No one said your opinion isn’t allowed here. You showed up guns blazing, stirring the pot, took the first shots at HWE guys, and now you’re trying to play the victim because people pushed back. That’s not “being silenced,” that’s just disagreement.
You’re the one who dragged in the Conservative vs Liberal nonsense. Nobody else made this political. But since you went there, you exaggerated HWE as, flooding carpets like it’s the 90s, got called out, and now you’re crying foul. That tells me plenty about where you stand.
Your VLM picture doesn’t prove what you think it proves. Sure, there’s a visible difference. But is it actually clean? No. I can vacuum a hammered room and have the homeowner walk in and say, “Wow, it looks amazing!” and I have to tell them, “We’ve only vacuumed, we haven’t even started HWE yet.” By your standard, that’s done, because it looks better and the customer doesn’t know any different. Just collect the check and move on, right?
Like I’ve said repeatedly, I’m not anti VLM. We use it. It’s a tool. It has its place. It’s just not the magic answer to everything, and it doesn’t replace proper cleaning.
The carpet in your pic is disgusting. I’d hate to think there’s a baby crawling around on that, VLM clean, but I’m guessing that doesn’t bother you much as long as you didn’t have to buy a truckmount and the profit margin looks pretty.
Honestly, you’d be perfect for upsells. At the end of the job you can tell your residential customers,
“By the way, we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.”
And for commercial,
“Hey, we are also with the voice activation department, and we'd like to talk to you about your Google listing.”
And when you toss those filthy bonnets into the washing machine tonight, really think about why you clean them that way, and why your customers carpet doesn’t get the same courtesy. Glad you make your customers the exception to the rule.
