I sold it off a doorstep before I ever tried to fix one.
Four months knocking doors for one pest control company. I had never sold anything before I picked up a clipboard. What I came away with was not a sales record, it was a list of problems nobody inside the company could see.
What that actually looked like
I would close a family on a random Tuesday and find out a week later the service never got finished, because the tech never showed. Customers cancelling at their third service told me, word for word, that they did not know what they were paying for anymore. I kept meeting people we had already sold who were still waiting on a first visit.
Then the balances. Somebody handed me a list of customers who owed money and told me to sort it out, so I sat there texting every one of them by hand. Most were not refusing to pay. Their card had expired. That was it. Accounts already sold, already serviced, needing thirty seconds of somebody's attention, and the company was fine letting all of it go.
None of it was anyone's fault. There was no system. The owner was running payroll and answering the phone and pulling a truck out of the shop, and nobody had the hours left to look at where the money was going. That is the work.