Mea Culpa

Our main contact at the general contractor came over to meet with us yesterday. The goal was to get a more realistic time table for work completion. It was a pretty good meeting for the most part. He totally fell on his sword and acknowledged most of the goof-ups, and took personal blame for the appropriate ones. In fairness there really have been some extenuating circumstances at their end (and I have known this) that have made it difficult for them.

Now, this is the part where people say, "I don't care." And I get that. I mean, it really shouldn't be my problem. But...what kind of a world is it we create for ourselves when it becomes all business, when there is no humanity in anything? I get that it's bad to enable incompetence, but it's a fine line before you're on the other side of that coin: just being an inhuman jerk. In the end it's just a house. It's just a project. I'm not willing to betray things I believe in for the sake of potentially getting a project done faster.

Whether there is any slack or forgiveness or not, that stuff is in the past. We're far more interested in knowing what is going to happen moving forward. We did get a number of things nailed down better. The timetable for the two project sounds like two weeks and three weeks. This is until the spaces are fully usable. Full completion of all the details is some as yet undetermined time after that. Sadly I still feel this estimate is optimistic. The guy just can't get out of his own way in that regard. But hey, I could be wrong. We'll see. It looks like the entertainment provided by this blog will continue on for a while yet.