Tales From Landscaping

He just couldn't understand that cutting grass is a one way journey

I told them, and told them and told them, it will look awful if we cut it now but they really wanted it done on Friday.

You have a weekly service, we always come on thursdays, pick up after your damn dog, its hard to get shit out of the tread on my work boots.

Just because it doesn't require a University degree doesn't mean you don't have to use your brain, avoid the metal pipes on people's lawns you moron. And you don't, you don't get paid.

To have clients, you need to maintain relationships, so you need to be sickeningly nice at all times. If your client wants to talk about his days as an insurance investigator, you smile and nod.

The cost is the cost lady, you don't get to decide what we deserve, especially after you already agreed to the price.

This would happen all the time, people just think we can fix everything and think that an extra 5 dollars meant we would do anything.

Because younger people typically handle their own yards, a huge part of the market is elderly people, which means you get calls like this, they forget they paid you, forget they even hired you. It's interesting to say the least.

Hey man, I told you you were wasting thousands of dollars, you said, and I quote "I think it'll be fine" this isn't my fault.

It wasn't all bad...

Rich clients are the best, they just want their property to look great all the time, and if it costs them 2000+ dollars a month, so be it.