Wonderful stroke of luck!

[waste]

Hal, it's God's way of saying 'thank you' for taking care of the church pool

[Sumo1]

Thanks, Ted. I've always liked reading your posts. I've wanted to ask you whether you feel any conflict about servicing people's pools with the 'pool store' method versus BBB. I try to keep myself from being "preachy" and trying to convert everyone I talk to about pools. I find myself really fascinated by pools and can imagine myself operating a pool service business in the future, perhaps as I reach retirement in my current job. A lot of people move into lawn service/landscaping but I think pool service would be more enjoyable for me.
Hal

[waste]

Thanks, Ted. I've always liked reading your posts. I've wanted to ask you whether you feel any conflict about servicing people's pools with the 'pool store' method versus BBB. I try to keep myself from being "preachy" and trying to convert everyone I talk to about pools. I find myself really fascinated by pools and can imagine myself operating a pool service business in the future, perhaps as I reach retirement in my current job. A lot of people move into lawn service/landscaping but I think pool service would be more enjoyable for me.
Hal

Hal, I ranted a couple of times last year about not being able to 'spread the word' on BBB Ben posted on one of them, something to the effect: 'Even the Bible allows dishonesty if it's to be able to eat', and that I should try to come up with something that would allow my boss not to loose $$ on chem sales while still being honest. I've thought a good deal on it and can't find a way (other than pointing out the problems caused by 'set-and-forget' puck feeders and that a SWCG might be a better alternative for certain customers). I also DO tell some of the customers, who seem to actually care about their pools and don't buy their chems from us anyway about BBB (& this site and the new 2 sites- and who I am [I ask them never to mention my companies name in connection w/ me - as that would cause me an ethical dilemna, I don't want someone to realize that I was in their backyard a week ago and added chems that I don't recomend here ]).
After a while I figured out that most of our customers don't want to be bothered with taking care of their pool - all they want is to throw a couple of pool parties each summer and, if someting goes wrong, they call us and we fix it - no matter the cost or how preventable it could have been!!!! I always tell people the truth about their pools but, unfortunately - sometimes it has to be the 'company line' (use pH+ and not tell them about the washing soda they could get for ~1/2 price,- sins of omission)
In the meantime, I TRY to explain to my boss why what we're doing isn't right - but he's 'old school pool' and doesn't get, why the things that used to work don't now (it's because they only worked by luck) - I'd love to lock him in a room with chem-geek for a couple of hours :-)