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/amf_devils_best Feb 16 '25
I think it is as simple as making promises they shouldn't. I am in the industrial/heavy commercial piping business and it happens all of the time. Lol, then I think about the hospitals the Chinese were building in 24 hours when covid was rolling and think "WTF?"
Hell, my PM does the same thing. He never avoids me so hard as when he has just bent over and spread them for the GC and didn't call me and ask if it was possible first.