Car window washers

**Mom** · 8th May 2015, 08:08

We saw the first one of these we have come across yesterday as we left Whangarei heading home. Waved him no, and he left us alone. All good.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11445063

"He said the income was not great, and he would take any job paying at least $23 an hour, but it was enough to put food on the table."

$23 an hour is pretty good money for unskilled work, given the minimum wage is $14.75 per hour.

Wonder if he pays tax?

**Akzle** · 8th May 2015, 09:05

ahh. Threads of irrelevancy.

A little disappointed you didnt stop in for a cuppa and a stabbing, though.

Knew a guy who took home a couple hundy in a day doing it, consistently.

**nodrog:Me** · 8th May 2015, 09:12

Originally Posted by Akzle

ahh. Threads of irrelevancy.

A little disappointed you didnt stop in for a cuppa and a stabbing, though.

Knew a guy who took home a couple hundy in a day doing it, consistently.

Whatever, he would have taken it straight to his dealers house instead of home.

Its all good, I feed his kids at school.

**Mom** · 8th May 2015, 09:14

Originally Posted by Akzle

A little disappointed you didnt stop in for a cuppa and a stabbing, though.

There is always next time sweetie. Just a tad occupied working and contributing to the tax fund you so freely draw from

**oldrider** · 8th May 2015, 09:59

I got attacked by an angry window washer the other day - in Otematata for goodness sake!

I was trying to read my paper and she was getting in the way making shadows that made reading difficult!

**Akzle** · 8th May 2015, 10:13

Originally Posted by nodrog

Whatever, he would have taken it straight to his dealers house instead of home.

Its all good, I feed his kids at school.

yeah. there was quite a bit of that.

still. pretty good money, work outdoors and get a tan and smoke weed all day, really, what more to life??

**Akzle** · 8th May 2015, 10:14

Originally Posted by Mom

There is always next time sweetie. Just a tad occupied working and contributing to the tax fund you so freely draw from

good point. about time aunty winz bought me another motorbike i reckon. big gay al will be stoked, i'll be sure to put it on fuelly for him.

**Voltaire** · 8th May 2015, 12:07

Originally Posted by Mom

Wonder if he pays tax?

Yeah. IRD needs to clamp down on this as Google, Facebook and the others are far too hard as they are lawyered up

**Smifffy** · 8th May 2015, 14:25

The last window washer that wouldn't take no for an answer was pretty quick to leap out of the way when I nudged the car forward. He can't have had much weed at that stage.

I realised afterwards that I could have seriously hurt him and I felt bad. But not for long.

I think they've been by-lawed off that patch now.

**Reckless** · 8th May 2015, 15:16

MOM $23 bucks aint bad At least they are out there doing something for their $$$

On the other hand I never get mine done? I dont want the handwash they get outa the local public toilet and mix up spread all over my screen.

**Smifffy** · 8th May 2015, 15:44

Originally Posted by Reckless

MOM $23 bucks aint bad At least they are out there doing something for their $$$

On the other hand I never get mine done? I dont want the handwash they get outa the local public toilet and mix up spread all over my screen.

Yeah this. I wouldn't mind actually if they did a decent job, but it usually makes it worse. Even more annoying when you've just done it yourself at a "service" station.

**Ender EnZed** · 8th May 2015, 16:14

Originally Posted by Stuff

Window-washer Luke, 29, cleans car windscreens because he can't find another job to feed his three children.

He has worked the intersection of Great South Road and Cavendish Drive "most days" for eight years

He said he had a girl aged 6, a boy aged 4 and a 10-month-old baby daughter.

Checks out.

Originally Posted by Stuff

He was not on a benefit. "To get on a benefit you have to apply for about 20 jobs. They make it so difficult," he said.

20 job applications in 8 years sure is an outrageous expectation.

Originally Posted by Mom

Wonder if he pays tax?

I don't.

Originally Posted by Mom

$23 an hour is pretty good money for unskilled work

As an after tax/ untaxed rate it's well above average in plenty of industries. I doubt he's doing anything like 40 hours a week.

**Smifffy** · 8th May 2015, 16:50

Well, good on him I say. As I said earlier I'm not in the market for his skills and would be unlikely to use his service. As long as he isn't using stand-over tactics like some of them do, I kind of admire his entrepreneurial spirit, if he would rather do that than join the regular workforce I don't blame him.

**mossy1200** · 8th May 2015, 17:02

The grubby early 20s guys that do it near my place look like they smoke it straight after but at least there not steeling my stuff instead. They arnt pushy just wave them away and they move on to the next car.