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Another large problem is just plain arguments. Just because a bat has teeth does not mean he’s going to chew through the side of your attic. And just because 24- hour trap checks work well in New York, does not mean that they should be the law out west as well. I find myself having strong opinions about things myself, but one of the most important keys on my keyboard is BACKSPACE! Once I get it out of my system and reread what I just typed, I realize that what I wrote has no business being printed in the first place. Thank God for BACKSPACE. What I try to do more of is take the time to reread what I have just posted and see if this is something that I would like to read myself.
Now this is what I have done to hopefully improve my posts on Facebook and my credibility with my fellow technicians. If it’s a question about something that I know nothing about - moles comes to mind, I avoid saying anything at all. If it’s a question where I think I can be of help, like hiring new employees, I will mention what has worked and what has not for our company. The great thing about Facebook is if you don’t like something that I posted, you can skip right over it and pretend like I never wrote it. This is the mistake that too many of us make. We read something we disagree with and then argue with the writer. (I still find myself doing this with politics and I don’t follow it close enough to be persuasive.) What we need to do is concentrate on what we like on Facebook and just skip the stuff we dread.
There are so many wonderful, helpful, new products that can really assist your business. Today is a great example: Keith Markun showed a new, tall, stepladder, Brandon Shore showed a new snips for cutting Ridge Guard and Pest Bloc, and Ryan Croteau showed us
some pictures of domesticated baby lab rats that someone obviously let go! Now that’s a lot of new things and that’s not even all of them. We discuss just about every phase of animal damage control, fur trapping, and pest control, all on one site. I’ve learned a lot of information on Facebook and I really do enjoy it, but there is room for improvement. I will try to do better. (But if you leave me an opening, you’re still going to get the wisecracks!)
I thought this was unusual enough to include it in my column. I have a good customer who dislikes cottontail rabbits enough so that shehasoneofmytwo-door9x9 Tomahawks set over the hole in her deck all year long. Well I haven’t caught anything in a couple of months, but last week she gave me a call and told me I caught a duck. There is no bait, lure, or anything else in that cage, so what do you suppose a mallard drake wanted underneath her deck? I know it wasn’t the hen mallard because she was on the pond cussing up a storm!n
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