Wont work saturdays? wont take off shoes? SHAME ON YOU!!

[Mike Garrett RAA]

Work when you want to work....dress how you want to dress! Shoes? On or Off...it's your decision. Just don't cry about lost business. Someone pointed out...we are a service business, if you dont service the client someone else will.

As for me and my house, I choose not to work on Sundays. Otherwise, its fair game. Ask me to take my shoes off....I will. Ask me to wear a tie....I will not.

Thus sayth the old guy!

 

[TC]

Pat,

My wife worked in a hospital starting as a nurse and ending as a VP of operations. She got out 3 years ago when she was forced to fire highly educated and trained nurses and hire med-techs at a much lower rate. The insurance business and their lawyers have gutted the nursing and health care profession. Yes, the fees are high, but nurses and more recently Doctors are making less now than 10 years ago. Personally, I think they should be paid like ballplayers, the last thing I want when I'm on the operating table is an underpaid Doctor worrying about his mortgage payments.

Did 3 inspections last Saturday, 2 asked me to remove my shoes.

TC

 

[Farm Gal]

"If there is anyone anywhere in the world willing to do what you are doing for less money, your job is not secure"

So spake my highly placed silicon Valley whiz kid friend many years ago....

She took a 20% cut in pay this year, is faced with laying off many many competent people who have no place else to go, and is very grateful to have a job today, and is kind of wondering about tomorrow.

Independant isn't the worst way to starve...

Enron.

 

[Anonymous]

We are in a profession where fees have stagnated and/or decreased.

Pat,

Personally, my fees have stayed the same over the last few years but my costs have decreased. Advancements in technology have made it cheaper for me to get an appraisal completed and out the door.

Have you compared what it used to cost you to complete an appraisal to what it costs you now?

 

[Austin]

My wife is bug bait and uses bounce every night for her walk. We live on a 120 acre tract and she walks every night on our paved drive. Has bounce in her socks, hat, pockets, and rubbs her clothes with it before she starts. I smoke Madero 350 cigars and that works for me. Keeps the bugs away and the wife too. At my age they are both pest. Went down on the low ground tonight to check on the watermellons and the darn June flies nearly ate me up. They suck your blood and love to land on your scalp. Can't go outside without a hat.

 

[Blue1]

Well.........the loan industry is also a SEVICE business. When's the last time an LO called YOU on the weekend! And if they do, don't you consider them to be desperate!! C'mon now.... you KNOW you do! (consider them desperate if they call you on a weekend) Yet on Monday they ALL expect that you worked on THEIR job over the weekend. I agree with Mike (the "old guy") it's YOUR business when you do your business. Just don't "kvetch" about it when the business doesn't come your way. BTW if you refuse to remove your shoes and you don't work on the weekends and live in FAR Northern California, send all your "shoeless" and weekend work my way........Thanks

 

[Paulette in Texas]

Is there nothing the "client" cannot ask...i.e., demand that you do in order to suck up their business? Name one other service organization, professional anywhere that is expected to remove his shoes in the U.S. of A...not Japan, NOT some third world country but TEXAS, for goodness sakes. If the 3rd world here sucking it all up and expecting us to cowtow to THEIR 3rd world standards don't like it...then get out of DODGE.

We have more business than we can handle, but even if we didn't: "I DON'T DO BAREFOOT." It is the nicest way I can put it. And I don't have a problem saying it. They don't like it, try somebody desparate enough for the business. I have NEVER tracked mud nor any other KNOWN recognizable fiber into their homes. If their precious carpet can't handle clean sandals, then maybe it needs to be down graded in quality of construction. Have y'all ever noticed the very "ones" that want you to remove your shoes have carpet that at best is weary? It is not like it is high grade upgraded carpet. It is usually crap that they think is the be-all end-all and of course they want TOP DOLLAR for this mansion. NO, when it comes right down to it: This is the Texas. We don't live in their country...they are invited guests in ours. At least for the time being, it is English speaking and Texas. Those that can't adapt to OUR standards and our norm should find someplace else. And quicker is better than later. GEEZZZZZZZ...get a backbone. I think the next, and it is always females that asks me to remove my shoes in their precious property will be asked to produce an insurance waiver stating that should I fall, or in any way injure myself while doing that which is ALIEN TO MY CULTURE...THEY WILL BE FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS OF INCOME. Works for me just fine. Paulette in Tx
go w...
Rotts rule and Shih tzus fine.

 

[Mike Garrett RAA]

Dear Paulette....I love you like a sister...but if you come to my house you would be ask to remove your shoes. If you say no, you will still be invited in.

Our new carpet upgrade was substantial and my wife is a fanatic about keeping it clean. We have had 3 solid months of construction people going in and out fixing all the stuff that wasn't done right the first time. Everyone of them removes their shoes without us even asking... in fact, the builder requires it.

Of course, we ain't trailer trash...we live in a modular home! Nah, it isn't but I had some people just the other day who live in a modular on 35 acres ask me to remove my shoes so I wouldn't drag in the "horse pucky".

 

[Farm Gal]

My wife is bug bait and uses bounce every night for her walk.

Austin: what flavor does she use? I have unscented for my laundry but am willing to experiment with flavored if it keeps the bugs off...

darn June flies... ...suck your blood and love to land on your scalp. Can't go outside without a hat.

:lol: :lol: Rogaine might help!!!

Lee Ann - Happily married to a guy who has had a shiney pate for the last 30 years...

 

[Austin]

Lee Ann: Actually, I have a full head of hair. These June flies go for fur or hairy areas. It if doesn't have hair on it they are not interested. Worse crop of these flies this year I have ever seen. They love women because they have more hair on their head. I guess they figure, the more hair the more blood feeding the hair. Chiggers is another local pest. They are expert at finding very personal body parts. They dig into the skin and itch for days on end.