A senior colleague took a couple of us new kids on a field trip to visit a few jobs last week.?On the first, we had an issue pop up that needs to be addressed.?A subcontractor didn�t perform up to...
A senior colleague took a couple of us new kids on a field trip to visit a few jobs last week.?On the first, we had an issue pop up that needs to be addressed.?A subcontractor didn�t perform up to any kind of standards on a project.?It was one of the worst install jobs I�ve seen in my career.
Unfortunately, that subcontractor�s management wasn�t seeing it the same way.?Having grown up in construction as a subcontractor, I�d never leave a project sitting like that.?It�s simply unacceptable.
This is where I feel at home in my new job.
I started poking around the corners of the web, looking for industry standards.?That wasn�t very fruitful, but I learned a lot in the process and that�s a good thing.?Then, rather than mess with industry standards, I started poking around the sub�s contract documents and submittals (that�s paperwork showing what with and/or how they�ll build something in the field).
It took some digging, but I found more than enough to get them to fix their problems.?I shared everything with the project manager running the job for our office and sat back in my chair for a few minutes, relishing the fact that I�m starting to feel like home in my new job.?There are still a lot of new things to learn and get used to, but there are those things that will be just like �the good old days�.
Neat little tidbit; with recovery, all of this has come to be.?I owe all of my peace, happiness and contentment to AA and recovery.?Without either, I�d have been worm food twenty years ago.
And for all of that, I am grateful.
