Cleaning Illegally

Our industry is rocked by scandals all the time. Janitors, custodians, housekeepers, maids caught stealing or some other criminal activity.

Another equally criminal activity is operating your business under the wire or radar. These are the business operators who aren't licensed, don't have insurance, pay their personnel cash, don't pay taxes on their income, don't withhold payroll taxes and don't pay workers compensation premiums. They are referred to as 'trunk slammers' in most areas. The carpetbaggers of this century.

These operations damage all of us because each claim, each incident results in higher premiums for us legal companies.

The truly outrageous and absolutely most heinous criminal activity is when self-anointed industry leaders, who run online groups or associations, actually try to down play the seriousness of being an illegal operation.

One of the moron's recently wrote: about being a trunkslammer.

That he felt there was nothing wrong with starting out as a trunkslammer and felt the label was degrading. Guess there are no ethic's in his world?

He cried like a baby when I identified him here, so at his request, I am altering this post to remove his name, his organizations name and the exact verbiage he used.

I can definitely state, without fear of recourse that this person is NOT associated with:

Global Cleaners Association or International Cleaners Association, they have ethics.



Back to my rant,

How can this unnamed moron possibly claim to support our industry, claim to want to advance it and then turn around and endorse illegal operations? If you are paying your bills, paying your taxes, paying your insurance--don't you want your competitors to be doing the same? Or do you enjoy losing customers to people like this?