What would you have done

That would put the ball in his court, and i'd go from there.

Robert

I developed the rule of 30 over a long career in education in an attempt to explain the otherwise unexplainable. For example, if you put thirty well-prepared, well-motivated students into an examination room, one kid will find a way to screw up the paper in a manner no one had dreamed possible.

Take the case of the girl who walked in, tripped over her feet, landed flat on her face and screamed, "Don't touch me! Don't touch me!" until she got control of her embarrassment. With her peers thoroughly psyched out, she then got up and wrote the best paper of her life.

Or the girl who wrote for two hours, then sat for the final hour, only to approach me after the papers were collected to tell me that she had somehow forgotten to write the second half of the exam. Rule of 30 says you set her down and let her write it.

Or the tearful rookie teacher who encountered a set of parents who were unaccountably cruel to her. I told her that regardless of how good or bad a job you do, one set of parents in thirty will be awful. It's just the rule of 30.

So look at the mowing job this way: you might as well keep the relationship with the realtor sweet, for you are in for 29 good ones after this jerk.

Just a thought. I most certainly would've done the same, and probably some joker will get away with one, but may not. I work with a guy that put a new, small, upstart landscaping business out of business - got the deal of the century, really, then nickled, dimed, and litigated the poor goor out of business over never ending high dollar freebies. And he thinks nothing of it, as a matter of fact he chuckles about it. I don't operate like that. The guy's a bum.

Mark

1-The ownwer is a typical spoiled yuppie.
2-I can just about guarantee that he knows absolutely nothing about how to do the job that you are doing.
3-He's used to giving a lot of orders to people.
4-He needed to be told that, thank God, you were working for the agent and not him. And then--I'd have said "Get out of here before a stone goes through your car window or hits a better target!"

I don't see this guy as being a danger except to himself because of his attitude and his mouth. I would have kept working and laughed at him as he pitched his "hissy fit."

Spoiled yuppies----they are all over the place!

2) The "argument went down hill fast"

While it may be inadvertent, the agent created a hostile/unsafe situation.

You left in order to insure situation was defused.

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So perhaps this is one to call the agent and let him know you felt you needed to leave the job due to concerns over your safety because of the argument that occured. Does he want to be billed just for the three hours or will you be able to finish the job unharrased and unthreatened?

Maybe I'm all wet here...

I think you are on the same track as the rest of us. Just brought up the fear for safety issue. I do not think anone else would disagree with leaving if you are threatened with harm.

Good luck.

I would go back and finish the job as an agent for the realty company. There may be future jobs on the line.

matt