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**joasis** · 10-29-2009, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Zinsco

I run into general contractors who tell me what great schedulers they are. I laugh right in their face. A general contractor is no more in control of a job than a cowboy is in control of a bucking bronco. The GC should just hang on for the entire ride and hope he's alive at the end.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but only the weather can throw me a curve. In this day and age, you either watch it happen, or you make it happen. I make it happen.

Zinsco · 10-29-2009, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by joasis

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but only the weather can throw me a curve. In this day and age, you either watch it happen, or you make it happen. I make it happen.

There's always extras, changes, delays, unforeseen things... When you start a job and you have it all scheduled out on your computer, that is never the way it actually goes down.

john elliott · 10-29-2009, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Zinsco

I run into general contractors who tell me what great schedulers they are. I laugh right in their face. A general contractor is no more in control of a job than a cowboy is in control of a bucking bronco. The GC should just hang on for the entire ride and hope he's alive at the end.

Plenty of truth in that. To many people claim to be in copntrol of things that can't be controlled. Maybe they've just been lucky so far, or have a different view of what 'control' means

Anything that involves other people is subject to forces that are outside of any one person's control. There are excellent examples throughout history.

bconley · Today, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Zinsco

There's always extras, changes, delays, unforeseen things... When you start a job and you have it all scheduled out on your computer, that is never the way it actually goes down.

Yes this is all true but a schedule is always being updated and evolving, if you don't schedule, the subs will walk all over you and take as much time as you give them to complete their job, (which is forever if you don't have a schedule)