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.