ditchdr
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Ok so I started up a lawn care service a week or 2 ago. Things are going well, I am getting contracts left and right, and being asked to do extra stuff. So much that I had to sub out a leaf removal job. Or at least I tried.
Ok this back yard is maybe 40ft by 60 at the most, it has a mix of pine straw and oak leaves in it. I bid the leaf job for 60.00 or 2 hours labor, cause it should take no more then that to get it done. Heck I did one 3 times it size in 4 hours on Saturday.
First guy I asked to do it, was a friend of mine. I told him 50.00 dollars to rake up and bag just the back yard. And I am supplying the bags.. 4 hours into it he tells me he cant do it.. Mt first thought it wow 4 hours he must be out there with a pocket comb or something. So I go by there any maybe 1/3 of it is done.. Ok fine here is 17 dollars ( 1/3 of 50) but wait you owe me 10 for letting you use my mower and trimmer to mow your buddies yard that you got paid for.. so here is 7 bucks, have a nice day, now be gone before I drop a house on you..
Next guy, hes 20 years old, only works part time, and is not in school. He is into fixing up his little honda civic.. I called him he said he would do it. No problem be at my house by 8 and just take my truck over there. At 830 he calls me and says he got called into work.. Um yeah BS. he got 4 bags of leaves picked up. so I am gonna give him 10 bucks..
I learned a lesson today. America is the way it is due to people being lazy. I would have been out there doing the leaf job my self, but I had other jobs to get done. I thought i was doing a good thing by offering someone a job, be it a temp job, its still money, TAX FREE money at that.. So tomorrow while it is pouring down rain and since I have to move my Wednesday clients to Friday I will be out raking leaves.. It would have been easier to just hire one of them guys standing in front of Home Depot and be done with it.
Ok this back yard is maybe 40ft by 60 at the most, it has a mix of pine straw and oak leaves in it. I bid the leaf job for 60.00 or 2 hours labor, cause it should take no more then that to get it done. Heck I did one 3 times it size in 4 hours on Saturday.
First guy I asked to do it, was a friend of mine. I told him 50.00 dollars to rake up and bag just the back yard. And I am supplying the bags.. 4 hours into it he tells me he cant do it.. Mt first thought it wow 4 hours he must be out there with a pocket comb or something. So I go by there any maybe 1/3 of it is done.. Ok fine here is 17 dollars ( 1/3 of 50) but wait you owe me 10 for letting you use my mower and trimmer to mow your buddies yard that you got paid for.. so here is 7 bucks, have a nice day, now be gone before I drop a house on you..
Next guy, hes 20 years old, only works part time, and is not in school. He is into fixing up his little honda civic.. I called him he said he would do it. No problem be at my house by 8 and just take my truck over there. At 830 he calls me and says he got called into work.. Um yeah BS. he got 4 bags of leaves picked up. so I am gonna give him 10 bucks..
I learned a lesson today. America is the way it is due to people being lazy. I would have been out there doing the leaf job my self, but I had other jobs to get done. I thought i was doing a good thing by offering someone a job, be it a temp job, its still money, TAX FREE money at that.. So tomorrow while it is pouring down rain and since I have to move my Wednesday clients to Friday I will be out raking leaves.. It would have been easier to just hire one of them guys standing in front of Home Depot and be done with it.
