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Anonymous wrote:I think people may be unfairly denigrating op based on her poorly worded title/potentially misinterpreting the situation.
When OP references her “landscapers” in the title I think many (myself included) envisage a team of workers working on a massive property for at least multiple hours per day. If this is in fact the case then absolutely she’s a monster for begrudging them taking a lunch break to relax out of the hot sun for 30-60 minutes during the shift.
From the actual post, however it sounds like op actually has a weekly lawn mowing service, (which we have and at least in our case consists of ~15 minutes of service/week) and the employees are regularly hanging out on OPs property either before starting or after completing the work.
If the latter is the case and the lawn service is showing up to complete a quick 15-30 minute job but routinely taking an extra 30-60 minutes before or after to hang out to eat lunch and rest on her property I would also be annoyed and seek another service.
why?
Because having strangers hanging out in our small yard area is disruptive/noisy, especially as we have young kids. As neither my husband nor I are keen to mow the lawn ourselves, a 15-20 minute disturbance is worth the chore saved. If the length of the disturbance was regularly tripled to 45-75 minutes because the crew opted to take a break in our yard that was 2-4x as long as the actual service they provided we would probably rethink the pro/con calculus.
"Disturbance"
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Not sure what is funny about that. We have a small yard and not great windows/sound proofing so when our weekly lawn mowers come it’s hard to get work done/have kids nap, etc during that period or it can interrupt briefly interrupt outdoor play.
It’s a minor inconvenience for the 15-20 minutes the mowing takes, but if the 15 minutes of noise/disruption for actual services provided routinely stretched to an hour + because the workers were subsequently hanging on our property for a lunch break l I’d rethink the service.
Similarly if I hired someone to come clean my home for 1-2 hours/week and upon completion she decided to hang out to take a break in my living room for another 2-4 hours after completion while I was working from home I would find another option.