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Old 09-03-2003, 05:28 PM
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I will admit that when I started out I thought I was going to take over the world but quickly realized that employees are my greatest weakness. However, after some time at this and other sites and over ten years of experience my style of 'leadership' is changing.
The only reason for this is due to pay scale, if you where able to pay your people a higher pay rate you would attract a better class worker, but in order to do this you really need to raise your prices or find a way to increase production, start a second or third crew and what to manage not do the labor your self.

Our trade should be paid a livable wage, I would like to see all landscape labors making 35K and up a year. Take some time an figure out what your customers should be paying for the work we do...........
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