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It always irritates me
Out doing a lot survey today. Day went ok. The police showed up twice for different calls across the street at the Library. A guy screaming at people in the parking lot. Police showed up, couldn’t find him. Hour later, two guys were in a heated argument over lasers. I thought it might come to blows. Someone must have called the police again–they showed up. I blew those off, just social crap. But what really got me was the neighbor. He came out, asking what I was up to. He mentioned he’d like some surveying on his parcel, over on an island nearby where one would have take a ferry, said he only needed a “half hour of work.” He showed me on his phone where it was. Out near a wetland, across a country mile of brush. Yeah, a half hour I told him. Lol. He didn’t like my comment that nothing takes a half hour and left. Can’t please them all.
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If he knows so much about surveying, why does he need you?
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Yeah, I have learned that everything and anything takes at least two hours. For example, I am now gonna tie my shoelaces…
😉
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Be happy you found out his expectations before you wrote up a contract.
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People think we’re magicians.
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Exactly!
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Truth be told, that’s why I kept chatting w/ him. When he started off with a “it’ll take you a half-hour to do it,” I was just overjoyed to hear that it more likely was a two day affair–then I was overwhelmed w/ enlightening him on the process of performing such a survey and the steps. When he processed that–his eyes got big and walked off w/ such bewilderment. It was fun indeed.
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It’ll take 30 mins. Or 3 days.
Price is still 1800$
Mm hmmm
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People think we’re magicians.
We are.
Geomagicians!
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Exactly……..
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Nice young neighbor asked about finding his boundaries on a 9-acre tract. Told him I would get back to him as I was fairly certain I had made that survey.
Called him back today. His first question was whether it would be bad, like $200, or good, more like $100.
This is simply a case of having absolutely no clue about the cost of surveying. None.
He is a nice guy who works very hard but who probably works two days or more to get a net paycheck of $200.
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Over the years I’ve had a number of coworkers, neighbors, acquaintances ask me if I could drop around their place on a Saturday to survey their boundary “for a box of beer”.
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The shoppers do not bother me, what grinds my gears is nosy nellies inquiring about the owners plans, if they are going to subdivide etc. That is not really my place to share; check public records or ask the owner directly.
Working on heavy civil sites I am always surprised by people with strong objections to the works; saying that they should just use more buses instead of putting in a subway or not fret about dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of CSO into the lake.
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It’s going to cost what? I only need one line surveyed.
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