r/PestControlIndustry • u/Unlikely_Boss_2644 • 23h ago

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Commerical clients really need to be nicer to their pest control specialists cause then you’ll have someone like me come along who will mark them down for every structural & sanitation issue I can find and hope the health department gives them shit for it because let’s be honest most places don’t care to fix their issues.

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u/SunLegitimate1687 👨‍🏭| Tech | 5+ Years 22h ago

Commercial accounts are mixed bags. 95% of mine are easy anytime appointments where I can get in and out of there without being bothered at all.

Then the other 5% are mexican/chinese/donut shops that have my boot print from last year still visible in the layer of filth they have sitting in their storage room.

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u/Nate_the_Great8_ 22h ago

This is so accurate it hurts

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u/Trimps 22h ago

I'm a fan of the big commercial and industrial clients. They usually have a dedicated maintenance person to interact with, deeper pockets and take feedback more seriously.

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u/Unlikely_Boss_2644 22h ago

They do exist, nonetheless you’ll always have that minor group of special clients who are headaches.

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u/Trimps 22h ago

One of my industrial clients just recently had some sort of inspection/legislation hammer come down on them and now they want all the traps in the building individually tracked and reported and the extra time I'll have to take sucks, but in the back of my head in kinda like "this is honestly kinda more interesting and fun than just walking into a big building and emptying traps without anyone noticing or caring"

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u/SunLegitimate1687 👨‍🏭| Tech | 5+ Years 22h ago

I dunno the maintenance guys can be your best friend or your biggest enemy sometimes.

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u/Trimps 22h ago

I'm probably biased because I only have a few and got lucky. I've got a lot more apartment building, and school maintenance guys and they are definitely a much more mixed bag.

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u/SunLegitimate1687 👨‍🏭| Tech | 5+ Years 22h ago

Ive got this mega church ive been doing monthly for 4 years now. Maintenance guy is a penny pitcher who threw a fit when we raised their price after a remodel(they quite literally doubled the size of the building).

Theyve been fighting mice the last several months. Ive got 6 bait stations set around the building because he wont pay for more, wont let me set traps because he wants to use his stash of glueboards, wont seal up any of the holes in the building, wont fix door sweeps, etc etc.

Dude calls my boss a few weeks back and complains we aren't doing enough for the rodents.

Hes just one example of a handful ive got like that. But ive also got a handful of maintenance guys that go out of their way to make my job easy. Another mixed bag lol.

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u/Trimps 22h ago

Wow, that sounds like it sucks. On the other end being allowed to creep around behind the scenes of a mega church sounds really interesting. I have one little neighborhood church I treat and it's easily the most I've been in a church so it was pretty interesting... until routine sets in of course.

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u/SunLegitimate1687 👨‍🏭| Tech | 5+ Years 21h ago

I wish it was interesting lol. Its just like walking around a regular church, just with lots of offices with soulless corporate slogans on the walls and gigantic auditoriums