It can never be simple

[jethrien]

Chuckro lined up an elaborate set of contractors to do all the various work in a specific order.

One just failed to show.

Semi-fortunately, we had a natural pause in the work because we were planning to go away for a long weekend. Apparently now we will not actually be going away for a chunk of it, because the friggin' contractor has to be rescheduled for Friday morning instead of right now. Since it's probably too late to cancel, we're going to need to eat one of the hotel nights.

Sigh.

Comments

[dushai]

WARNING: In general, contractors are not as reliable as, say, your coworkers. (I'm not assuming your coworkers are especially reliable.) There is something about the contracting industry that seems to set contractors' expectations about how they can treat customers, and those expectations are set somewhere south of "I'll just do the work whenever I get around to it and they'll just have to deal." To be fair, construction is one of the more complex, logistics-heavy, Gantt-chart nightmarish, supply chain ultra-challenge, generally-full-of-the-unexpected undertakings that it has been my privilege to encounter in life. But that having been said, there's no reason why contractors can't keep in touch with their clients and let them know when there are delays -- except that they generally don't seem to do so.

Long story short, for the sake of your own sanity please have layers upon layers of contingency plans for each contractor event, as this may not be your only unexpected delay.