Sam, oh, I'm not mean to employees, and I usually tell them that my issue isn't with them, but with the product or the company. The trick is to be nice to the employees, make them feel like you understand how they feel about their job, then you pick a mutual enemy, "the big faceless company they work for", and you make the employee actually happy about helping you get a new cell phone or whatever.
Mahen, yeah, it would be too much water. I'm going to put in a gutter, and I was thinking I'd put in a rain collection barrel. Save a bit of water or whatever. I should put one next to the chicken coop too... Speaking of the roof, I picked up the Onduline stuff today. It looks great, I'll take a pic tomorrow. but the texture of it is really pretty. I could even imagine myself using that inside on a wall or something.
I see, clever.