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Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 😴 🎶🐈‍⬛ Monday, September 30, 2024

Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I don’t know how rude mowing at 7am on a Monday morning (in school holidays) is, but today it’s my house doing the mowing.

Don’t blame me, they sent some drongo gardener around who apparently has a key to my gates I guess, and he was banging on my door at 7:10 while I was in the shower. Needless to say, he was ignored

NB: they call themselves gardeners, but they really aren’t. The department hires lawn mowers for all the properties, including ours. They do an awful job and never take their clippings with them (or even put it in the compost bin, like we’d asked multiple times). They basically just come to mow the lawns poorly and then spray poison on anything that looks green. Not a hyperbole. So far, they’ve sprayed a capsicum tree, a watermelon seedling, a patch of strawberries, and a zucchini bush. They were all in the garden beds, with only a few weeds in there (nowhere near anything that was growing).

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Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

So far, they’ve sprayed a capsicum tree, a watermelon seedling, a patch of strawberries, and a zucchini bush

Ooh I’d be very pissed off about that.

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- Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This was back before I got into the gardening, when it was just the old LT working on it. He was reeeeeaaaaalllllly pissed, and I can’t blame him. It was my little patch of strawberries that they poisoned though, but I’m not super mad about that because they were just cuttings from a larger patch that’s in a raised planter box. If they poisoned that though, I’d be about ready to throw hands
  
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dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Disposing of clippings almost doubles the effort of the job. I mow my lawns without the hopper so the clippings are free to return to nature, and I don’t have to stop and empty the hopper 4-5 times.

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- Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Meh, they’re getting paid a pretty substantial amount of money to do a poor quality job. The least they can do is leave the place in a respectable state. It’s not that difficult.
  
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  - dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I reckon you’d find their boss was getting paid well for the job. As it’s government work, they charge high and send some numpty to do it because as you know the complaints process isn’t functional.
    
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Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’d be furious about that. Had a previous landlord ‘trim’ the hydrangeas to 2 inches with a whippersnipper, then creosote the entire fence….

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eatham@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You should change the lock on your gates and next time they come round just ignore them again

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- Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Ha! I wish. I actually don’t even have the key for one of the gates, they keyed 2 of the gates to the same key, then put a different lock on the gate between the front and back yards, and never even gave me a key to it 🙄
  
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  - eatham@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I meant just hire your own person to put new locks in. Might not be allowed if you are renting tho.
    
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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
If they’re spraying poison on food plants, you have a wonderfully large stick to start beating with

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