My family is pretty much "black listed" from all land scaping companies!!!?

[carpetrug01]

We have this section of our yard that is a hill slope, and it is horrible and ugly looking!! its all weedy and overgrown, and ugly. So, all summer we have been trying to get landscaping companies to do it, but none of them will stay the whole day!!!

This is because my mother litterally stands out on the deck watching them work and ordering them around the whole time. Like the entire time she will be standing there, or sitting in a lawn chair with lemmonade or something yelling at them and telling them what to do. They ALL quit before the end of the day, now there is no company who will ever come and fix the hill from hell!!Its like we are black listed.

I dont want to do it WHO CAN OMGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
Well i mean she is paying them to do work.. they need to make their livings as long as she is giving them money she should be able to tell them how to do the work. its like important especally since that part of the yard is not upkept...

Should we have a lawyer present to work out a contract saying that no matter what they finish the job without quitting or else they pay a 58 million dollar settlement fee? like that to me sounds reasonable.. And i have to admit im blameing too much on my mother....... its also me and my sister....in fact...i left this out. i must be honest with you all........Me my mom and my sister all sit out on our deck while they work, and we tell them what to do.


And, i must say that i'm not always nice to workers who work on our house............one time there was people in our house putting in new carpets......and...well my sister and i..put dishwasher soap in their coffies. And they found out.....when they told my mom, she laughed in their face..so yea.
well its actually true...workers who work at our house are lesser beings. i mean look at my family, we have more income per month than what any land scaper has in 10 years... We can just do whatever we want because we have so much..... like our possibilities are like endless... its not our fault that those workers are jealous of us...if we are giveing them money then they have no excuse to not do what we say.

And seriously...please tell me why in the whole entire existing world why we would EVER give workers lemmonaid???? I can't even see that as coming across any of our minds...Thats just absolutely Unherd of!!!! i can't believe that anyone would ever even suggest that to me, thats just unbareable.

[college kid]

You guys sound like aristocrats who look down upon tradesmen as some stupid subhuman like form. Most have a great deal of knowledge and skill. You need to change your attitude and let them do what you are paying them to do. And if you put something in my drink I would have sued you. Good luck at finding an idiot that will work under the conditions you set.

[diggin_thedirt]

DON,T GO OUT OF THE HOUSE YOUR LILLY WHITE A>> MIGHT GET TANNED or should have since birth !

[Madame M]

Well, it sounds like your mom is going to have to decide: does she want to yell out advice all day, or does she want the landscaping done? It's a free country, and people are allowed to not take her money and leave a job.

You should be thankful she doesn't have you guys out there doing the work.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who treat the help like s***. They deserve to do their own dirty work and see how they like it.

[DiGiTaLiS]

get your mum to do the work

sounds like shes a lazy biatch if she can afford to sit on a chair with a glass of lemonade and watch people work.

otherwise tell her to shut up and go back inside, i would quit too if she was ordering me around

[need to know]

It does sound like you are "black listed", so it looks like you will have to do the work yourselves. Let me ask you though, if you know you are all so bossy when overseeing, why don't you change your behavior? No job will ever be done right or even finished for you otherwise.
My husband is a A/C man and he has had several people just like you all. He says it makes his job harder to finish at a reasonable time as the person(s) keep "reminding " him how to do his job. Unfortunately, they don't know the exact steps and think he is doing it wrong. He then has to show a diagram, if possible, to prove his work. This takes even longer. Some things have no diagram, it is learned trough school and therefor he cannot show why things are done a certain way.
People need to understand, no matter what the job, (if they are reputable) the job will be done properly and on a reasonable time table. My husband understands that some people are fearful of being "ripped off" and so he is courteous and explains EVERYTHING to the customer. But again this takes extra time, and they have to pay him by the hour. They sometimes pay more this way. Who wants to pay even more? Next time, maybe you could try to stop the badgering and bossing. You might be surprised at how well the job goes and how fast! Good luck!!

[tearsofthemoon00]

Get bids from a professional company and do not pay until it is finished.

[whataboutme]

LOL!!!!! See if your Mom will have a retaining wall built. It will Cost some big money.but you maybe able to handle the hill better.Or just see about teariest. Plant flowers and that way it won't be a weed patch.

[jay f]

And now you will never get anyone from the internet to do the work either. Bummer

[old man gooser]

send momma on a trip to the bermuda triangle or Aruba a favorite american destination!
then get some mexicans in there to do the job.