Re: NOTHING but VENTS - Vent all you want without replies
I haven't come home from work this frustrated in years...and it's not necessarily any single thing, more like a series of little things that got massively compounded by a couple of big things tonight...
Without going into too much detail, I come from a background where if you've been told, "This is what we have to work with", you figure out how to do the job within those limitations. We have a contractor who just never seems to get that. We're in the middle of a project he's part of...he sent us plans for his part only a couple of days before we were supposed to start working on it. Some of the equipment he wanted to 7se is no longer in good operational order...so he revised his plans to adjust for that. I'm one of three guys working on this project...but I was never sent any of the paperwork for it. He decided that he's borrowing equipment from another area that isn't using it (Covid considerations...), so we're not only having to put together his part of the project, we're having to dismantle another project so we can put his together...
And we figured we were on top of it. We'd put everything together, his list was finished, we were moving on to the rest of the project...until tonight he announced that he wants to take another nine pieces of hardware from the dismantled project. At this point, the space we're working in is starting to get stretched a bit thin...with everything else that's there, I'm starting to worry whether we've even got open outlets we can use for his new additions. On top of that, for the last two days, I've had to borrow a boom lift from another department, drive it to where we need it (and the stupid thing has, basically, two speeds...Dead Slow and Frozen Molasses, so that's a time-consuming endeavor) to have it sit, unused, for several hours before I use it for two to five minutes and then drive it back...the round trip wastes at least half an hour of my day, and much more if Security is busy and can't come unlock gates for me.
And then, tonight, he tries to sound magnanimous about it..."I know you're working on a lot of other stuff, I don't want you to worry about this..." Yeah, well, WAAAY too late for that, because I'm the guy that's probably going to end up doing most of it, even though you say you want me to focus on the other stuff. There's three of us there that can do what you're talking about...one of us is a contractor and already has a regular job before he comes to work with us (and he's in Vegas right now because of it), the other two of us have significant lists of projects that have to be done before his project becomes relevant. I was going to spend today working on one of them and ended up constantly getting pulled into working on other stuff instead...so when am I supposed to get back to your new additions to your project?
You're the one with the big reputation...figure out how to do th he job with the tools on hand! I can think of a dozen people who could make it happen without having to steal other equipment and massively revise plans...