Ha, my old boss once matched my offer and I stayed, lasted six months before they hired two people to split my job.

Sorting into three buckets at a beach cleanup just means more hands touching trash and more time standing around, and $30 a month split across a crew is not worth the extra work. One bag keeps the pace up, and pace is what actually gets the beach clean. Ray's tip sounds clever but it slows down the job that matters.

The part about the zone fault coming back 3 times in 2 months is what gets me, because that's the real killer on wireless. Sure, a battery swap fixes it once, but if you're rolling a truck out there 3 times you've already lost money on the job, plus the customer starts thinking you sold them junk. My question is what was actually failing on that window, was it just low battery, or was it the RF signal getting blocked or bouncing weird off something in the house? Because if it was RF interference then hardwiring fixes it for good, but if it was just a bad sensor batch you might've spent 5 hours in an attic for nothing. Curious how you decided it was worth pulling wire instead of just swapping the sensor once more.