Geez, you had ONE job!

[Basil]

 

[Guest]

No, those are the trees that jump out in front of you.:laugh:

 

[mikephillips]

Government employee. Bet the directions said to "plant in front of" and by golly they adheared to the letter of the instructions. While not all are this way, many I've known do EXACTLY what they're told even if it is obvious that it isn't intended to be literal.

 

[LarryK]

New walkway. Designer went with a certain layout and the contractor did what was blueprinted and left trees. No one in government wanted to move trees and left it to owners of shops now they can plant new trees hopefully before the trees start popping the walkway and has to be redone. Typical city planning! The state came thru and surveyed for our hwy to bring to DOT specks with new sidewalks. They paid property owners for using the yards and new right of way. Then the Village comes thru and tears the yards up for a new water line before state does work. I asked where was the money for their work and the answer was you were paid by the state. Then the contractor laid new hwy and was adding the curbs and sidewalks when the state blamed him for curbs being 6" to high in spots. State used own surveyors who were wrong, so contractor pulled full crew until state would pay him to redo. Took and extra 6 months to do job as contractor pulled crew 4 times until state approved the money for there own screw up. Noisiest 1 1/2 yrs. ever on this hwy.

 

[HealeyRick]

Could be worse:

 

[Deleted member 8987]

Best are, since those trees have been there a while, that the plan is new trees in the boxes, cut out the old ones (hazard to pedestrian navigation).
Around here....the contractors a number of years ago quit arguing with the 90-day-wonder state engineers.

So...."Texas T"....HOV on and off ramps, crosses only one side of the freeway...they built it as the blueprints said....before they could stripe the roadway, the walls cracked. Insufficient re-bar, 90-day-wonders screwed up...taxpayer expense, took it all out and did it right.

HWY 16...from Ft. Lewis area on I-5 west to Galloping Gertie...built the flyover ramps as to spec...went to stripe it, was 1.5 lanes wide, not 2 lanes...tore the whole thing down, columns and all, and started over...at taxpayer expense.

New 520 floating bridge. Contractor built as per 90-day drawings, floated them into place, and they started spalling and cracking.....90-day problem, taxpayers paid for fixing them. Contractor said, in print, "I would not allow my family to drive on this bridge".

Then list goes on and on and on......

 

[LarryK]

Just amazing no one can work as accurately as we used to do. Everything is hurry up get done as cheap as possible. State of Illinois has law on books to automatically go to lowest bidder, never meets budget.

 

[mikephillips]

Repaved the street out front of my then office a few years ago. Week after they finished, cut 6' out of the middle to replace sewer lines ending up leaving a sunken area down the middle that needed repaving the next summer.

 

[judow]

When building a house in FL, prints showed floor to ceiling windows in all rooms including two street level bathrooms. I said, "You must be kidding." Contractor said, That's what the prints say and that's what we're doing." Long story short, they did, we griped, prints changed and contractor gets paid extra and charge back to architect. Geez, it was just your average subdivision house. :hammer::hammer: