On this particular job we are only doing the switch install/configuration for (depending on your point of view) an enormous campus network, or a very small metro net. Another company is burying all the fiber. Another company is doing all the inside cabling, Yet another company is handling power requirements, etc.

Some of the problems we're having are that the fiber is unlabled, so he doesn't know which pairs to plug the switch into. Racks aren't in place that need to be in place for him to hang the switches, there is no power in some of the closets.... It's stuff like that. He doesn't have the tools or the time (and probably doesn't know how) to do some of that himself. Our company, however, has an entire division dedicated to cabling. So the company has the resources to step in (which is what we're now doing) and take over for the sub-contractor who isn't living up to his end of the bargain.

So I don't think it was extreme laziness on his part that this stuff didn't get done, I just don't think he took the initative to get someone on the phone and say "I need a couple of people to help me out because the other sub is putting me behind schedule."

Personally, I would have stepped in a long time ago and said "It's time to get off the dummy ride here. Either you do it, or I will, and I'll bill you for it." Then again, I have a couple of things that I guide myself by.

It is better to ask forgiveness than permission
You don't know how much authority you have until you over step it. Then you'll get told exactly how much you have.

Those are a rather glib way of saying something that is straight out of the NCO creed. "I will seek responsibility and accept responsibility for my actions." No one was willing to take ownership of the mess, so I did.