My cousin wrote a sci-fi story about a space janitor, but the whole thing was really about the quiet anger he felt cleaning up after his messy roommates. The weird setting just gave him a place to put those real feelings.

Honestly I was the same way for years, but a bad power supply taught me real quick that you can't just reinstall your way out of hardware.

Yeah, that sounds like a huge pain.

Totally get the hidden cost of your time.

Forget the tech for a sec. The real power move is putting a late fee policy right on the invoice. Even if you never charge it, just seeing that line item changes client psychology. They stop seeing the invoice as a suggestion.