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

The Downfall of a $2M Landscape Business Empire!

26 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A multi-speaker transcript excerpt from the YouTube video "The Downfall of a $2M Landscape Business Empire!" (Mike Andes, uploaded Dec 26, 2024). The speakers discuss legal compliance and OSHA violations, violent incidents and threats (hard hat thrown; 'gun to our head'), personnel management (cutting 'bad eggs'), and financial losses ("We lost eight grand a month"). The exchange is conversational, sometimes repeated for emphasis, and centers on how operational, legal, and safety failures nearly sank the business.

Is that legally compliant? I have no idea. I just know you will make more money.
Everybody wants to make more money.
But you know, I'm looking at the OSHA violations. I'm looking at processes.
It can always be worse.
All the things that have come up in the past 24 months that literally could have sunk this.
Oh, no, you need to shut the door.
I default to violence.
I've actually had a hard hat thrown at me.
We lost eight grand a month property.
So it's gonna be hard to get past that.
We are in business to make money.
Yeah. Maybe nobody will see it, but you could have done better.
We've really cut out some bad eggs.
They're and complaining and moaning about everything.
They go back and was violent to them. Have you ever seen Fight Club?
We had a gun to our head. We would do it.
That was bad. That was a bad day. I had to make him quit.