and it crap, cleaning cars is crap! Get a decent trade behind you!!! But not the motor trade!

[aly888]

the valeters at my dealership arent employed by the dealership owners. We sub-contract (is that the right term?) all our car cleaning out to another company. Dont know what happens to them when we start using a different company!!
But like everyone else has said, dealerships are dead slow at the moment, especially car sales..all u would be doing is cleaning the same cars on the forecourt over and over again, de-icing them etc and then doing service washes on whatever may come through the workshop!! one plus side (that our last bunch used to do to us other employees) is that you can charge the technicians (and other menials like me who dont get company car) about £10-£15 to wash their cars and that goes straight into your pocket for doing something you do anyway!!

[Prickle]

But like everyone else has said, dealerships are dead slow at the moment, especially car sales..all u would be doing is cleaning the same cars on the forecourt over and over again, de-icing them etc and then doing service washes on whatever may come through the workshop!! one plus side (that our last bunch used to do to us other employees) is that you can charge the technicians (and other menials like me who dont get company car) about £10-£15 to wash their cars and that goes straight into your pocket for doing something you do anyway!!

See that doesnt bother me lol, its some money at the end of the day, i only get £10 ema a week :(

[bullit]

paperound? i used to make £20 from them

[Prickle]

paperound? i used to make £20 from them

paper round at 19 lol, could i use my car lol

[aly888]

paper round at 19 lol, could i use my car lol

lol...dont blame ya. I vowed I would never get a paper-round! but, desperate times call for desperate measures...haha

If you are happy with what being a valeter entails then go for it. Find out whether your local dealers employ the ppl themselves or whether they use a seperate company (like we do), in which case you would obviously have to apply directly to that company!!

Good luck :y:

[Prickle]

lol...dont blame ya. I vowed I would never get a paper-round! but, desperate times call for desperate measures...haha

If you are happy with what being a valeter entails then go for it. Find out whether your local dealers employ the ppl themselves or whether they use a seperate company (like we do), in which case you would obviously have to apply directly to that company!!

Good luck :y:

Thanks :) im going to try next week see if i can get a job (touch wood) its only so i can keep my car on the road and purchase a few things, im at college doing ict so il come out with a canny job, i just need money in the meanwhile, or no driving etc :(

[aly888]

im at college doing ict so il come out with a canny job(

good to see you have an optimistic outlook on life!! lol, only joking...but i have known a couple of ppl trained in IT who have struggled to find jobs!!

you should apply for a whole load of jobs (all sorts, not just dealership) all together (but remember to change your C.V each time you do to suit the position you are going for) and then if/when you get offers back you should have a few that you can think about instead of just getting one and thinking you have to take it coz you might not find something else...

[Prickle]

good to see you have an optimistic outlook on life!! lol, only joking...but i have known a couple of ppl trained in IT who have struggled to find jobs!!

you should apply for a whole load of jobs (all sorts, not just dealership) all together (but remember to change your C.V each time you do to suit the position you are going for) and then if/when you get offers back you should have a few that you can think about instead of just getting one and thinking you have to take it coz you might not find something else...

Yeah il have to do that :)