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Continuing Cost Shifting to the Subs
It used to be that the GC took responsibility for SWPPP plans. Not anymore it seems. Rent your own dumpster. Rent your own cleanup. What’s next rent your own porta-potty?
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Restoring Balance
If you ever look at your GC’s Project Manager and somehow see Darth Vader instead it is likely due to the behavior or superiority complex of the Project Manager. How do you bring balance? There are many ways to do so. Knowing your contract and fighting back is one-way. Going over their head is another…
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Ah yes. Hypocrisy again.
We want to see Man, Materials, and Machinery on your change orders. Sketchy as hell back charges with little to no explanation and definitely not in the now required format seems sketchy at best and well I guess that is the worst as well.
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I’m mystified by TIFF
I get it. It was one of the first picture formats capable of high-resolution pictures/plans. That said TIFF is barely mentioned anywhere anymore but I did find it in two different places. On Screen Takeoff and Planswift. Ok so you don’t want to re-write your graphics core but with interoperability being key I cannot fathom…
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Pay app repeat?
This has probably already been covered but how…I mean HOW can you simply reduce a pay app and tell someone only 3 days before you send out a check? Agree/disagree with % complete but common courtesy would demand some type of communication? And yet there was none.
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My time is important and yours is NOT
Asking for immediate response when unwilling to respond or put ridiculous conditions as a pre-requisite is just not cool.
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OBEY!
Obey the contract. Obey the contract. Obey the contract. Obey the contract only when sued. GCs really need to reconsider their stances. They do damage so often by refusing that which they have agreed to and asked the subcontractor to agree to. Work or we’ll kick you off the job. Worked when they said? Did…