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On Wednesday I was instructed to layout a new house on a rebuild section in the part of town worst affected by the earthquakes.

Went to the site and found the demolition not complete - the old foundation was still in place.

A terse message about site prep went back to the project manager.

This morning we get the message from the project manager that the site is "ready this time".

Yeah Right - this is what we found.

At least I'm not the guy in the white suit....


 
Posted : October 26, 2017 3:17 pm
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[SARCASM]That's when you send that same picture to the "project manager" and tell him you need a hand on site with the lay out.[/SARCASM]


 
Posted : October 26, 2017 9:17 pm
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That's when I "trip charge" bill. 😎


 
Posted : October 27, 2017 4:18 am
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Call the guy back and ask him how many times he's going to pay you to go out and look at a site that isn't ready?


 
Posted : October 27, 2017 6:46 am
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Tommy Young, post: 452696, member: 703 wrote: Call the guy back and ask him how many times he's going to pay you to go out and look at a site that isn't ready?

Or send him a huge bill for the staking that "was" done.


 
Posted : October 27, 2017 8:23 am

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Too late you took the picture, by then the asbestos had already infected you.


 
Posted : October 27, 2017 8:46 am
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send him that picture along with an invoice and tell him you will finish the survey later.


 
Posted : October 27, 2017 9:08 am
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I totally feel you guys here. We have a site for a parking lot layout with new islands and curb and gutter. Last week they called me to stake the curb and gutter I thought nothing of it and sent the crew. What I didnƒ??t know was they had a completely new Civil engineer (makes 3 sets of plans on this project) reengineer all of the offsite curb and gutter and sidewalk and never forward me the plan. Some people just donƒ??t get what their job is on a project. They had only three people that needed that plan set and they couldnƒ??t get it right.


 
Posted : October 27, 2017 11:25 am
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NEIL T, post: 452746, member: 12302 wrote: I totally feel you guys here. We have a site for a parking lot layout with new islands and curb and gutter. Last week they called me to stake the curb and gutter I thought nothing of it and sent the crew. What I didnƒ??t know was they had a completely new Civil engineer (makes 3 sets of plans on this project) reengineer all of the offsite curb and gutter and sidewalk and never forward me the plan. Some people just donƒ??t get what their job is on a project. They had only three people that needed that plan set and they couldnƒ??t get it right.

For staking jobs, I routinely tell my client which drawing is the latest one that I have, and if there have been any revisions since. If it's more than a month old, there almost always is a revision that I was not told about.


 
Posted : October 27, 2017 12:16 pm
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jim.cox, post: 452645, member: 93 wrote: At least I'm not the guy in the white suit....

or the neighbors to either side. That has to be comforting watching people in hazmat suits and respirators treating the lot next door like Fukushima.


Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.

 
Posted : October 27, 2017 12:36 pm