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> It was much harder to spray apartment complexes with hundreds of units and treating for roaches in every single unit was prohibitively expensive (or my boss w
by LeafItAlone 3y ago
> It was much harder to spray apartment complexes with hundreds of units and treating for roaches in every single unit was prohibitively expensive (or my boss was a cheapskate, I don’t know)
I lived in an apartment with ~300 units and they sprayed in the units at least once a year. Not sure what they were spraying (they said it was pet safe).
But if you’re the exterminator, why would your boss being a cheapskate have to do with it? Wouldn’t they be the one being paid?
- roland35 3y agoI think he meant the landlord was being a cheapskate here
- wincy 3y agoYes, we’re being paid but also underbid to get the contract, and using more chemical than strictly necessary will cut into the profit for the job. So we mixed the chemicals the same, but wouldn’t spray growth regulator in every apartment (more expensive) and we wouldn’t put roach bait down in every unit only ones with roach issues and ones surrounding that one. You want to keep the bugs down but not totally eliminate them, otherwise why would they need you? My boss never said that explicitly but we’d just use the minimum chemical mixtures in our tanks unless we were treating some specific infestation. It wasn’t a scam exactly but it was definitely a “the squeaky wheel gets the grease” sort of thing. One person would pay $80 and get an outdoor treatment only. Another person would get a 2 hour intense complex spraying and attic dusting, extremely thorough, with follow up visits for the exact same price. Like any sort of service job, really.
- LeafItAlone 3y agoThat sounds like a very shady business…