What weekly mowing revenue did the subcontractor promise and how did it change?

Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

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14 Sept 2024 · 0 min

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This is a YouTube video by Mike Andes ("FIRED! (Caught on Camera) 🔥☠️ #businessturnaround #mikeandes #landscaping") containing a multi-speaker conversation about operational problems in a landscaping business. In this excerpt speakers discuss a subcontractor who repeatedly cut promised mowing revenue (from $5,000 → $4,700 → $3,800 → $3,200 per week), a subcontractor sending a 'nasty text', the possibility of laying off at least one employee, and the speaker being left with two extra people and equipment to reassign or let go.

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Promised $5,000/week, then reported as $4,700 → $3,800 → $3,200 per week.

I don't think he's going to be.
Super hurt.
If we have to lay him off.
I originally kind.
Of planned on having two weeks to plan this out.
Our subcontractor.
Sent me a nasty text.
He originally had.
Promised us $5,000 a week in mowing. That turned into like, 4,700, which turned into 3,800, and now we're down to, like, 3,200 a week.
I think he's just afraid of, like, charging people the right amount because he wants to make them happy.
And he was just like. He's like, well, if you guys can't keep our quality, you know, maybe we'll.
Just take them back.
So now it's.
Kind of dumped in my lap. I've got two extra people and a bunch of equipment that I need to figure out what to do.
The only one we might have to lay off would be because I don't think I could really afford to keep him around, which I would help.
Find him another job. We could find him something with somebody. First time I've had to really lay anybody off.