-Smoking, Not on the job, never in someone's house. Kind of a moot point because I don't hire smokers.

-Cell phones, not during business hours, that's my time. Breaks are fine.

-Customer's phones, Not allowed, you are not even to ask the customer to use their phone

-Radios, you are in someone's home then respect it. Outside, OK if kept respectably quiet. Either way, I don't like it.

-Painter's white, White painter pants, always, you are a painter or learning to be one, make sure that you look like one.

-Time off without notice, if you take a day off unannounced, then as soon as you report back I will give you another day off as payback, no pay of course.

-Personal hygiene and clean clothes, just make it happen, kind of a moot point because I won't hire someone who is not a well kept individual

-Parking, don't park in the clients driveway

-Toilets, ask to use one, then use only that one and keep it immaculate.

-Client's refrigerators stay out; do not store your lunch in there, even if they are not home.

-Client's microwave, off limits

-Clean up the job everyday

I don't have a lot of rules but the ones I do have are iron clad. Don't do them and we never have to talk about rules, ever.