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I have a landscape business and this same customer has always wanted me to come on Fridays, well I also do several adjacent neighbors at the same time. Most everyone wants their property serviced on fridays so it looks good for the weekend and I kind of think the neighbors like to have theirs done at the same time so everyones looks good etc, but I guess she's off on Thursdays and Fridays. idk. What I think is absolutely ridiculous is she wants me to talk to the neighbors to change to a different day of the week. The reason is she's tired of the noise. She was literally fixing to have a total meltdown on me over this. In fact, I think she did. This happened a while back where a neighbor complained about the same kind of the thing and I told the customer and I'm pretty sure the told his neighbor to take a hike lol because when I brought it up to him he goes wait a minute, he's telling MY guy what day he can come??? lol First world problems here....the part that upsets me is how the customer approached me on the subject all out of the blue saying if you show up one more day on this day I'm finding someone else, you need to talk to everyone and get them to have you come on wednesdays instead of Fridays. How do you approach the other customers without throwing her under the bus? I'm not good with subtly and in fact I think in this particular case it needs to be told how it is to the other customers so they understand the situation. There aren't many things that surprise me these days, but this one just blows my mind. The trivial things that people get bent out of shape about. I just hope I don't lose all these customers over this because they may not go along with it. They may just tell her to take a hike lol Honestly the bottom line is what your neighbor does is really none of your business. Why do people buy houses that are literally 8ft apart and then complain about what the neighbors do? My neighbors are like 1500ft down the road. They could be screaming at each other and it's barely audible let alone being able to understand what theyre saying lol It's possible i'm blowing this out of proportion, but honestly it would actually help me out in the end of I could do more earlier in the week so I don't get stuck working the weekend, so other than that customers poor approach, it would actually be a good thing if they changed days.
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pretty sure most companies work 6 days a week except Sunday in the summer. Suddenly she's a landscape expert.
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