New technicians really get involved with their new occupation. Today one of our guys stopped in for more supplies and he told me

about his latest job, which is a six family apartment. When he arrived at the address, he saw two squirrels shoot into a hole in the

soffit. But that's not why he was called. They have a raccoon family living in another part of the building. When he went up in the

attic to investigate, he found a large mound of bat droppings and looked up to find a group of bats. I asked him if there was

anything else. He said that he was taking along some rodent bait stations just to be on the safe side.

That sounds like a busy place to live. Evict the guys and then treat the building next door.

Fresh eyes and eager to work, great combination

How'd you price that one out?

Good question cj. I can price the squirrels and raccoons in my sleep, but the bats are priced either by my son P.J. or my son-in-law

Tom. Which is a good thing because they are the guys that have to do the work.

you bring up an interesting point there paul...when I was at orkin...had a commercial sales guy that was trying to sell wildlife control work but he didn't know anything about it...ended up screwing me out of a lot of commission on a big bird netting job....I finished out the month and left telling the manager he just created new competition

should be worth 20 plus commision