Here's my rant for March 7th.....I hate it when companies get weak in the knees and can't adhere to a schedule. Makes me absolutely furious when someone f4s my schedule when the whole job leans on a target finish date. We're building shopping plazas, highways, and commercial utilities, not house driveways....

WTF is wrong with people....where along the line did their balls retract into their throats?!?!

I've got OVER 50 truck loads of gravel, stone, and reclaim being hauled into an area tomorrow and 200 yards to be hauled OUT. With 3 oversized excavators, 2 bulldozers, 2 rollers, 1 superintendant, 2 foreman, 7 operators and 12 labores showing up at 0600 to lay total hell upon a jobsite....

....and the plumbers have all their stuff piled up and thrown everwhere, including compressors, pipe, tools, etc....it's everywhere and I was told they'd be completely 100% cleared out by Saturday. This is a crtiical component of the contract as scheduling is paramount for a concrete pour scheduled later this week. It's now gonna rain/sleet/snow tomorrow up here so I've gotta hammer this job out yesterday.

They've been asked, asked again, told, and now warned as of 15 minutes ago. Tomorrow morning I'm gonna have my crew plow everything...and I mean EVERYTHING into a big pile next to the plumbers site trailer.....I've had it. Tomorrow at 0700 there's gonna be a 30 foot pile of plumbing equipment and rubble that's gonna REALLY ruin someone else's day....NOT MINE.

That is all. I'm calm now. When your in the commercial earthwork business, size matters.

I can't wait till morning. Neither can the dozer operators when I told them what they're to do.

okay, I was curious as to whether or not the plumbers were going to heed my profanity or if they were going to simply blow me off and call it a bluff.....so I dispatched a laborer at 10pm that night to do a little recon at the jobsite to see if the plumbers were going to pick their stuff up or not. The laborer calls me at my house at 11pm to inform me that the plumbers DID NOT show up.

So at 0530 I had 4 front end loaders dropped onsite and parked in formation.

Clicky

I called the plumbing company's owner and told him he had till 0600 to relocate his stuff before I did. He calls me at 0545 in a total panic, yelling at me and threatening me with a lawsuit if I damage his stuff. I listened in total silence until he was finished. He paused after he was done and said ... "WELL?!?!"

I said "Well.......construction's a b5, and buddy you're officially in my way" then hung up the phone. I gave the go ahead and my guys rolled over that place and turned it into Beirut. You could hear PVC snapping, palettes crunching, and my guys demonically laughing as the engines throttled in high gear. A plumbing crew showed up in 30 minutes after we started pushing.....trying to stay ahead of the loaders and dozers.....but it was futile. In the background I saw a plumber on a cellphone with one hand flailing through the air and occasionally pointing to the carnage.

The owner of my company called me an hour later and said "Hey WTF are you doing over there? "Company Name withheld" are right twisted and completely upset!!!" I told him what was going down and he said ....

"Oh....really? Well f4 em."

Clicky

They were owned. Sorry plumbers, you'll get some of your stuff back. In April.

It's funny to know that there's probably over $5,000 dollars worth of materials and equipment underneath the snow pile. There's about 6 piles on each side of the jobsite.

I like that pic cause it shows a shovel and broken cone.

What'll bite even harder is when the client we're all working for backcharges the plumbers in the spring when they have to pick up all that stuff we pushed off grid.