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BenRG:
It's still early enough for me to think that Faye and Bubbles will run the repair shop alone. However, in the near future, they may find it necessary to get those with more experience (or skill) in certain areas to run certain aspects of the business to let them concentrate on repairs. Reply to this post to put up your suggestions for staff.

Just to start things off, I think that the initial jobs Faye and Bubbles will need to staff are:

* Booking appointments;
* Book-keeping.The latter is definitely a necessity. Even if they ask Punchbot to do most of the paperwork, they'll need someone to keep their local sales and purchase ledgers just so they can keep track of receipts and invoices for tax purposes. Something tells me that neither Faye nor Bubbles had the skill-set or temperament to handle that.

As for the booking job, once again it's something best handled by a dedicated person. Faye's... personality really isn't suited for it and every minute she's spending on admin stuff like that is a minute she's not spending on revenue-generating activities. As for Bubbles? Well, she could do it but I suspect that she might have issues with dealing with time-wasters who just need to reboot their limbic drivers.

May is a shoo-in for the book-keeper job, IMO. It's her original skill-set after all and I suspect that she'd dance a jig at getting out of retail. Would she be trustworthy? She doesn't want to go back to Robot Jail and that's all the motive she needs. The fact that the job might mean she gets to meet Hank the Dismemberer one day would be a big bonus for her! I can also imagine that she'd enjoy chasing down late payments.

I also wonder if we might see Sam ending up as Faye's apprentice/vocational trainee on some weekends. So long as proper safety measures and insurance are in place, I can't see anyone seriously objecting to a 14-year-old learning useful work skills.

Case:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 05 Apr 2017, 02:15 ---May is a shoo-in for the book-keeper job, IMO. It's her original skill-set after all and I suspect that she'd dance a jig at getting out of retail.

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It is?  :-o


--- Quote from: BenRG on 05 Apr 2017, 02:15 ---Would she be trustworthy?

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Something tells me that trust issues are non-issues when the boss' full name contains the words "autonomous combat droid".

Thrudd:
Well, having worked in small startups in the past, bookkeeping would be a part time job at best.
Faye and bubbles will have to acquire some decent record keeping skills and supplement with a college program for running a small business and find a mentor.
I think they may have a good one in Dora though finding someone with experience in the mechanical service industry could be of help as well when it comes to industry specific challenges. The mentoring programs I know of are small circles of established local entrepreneurs  Dora may or may not be a member of such a circle as yet.

As for the shop employee roster, a good template to use would be that for an auto-body shop.
If you look at any of the small rural operations, they are at most three people and one of those is an apprentice.

If they are looking to expand their client base outside of the word-of-mouth channels and walk-ins, they will need a salesperson of some sort. Someone with experience in the industry and willing to do commission work. Most likely retired or semiretired.

Pilchard123:

--- Quote from: Case on 05 Apr 2017, 04:55 ---It is?  :-o

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She was in a position to try to 'reroute 750 million dollars into [...] a secure Swiss bank account'. I don't think we know exactly what else she was doing at the time, but probably something involving money.

Zebediah:
All that means is that May had access to an insecure accounting system - or, more accurately, to what she thought was an insecure accounting system. That doesn't necessarily mean she was in accounting herself.

She may have had a job that had nothing to do with money and simply stumbled upon a back door that she thought was unguarded. Being May, she took the money and ran. Just not far enough.

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