u/AwkwardFactor84

I've been working at a townhouse development for around 15+ years. We're a lawn irrigation company btw. There is an 8' deep meter pit we have to crawl into every year to turn water on/off. Well, about 8 years ago, there was a little red stripe salamander in there. 2 years later, it was much bigger with a few yellow spots, and also a young mate living in there. 4 years later, this thing is like 6" long and the mate was also getting much bigger. Here we are at 8 years, and my boss went in the pit 1 time and squashed the 2 biggest yellow spot salamanders ive ever seen. He denied it because I specifically asked him.not to harm the salamanders, but he literally left his boot print waffled into them. They were living great in there, eating crickets. It feels like he murdered a couple of my children. Maybe it sounds ridiculous, but he completely ignored my request and then tried to lie to me abput it. Why do some people have to kill every animal they encounter? I just can't undersand the logic.

It seems like I'm running into this blu-lock crap more and more. I guess it's an easy way for customers to add components to their irrigation. However, i keep having to repair or adapt to it, and all I really carry on the service truck are some males/females so I can adapt to funny pipe or poly. I'm considering telling customers that we won't service blu-lock at all. Either we replace it, or call another company who uses blu-lock. We have a fleet of ford rangers that are fully stocked for pvc and Polyethethylene repairs. There just isn't room in our trucks for another type of pipe. Anyway, just wondering you other technicians handle the blu-lock situation?