Question For All Self Employed/owners???

Originally Posted by Mike Finley

I can answer most of your statements in regard to you have no idea what I'm talking about.

If the code says to do something a certain way. I don't need to stand next to an electrician, be it a master, a journeyman or 2nd day helper and tell him not to do that, do it this way so it passes inspection.

Know what lippage is? I don't need to stand next to a tile setter be it a master setter, and apprentace or a 2nd day helper and inspect each tile he lays for being within proper specs of lippage.

For some reason you think I am talking about something subjective, somebody installing a light switch 1/2 inch farther to the right then I would have liked.



What a crock of absolute horse sh*t.

Construction isn't a game of concrete absolutes to sloppy ass people in this business.

The same mentality -

Construction is not showing up on time for an estimate

Construction is ball parking on your tail gate

Construction is writing your estimate on a napkin

Construction is showing up with beer on your breath

Construction is not returning phone calls

Construction is keeping customers waiting

etc...

Whatever.

I got news for you all construction is absolutely a game of absolutes.

There ain't too much that should be shocking, a surprise or different then what you expect if you know what the hell you are doing, if you care about what you are doing and if you care about your customers.

Construction is easy. Everything we do in construction has been done before a million times. Everything we do has a written set of directions, codes or industry standards.

Nobody in this industry is doing anything magical.

Originally Posted by finehomes

Years ago I had an electrician that worked this way. Showed up on the job with his journeyman on the first day to go through the job with me and homeowner to see what the job entailed and then would disappear while the journeyman did all the work. He would be at the coffeeshop hanging out with his buddies. The work was always done well and at the agreed on price and done as fast as we needed it, but it always bugged me that he was never there helping. I finally told his guy that when he finally got his master license and decided to venture out on his own....he should call me and I would be his first builder to work for. That guy has been my electrician now for the past 8 years or so!!!



Sam

Originally Posted by Mike Finley

Let me make it easy on you. You're not the first sub who has let himself be treated like a piece of sh*t once to many times by some dirt-bag general. You're mad at yourself, you feel dirty, your man-hood has been shrunk so badley you're really starting to believe that you might actually be more woman than man. It's okay. There's a solution.

You might not have been able to understand what this meant

So I'll spell it out for you real simple.

You can stop being treated like a punk, you can stand back up tall in the saddle. All you have to do is stop sucking on the money teat of general contractors. Stop living like a welfare mother off of the sweat of others. Or a crack whore having to suck the next d*ck for that rock.

Get the hell out there and get yourself some retail customers instead of crying like a baby and bitching and biting the hand that feeds you about the lack of respect you get from those generals. Get out there in the real world instead and compete with em and bring in your own jobs instead of waiting for your next hand out.

Good luck to you.