OT: Lawn care: Do you pay when they don’t show up?

[sdrealtor]

How big is your large yard? i’m guessing its not a 1/2 acre like Ox’s.

[joec]

[quote=flu]My gardener rocks… If he gets rained out, he comes during the week and does a makeup….Then again, I did refer him to 4 other people….[/quote]

flu, can you pm me your gardener’s contact info assuming he’s still good?

Considering getting some help.

I’m cheap and don’t expect to be paid or pay if they don’t work. You can always make up a session since the rain here isn’t that bad generally.

[no_such_reality]

I’m curious, how many have verified if your lawn guys are legally employable?

[dumbrenter]

[quote=UCGal]My lawn guy sometimes skips a week… but I don’t complain because he’s free and lives here. He’s got two unpaid interns learning the business… they’ll probably get paid someday.

It helps that we’ve been moving more towards zero scaping… and the lawn is small and can be handled with a push reel (human powered) mower.[/quote]

Very funny. But he is not really free. He was complaining about you at the bar 🙂

[dumbrenter]

[quote=no_such_reality]I’m curious, how many have verified if your lawn guys are legally employable?[/quote]

I was betting this would be like a second or third response, but had to wait all the way into second page to see this.

[Hatfield]

My lawn guy comes every two weeks, and if it’s raining he’ll come back some other day. There have been a few times where he couldn’t make up the visit, and he didn’t charge me for it, which I think is reasonable. I can’t imagine paying a gardener for work they did not do, any more than I can imaging paying a dentist for a cavity he did not fill, or a mechanic for an oil change he did not perform.

[Coronita]

**Joec, I don’t use the lawn guy anymore… times are tough, so I decided to do my own lawn… So he got a pink slip. Sorry… Can’t really recommend anyone…

[quote=dumbrenter][quote=no_such_reality]I’m curious, how many have verified if your lawn guys are legally employable?[/quote]

I was betting this would be like a second or third response, but had to wait all the way into second page to see this.[/quote]

*DR:

I don’t know…You can ask the UC Regents, Cal State school board, all the community college administrators, and our legislators, and our supreme court… Because apparently they don’t care either… Afterall, they seem to think offering in-state tuition rates for undocumented students …(at the expense of CA taxpayers, I might add ) is ok and is a god given good thing…Otherwise it wouldn’t be an upheld law as AB 540….

http://www.dailycal.org/2011/06/06/supreme-court-upholds-in-state-tuition-for-undocumented-students/

So I guess that means it’s ok, since a state institution says it’s ok. And since apparently the rest of CA voted for Prop 30 to support these higher educational costs that now everyone else must bear, I guess that means it’s really ok for everyone else too!

So….Like I said before… Not my problem, and not my concern..

That’s a state and federal and local government problem…

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=no_such_reality]I’m curious, how many have verified if your lawn guys are legally employable?[/quote]

That’s none of your business, b/c you’re not employing them. They bring their own equipment, so they act as contractors. No need to issue W2s, etc.

[LuckyInOC]

[quote=flu]Technology is your friend Ox….

[/quote]

Ingenuity is the ‘mother’ of invention…
… laziness is its ‘father’ – me

Lucky In Oc

[UCGal]

[quote=dumbrenter][quote=UCGal]My lawn guy sometimes skips a week… but I don’t complain because he’s free and lives here. He’s got two unpaid interns learning the business… they’ll probably get paid someday.

It helps that we’ve been moving more towards zero scaping… and the lawn is small and can be handled with a push reel (human powered) mower.[/quote]

Very funny. But he is not really free. He was complaining about you at the bar :-)[/quote]
LOL. Too true.

[LuckyInOC]

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do thing. — Robert A. Heilein

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