It makes me have such mixed feelings about the guys my apartment hires, because on the one hand I know that lawn care employees are overworked, underpaid, and heavily exploited, and I feel bad for them.

But on the other hand they find every single plant in any tiny nook in the complex that isn’t just grass and fucking destroy it, and I fucking hate them and wish their jobs didn’t exist. I planted a little rose bush in an out of the way nook after it outgrew it’s pot, within 48 hours they chopped it the fuck down. Wildflowers? Death.

How can you work with plants all day and seemingly have nothing but hatred for them as a life form

[–] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How can you work with plants all day and seemingly have nothing but hatred for them as a life form

Lawncare is just a completely different animal from gardening. It's quantity VS quality, very little attention to detail and much more formulaic. Weeds are bad. Grass is good. Grass turn brown, add water. Grass get tall, cut it. Fertilize grass every X weeks. If there's dirt, add grass seed.

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For sure, I was comparing it more to my experience doing farm work when I worked in an agriculture lab.

In the middle of a day of measuring leaves and bagging silks, the time we found watermelons growing in the field we didn’t go “destroy them and move on” we paused and admired

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

In the middle of a day of measuring leaves and bagging silks

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