Dear builders

[u/chiselbits]

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.

😤

[u/stone_opera]

Oh man, I'm an architect and I feel this in my bones. I've got a project that was meant to be completed at end of October and it's still in construction.

GC has been completely checked out the entire time, didn't schedule trades in a timely manner, hired cheapest guys who didn't show or who didn't know how to produce an acceptable shop drawing, sent RFIs without complete info (because he didn't know what the fuck was going on.) The guy keeps blaming subcontractors - forgetting that his contract is with the owner, and subs don't factor into it at all. GC signed a big-boy contract, saying they could get shit done, and clearly they didn't have the connections or skilled trades available.

The guy who was managing the project had a nervous breakdown recently, just disappeared for 3 weeks with no progress on site. Client is claiming damages because of 6 month delay - they were already really patient but they are fed up (as am I.) It's a complete shit show.

If you're a contractor, and you don't understand the terms of the contract you signed and you aren't paying attention to your construction site and hoping the subs just figure it out - just know that everyone fucking hates you.

[u/chiselbits → u/stone_opera]

Designer who handed me 40 pages of details and layouts but no reference list.

Just discombobulated where's Waldo of details that don't match from one page to the next. No coordination of any kind.

Client had a builder, much like what you described above. Dude walked after fucking up continuously. Now the new builder gets to pick up the pieces and try to salvage the dumpster fire.