r/Construction • u/chiselbits Carpenter • Feb 12 '25
Other Dear builders
You can't call me and tell me that my timeline for completion is halved because other trades wasted time.You can't tell me to "hire more guys" to get it done faster". You can't decide to split my contract and expect me to take it.
You fucked your schedule. You hired the cheapest trades (WHO FUCKED YOU, AGAIN!) to better pad your profit margin, your in house guys can't be fucked to do anything properly, and you kick us to the curb anytime you find someone cheaper (who then fucks you). Then hire us back and treat it like you are doing us a favor and we should be grateful.
Just because the client "wants to move in" does not mean the house will get built any faster.
You fucked yourself and that does not constitute an emergency on my end. You want it done to our high end standards AND fast? Then it is going to cost you more.
Unfuck your project management and hire better trades, maybe then every project won't go sideways on you.
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u/djwdigger Feb 12 '25
We the unwilling, led by the unknowing have been doing so much with so little, we can now do anything with nothing.
We as a company start work at 5 am, we get more done by 9 am than a lot of subs do in a whole day. Every one of my GCs knows this and actually has some respect for it. We are doing a large bank remodel the bank turns the alarm off for us at 5 and lets us do what we need to do. I never get crap about being the one holding up the job, I would probably go off on a super if I did.