When 16-year-old Mike Fly stopped into a septic service supply store in 1983 hoping to sell some batteries to owner Bud Sweet, he came away with more than the gas money he was hoping for. “He asked me if I wanted to come to work. I said yes. He said show up Saturday morning at 8 o’clock. I showed up Saturday morning at 8 o’clock and I haven’t left.”The Placerville, California, company was undergoing rapid expansion at the time, as the retail and pumping business Sweet had started 11 years earlier expanded into manufacturing precast concrete septic tanks. By the
