<prompt> Human: Im sorry if this is the wrong sub, I welcome suggestions to where would be more appropriate to post this.I do lawn irrigation, started when I was 14 because my father owns a company. Ive done a lot of other jobs between but I actually like what I do and Im pretty good at it. This industry is almost entirely unregulated, the only times Ive seen an inspector is when the building company paid for it themselves. Terrible work is by far the norm, and competent techs are exceedingly rare. I do my best to inspect everything and report even slight inadequacies to the customer, tiered by volume of water loss and annual cost so they can make informed decisions about what theyre spending sometimes thousands of dollars on.I started with this company at the beginning of last year and I felt the first year went well. I undersold myself heavily to get my foot in the door and was within 4 months put in charge of an install crew and given a 2 dollar raise. I felt the year went well despite a lot of disputes with one of my guys whole different story, not really relevant.This year I asked for 4 dollars to bring me up to par with some of his other techs whom I had demonstrated beyond doubt that I was more efficient and skilled than. He never refused, but kept making excuses to put it off until finally I confronted him always politely that I absolutely deserve more and as long as he acknowledged Id end up with what I asked Id let it go for a while. He cleverly deflected and I never got a yes even though it felt like it. I kept my word and didnt bring it up again, but never got anything. I am absurdly underpaid and everyone agrees with me.During all this, I was replacing a minimum of 4x the number of heads as his other techs each day while maintaining the highest completion rate. The other techs are very lazy and many of the problems I fixed had been going on for years. Many problems were due to easily avoided mistakes during their previous work. About a tenth of my service calls this year were return visits to fix work they had done just days prior. I would try to sweep up as best I could, not noting simple repairs, changing slightly what I said I did, blaming catastrophic failure. Sometimes the customer would be present, though, and know what the deal was. Or theyd ask why I have so many heads to change when its never like that before, which puts me in the awkward position of having to either say they didnt do their job or play dumb. Im a very bad liar, and dont feel comfortable with fraud, but I got in trouble on several occasions for bad-mouthing other techs. Thing is, on these occasions the customer was very sharp and through careful questioning would back me into either admission or an obvious stupid lie.Its been getting a lot worse since blowouts started. Now Im going to houses I did not start up and finding massive amounts of water loss, wrong parts, bad repairs, main line leaks, fucking everything. I was taking diligent notes so it could get fixed in the spring, except today I got a message.FOR THE TECHS WHO CONTINUE TO WRITE A BOOK ON THEIR INVOICE, THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE: WINTERIZED SPRINKLER SYSTEM - DO NOT TURN ON WATER TO SPRINKLER SYSTEMThat was sent to all three techs but clearly aimed at me. The passive aggression really pissed me off, were always friendly in person and Ive always shown Im very willing to cooperate. My response was:Please contact me directly if there are any issues, I am always willing to cooperate. Is my understanding correct that I am to make no record of problems I encounter?No answer yet, 3 hours later. I complied though, I am no longer recording problems. If a customer asks me to I dont know what Ill say, but Ill figure something out. I also realized theyve been deleting all my notes I told customers I took, so when someone starts it up Im going to look like an asshole.Im tired of being villainized for doing my job well. Im tired of the borderline fraud, double charging, negligence, incompetence, and drama laden atmosphere. Im going to ride out winterizations but am already considering other employment options and drafting a resume.What are my options? Is any of this fraud? How do I turn this situation to my advantage? Im not looking to screw anybody but Im tired of being taken advantage of and need to make a stand. Thank you for your time.Edited for grammar, typing on touchscreens is hard. Thank you all for the feedback, I have gotten a lot of valuable advice and am more confident in my approach to the situation. I think the underlying lesson is that the best way to make a stand is to just walk away. Funny enough, at my first call after posting this the customer asked me if I would do side work for him because hes not happy with my companys service. I set up an appointment for an estimate and he said some of his neighbors were talking about switching companies too, this is a huge neighborhood in a very expensive golf community right up the street from me so this could be working itself out. I also pocket dialed him almost immediately after leaving, so maybe not so much but Im definitely buying a new phone.  <response>: Personally I would just look for a job at another company. 