Anyone going to the Rainbird schools this fall?

[CAPT Stream Rotar]

I'm thinking about going to vegas for a few courses!

[BSME]

I'm thinking about going to Vegas.... forget the school

[Wet_Boots]

Will they have showgirls as teaching assistants?

[CAPT Stream Rotar]

Will they have showgirls as teaching assistants?

one can only hope.

I talked about moving somewhere to do irrigation"full time" 12 months and my boss this am gives me a rainbird school list of places and courses..

I need to take the commercial design course....

[WalkGood]

one can only hope.

I talked about moving somewhere to do irrigation"full time" 12 months and my boss this am gives me a rainbird school list of places and courses..

I need to take the commercial design course....

Time to ask for a significant raise. And a plow for your truck if you stay the Winter on the Cape. Your Boss-Man is affraid to lose you. He must be making money off of your work.

[Kiril]

I need to take the commercial design course....

Irrigation design is irrigation design. The only major difference is materials used. However more times than not this is not the case cause people want to make something different that is essentially the same. Kinda like saying landscaping is not farming.

[CAPT Stream Rotar]

Time to ask for a significant raise. And a plow for your truck if you stay the Winter on the Cape. Your Boss-Man is affraid to lose you. He must be making money off of your work.

He makes a killing, when I'm on the jobs/doing the paper work with quickbooks.


the guy that trained me:
1.don't know how to turn on a computer
2.under bills labor and man hours and service calls
3.is a stubborn fAck.
4.is a drunk who forgets about half the materials we use during the day

So this year I stepped up ladder and took care of used stock on jobs,office work,calling people, making appts.

I make 18 a hr and my boss is a little scared to loose me..I don't blame him...I work my nuts off in every aspect of the job.

[PurpHaze]

So this year I stepped up ladder and took care of used stock on jobs,office work,calling people, making appts.

I make 18 a hr and my boss is a little scared to loose me..I don't blame him...I work my nuts off in every aspect of the job.

Maybe you can buy him out?

[CAPT Stream Rotar]

Maybe you can buy him out?

actually last year i had the chance to buy 300 high end accounts on cape for 100k....After a month of thought, realized im to young in the trade....3 and some change years isn't enough....I told my boss about the sale of the accounts and he jumped right on it...

oh well..Sadly this year my boss see's the $$ signs getting bigger with me on the jobs.Maybe in a few years he will sell them to me....

There is a guy on cape that STOLE 200 accounts from his former employer..

I think thats very low and dirty..I'm not a theif. I work hard for my keep.

The guy passed out "his own" cards while winterizing and stole a ton of work...

shady as hell purp.

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

What does having somebody listed as an account do for you? Does that mean you handle blowouts and spring turn ons? Is the service work during the season phone driven or do you check the system as part of a service contract? I have over a thousand customers in my computer but I don't think of them as accounts. Just people I've done work for.

[Ground Master]

You'd be better of going to the IA show in San Diego.

I'm thinking the Rainbird courses are geared towards Rainbird products (which I use some). The courses are pricey in my opinion just like the IA courses.

[DanaMac]

I am thinking of the IA show in San Diego for me and my tech. And we are both going to the Irrigation Auditor Workshop put on by Ewing in Denver later this month, and is a prep course for the IA exam I believe. Not sure if we will take the exam at that time or not.

[Ground Master]

Ditto on the IA show.

I took the course a couple years ago. It really is a good class. They offer the test during the afternoon of the second day. 75 questions and you need a 70% to pass. Takes many weeks to get the results and you only know if you passed or failed- not your percentage score


John Deere is offering some courses in late October - smack dab in the middle of blowout season. I'm gonna try and take a few of those

[DanaMac]

Ditto on the IA show.

I took the course a couple years ago. It really is a good class. They offer the test during the afternoon of the second day. 75 questions and you need a 70% to pass. Takes many weeks to get the results and you only know if you passed or failed- not your percentage score


John Deere is offering some courses in late October - smack dab in the middle of blowout season. I'm gonna try and take a few of those

I have people to pick up at the Denver airport the afternoon of the exam, so I may have tom take it, and MAYBE myself if time.

Ewing has a troubleshooting class - Oct 26. Yes, right in mid blowout season as well. Damn fools.

[gusbuster]

He makes a killing, when I'm on the jobs/doing the paper work with quickbooks.


the guy that trained me:
1.don't know how to turn on a computer
2.under bills labor and man hours and service calls
3.is a stubborn fAck.
4.is a drunk who forgets about half the materials we use during the day

So this year I stepped up ladder and took care of used stock on jobs,office work,calling people, making appts.

I make 18 a hr and my boss is a little scared to loose me..I don't blame him...I work my nuts off in every aspect of the job.

Nobody is not replacable....worker bees tend to forget that.

Play your cards smart.

Instead of a significant raise, ask for a percentage of profit per job. Give you the incentive to push and learn more and at the same time you make more money. Takes the pressure of your employer and some of the overhead regarding w.c. insurance and such.

It's a new ballgame if you come to somewhere where we work 12 months out of the year. Enjoy the time off. Use that time off to learn more, heck take some business courses.(or learn to speak Spanish if you intend to come out west, you're going to need it.)

You know the old saying, knowledge is power.

[CAPT Stream Rotar]

Nobody is not replacable....worker bees tend to forget that.

Play your cards smart.

Instead of a significant raise, ask for a percentage of profit per job. Give you the incentive to push and learn more and at the same time you make more money. Takes the pressure of your employer and some of the overhead regarding w.c. insurance and such.

It's a new ballgame if you come to somewhere where we work 12 months out of the year. Enjoy the time off. Use that time off to learn more, heck take some business courses.(or learn to speak Spanish if you intend to come out west, you're going to need it.)

You know the old saying, knowledge is power.

Great advice gus...

[FIMCO-MEISTER]

Nobody is not replacable....worker bees tend to forget that.



What was the remark George Steinbrenner made to Billy Martin in THE BRONX IS BURNING.

"Everybody is expendable, even in success."

[MarcSmith]

I'm going to try to go vegas or atlantic city....I want to do the software 1-2 for central controllers...

Marc