After a week of quite a bit of rain, Friday is supposed to be somewhat dry. We will attack the garage and the fleas that just won't die after at least a half dozen flea bombs. We will haul everything outside and then clean the floor and I will spray with an insecticide. I also have a flea trap on it's way. Hopefully this will take care of most of the issue. I have been reading about fleas, it seems they are almost indestructible as far as their life cycle is concerned. An infestation can take months to get rid of. Buster is still mostly flea free. If this doesn't work I guess we will have to call in a professional.
Warning: going to get something off my chest about Kim's business and how poorly she has been treated.
Kim got an email from the resort she has been plying her trade at for the last 6-7 years. After this Saturday they will no longer require her services. (FYI-she is an independent contractor not an employee) This is the resort she has worked at the longest and has been very good to her. That is until the last two years with a huge turnover on personnel she deals with. In short they did a lot of things to make her less and less successful. The main one being that they moved her from a very good location that had much foot traffic to one that was secluded, you had to be looking for her to find her. Consequently her business dropped off considerably. They also limited the amount of time she could be there, regardless of how busy she was, guests be damned. They would actually stand around waiting to take her tables when she finished, urging her to shut it down. The lack of business is the main reason they dropped her. So, stymieing her business as best they could at their guests expense, they let her go for lack of making enough money. SMH. She only made 20$ last week, which was a low. Previous years it was much much more lucrative, well into the hundreds and more at this time of year. That's a lot of child's crafts and jewelry/leather being sold.
Why did they move her? Some other vendor asked for her spot. No idea why the preference. Kim had always gotten glowing reports from the guests.
They also would constantly fail to pay her on time. The last being over two months late. That's another long story. New personnel that didn't know what they are doing despite Kim trying to help them from previous experience. While we had considered just dropping them, she couldn't replace the income that would be lost. However with all the crap she has had to endure, I'm glad she is done with them. Now she can focus on the other resort this summer, they have added an extra day for her to come over there. They are very happy with what she brings to the resort. Just like the other one used to, when they had people with brains running it.
All good things do come to an end. Good riddance as far as I'm concerned. I thin there will be times that they miss her, until the new crop of folks come in, which happens annually. Lots of turnover/transfers in that resort/hotel business.
Happy Trails
3 comments:
The only flea traps I ever found that worked were about the size of a pack of flash cards. They had a light on top, and a sticky pad below the light. The fleas would jump at the heat generated by the light, and then fall on the pad. Those worked great. Unfortunately I haven't seen any in years.
I can sympathize with you and your wife. My wife had to put up with all kinds of numbskull administrators in her school district. They finally made life so stressful that on top of everything else she retired five years early. We have both been a lot happier since then.
NO help on the fleas, but I'm glad Kim is out of the one place. There is NO excuse for bad treatment, contractor or not!!!
Bug bombs have always worked for us. Many, many bombs, close the windows/doors, and empty the room/garage, open all the cabinets and enclosed spaces, etc. We put that monthly stuff on the back of our dogs necks, and that seems to do the trick as far as keeping them flea-free.
Best wishes for Kim and the other resort.
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