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Update: A crane guy in Newark cost us 4 hours, and now half my crew says it was our fault
Last Tuesday we had a delivery of structural steel on a tight job in Newark, and the crane operator showed up 90 minutes late because he said our street permit had the wrong block number on it. We ended up with 14 flatbeds staged on a one way street, two guys directing traffic in the rain, and the ironworkers standing around getting paid to do nothing for almost 4 hours total. My super says we should have double checked the permit ourselves before booking the crane, since we are the ones who eat the delay costs. But my take is the crane company is the one who filed the permit, so why are we the ones getting blamed on the daily log? I get that everyone wants to cover themselves, but this feels like a case where we just took the hit because we were the last ones to touch the paperwork. Has anyone else gotten stuck paying the price for a sub's mistake on permits, and did you push back or just eat it to keep the schedule?
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drew_bennett2413d ago
This is the same story as when my internet goes down and the phone company blames the line, the line blames the router, and the router blames the phone company, but somehow I'm the one paying for a week of no service. Everyone points at the next guy down the chain, and the person holding the bill just eats it. The permit thing is a perfect example because the crane company filed it, so the mistake started there, but your super is right that you eat the cost, so now you're both right and nobody wins. That's the part that drives me nuts, being right doesn't get the 4 hours back or the rain pay back. Sounds like from now on somebody on your side needs to eyeball every permit before the crane even leaves the yard, not because it's your job but because it's your money. Sucks that it works that way, but the last one to touch the paper always seems to be the one holding the bag.
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