Mason Valley Janitorial

06/03/2024

Now everyone knows why he no longer works for us.

Over $100,000 of property was stolen or destroyed.

05/30/2024

With Quickbooks increasing their price from 400 to 1800 per year and informing us that we will be required to do Quickbooks online from now on, we have decided to go a different route. We will not put our customers information on the internet (Quickbooks cloud) only to be hacked and taken advantage of. As a customer your information will be kept secure with our company and will never be put on the internet.

03/18/2024

This is a public service message to inform the public that effective March 16th 2024 Eddie Salazar is no longer employed by Mason Valley Janitorial

01/10/2024

Mason Valley Janitorial would like to inform Yerington that we will be providing residential driveway snow removal this year.
For service call 7755602052.

01/10/2024

Here's another addition to our plow truck fleet. A 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD. We put a Boss straight blade on the front and a Boss 180z back drag plow on the back.

I thought I would also show you what goes on and into our trucks as well. We had D and M Repair install our lights, backup alarm and the interior accessories.

We have a vehicle specific center console with a radio, light bar controller, auxiliary lighting switches, air horn button, traffic advisor controller, and a hand held radio for when we have to get out of our trucks.

The microphones are for the radio and PA system and the two large controllers are for the front and back plow.
On the windshield we have a continuous recording dash camera and on the dash we have a monitor for the rear camera system that allows me to see how close I'm getting to curbs, buildings, and cars while backing up using the back drag plow and it records as well.

We installed a laptop mount and a laptop. The laptop allows me to record jobs that have been done as we are finishing them, look at Google earth to check out parking lots that we don't have contracts for when asked to plow them to see if there are any areas that could damage the plow or trucks, and to look at the weather radar before heading out of town to plow silver springs, Fernley and Fallon.

We're having Kacy at Studio 33 do our graphics and hopefully will have them on soon.

Everything we do on our trucks is for safety. The safety of the public, their property and our hard working plow truck drivers.

04/05/2023

Hi friends,
I just wanted to give you another update on our auto detailing.

Today we took possession of our new all in one detail machine. It does upholstery cleaning, produces steam, and blows air to blow dry your vehicles or to get into tight crevicesin you console or dash.

We are in the process of remodeling the interior of our shop getting it ready to provide you with the best detailing service possible. Our shop is also equipped with a state of the art alarm system that has multiple cameras inside as well as one on the outside and is monitored by an alarm company as well as the app on my phone.

Eddie and Travis will be flying out to Florida for their five day, thirtyseven hours of training and certification for auto detailing on April 17th through the 21st.

We are shooting for the twenty fourth of April to be open for business.

03/03/2023

We're excited to announce that starting April 1st we will be adding auto detailing to our services. Not just wash and wax. We will be using ceramic coatings that can last up to 10 years. We can ceramic your wheels to protect them up to four years
and we have a tire dressing that will last an entire year without coming off.
We are also going to be adding additional services in April as well.

10/12/2022

This year we've added some more safety for our employees. These signs will be at busy entrances along with our traffic control vehicle. Please drive slow when we are busy plowing lots to keep you safe.

07/17/2022

This hasn't been a good month. We had the issue with the oil filter and drain plug due to poor workmanship, which we are grateful D&M Repair fixed.
We took our ex county car we purchased at auction to the local detailer to have him remove the decals.
He did the passenger side and the rear of the car with no issues. However, he butchered the driver's side. His machine gouged the paint in several spots. When I asked him about it he said there's nothing he can do as the graphics were hard to get off. He seemed eager to get paid, yet not eager to fix his mistakes, in fact he never offered to fix it. Thankfully Valley Collision will fix this for us.
I supported the local detailer but no more. I've always ran our business on going above and beyond if there were any customer concerns, unfortunately not every business has etics.
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. See for yourself.

01/07/2022

Being in business can be tough. One of our biggest challenges has been employees. It seems like many you hire these days don't really want to work or they have no work ethic at all.

Examples are of the past two years of employees that we've had. We've delt with no call no show, employee demanding that we pay his girlfriend the same pay rate as him yet she was only brought on to clean a house now and then if one came up and yet he took it upon himself to take her with him when cleaning and charge us for her time that was not authorized.
Same person had a problem with taking instruction from a woman. (My wife)
Weve had employees standing around with hands in pockets while you're doing the work and not asking what can I do to help, and after telling them what to do they get that look on their face like you're asking the impossible, yet you are doing it.

Had a manager that we caught telling employees to just sit in the parkinglot and count time as they finished cleaning early and rack up time.

Hired a lady that had nothing but drama in her life from no call no show to calling at 11pm saying she can't work as husband is incarcerated (in jail) and we had to drive 45 minutes to our contracted daily cleaning account, spend 4 hours cleaning it, and drive back, yet she was scheduled to be there at 6pm. She could have called us and let us know at 6pm instead of 11pm but no, that would be to easy. She was fired and of course her getting fired and all the drama in her life is our fault.

Durring the begining of the pandemic we hired a lady that turned out to be a huge mistake. She stole the only thermometer (digital) from one of our accounts and various other nefariousthings at other accounts. We replaced the (hard to find and expensive) thermometer and canned her, but the law is so messed up the DA wouldn't prosecute her.

We hired a guy that whined that he needs help cleaning so we hired his girlfriend to help him as he admitted he's not the best cleaner nor good at dusting. (Why would you take a job cleaning and admit after you're hired that you're not good at it?) Anyway we hired her and after telling her 5 times she wasn't cleaning the bathrooms right and even retraining her, she still couldnt do it right. Then he gets upset as we took the account away from them and they quit. What am I supposed to do, keep you employed so I can loose accounts? I don't think so.
These instances are not even scratching the surface of what we've had to deal with concerning employees and their bad attitudes.

These same people run around town bad mouthing us yet if you watch them, they can't hold down a job anywhere. I should have know better than hire them as they bad mouthed their previous employers to us as well. (Lesson learned)

Am I wrong as a business man to expect who we hire to do the job they are paid to do? Is it too much to ask that they be honest, not steal, show up when scheduled, not bring your family or your family drama to work with you, and to take instructions from my wife who owns half the company?

I know we're not alone as I've talked to several businesses and they all say the same thing.
1. No one wants to work
2. They want a check but not have to earn it
3. They just don't care as they have no work ethic
4. They act immature and can't handle responsibility or accountability.

Fortunately we have hired an awesome guy that shows up on time, does his job and has never had a customer complaint. Oh yeah and to you complainers that are bad mouthing us to him, he's telling us what you are saying.

05/11/2021

Thank you for your interest in the job we posted. We needed someone right away and we interviewed today and hired a gentleman today who called to inquire.
Thank you again.