I’m not a complainer… I’m a fkn doer.
I fix what’s broken, within my capabilities.
The one thing that pisses me off the most is blatant incompetence & a lack of care in one’s work.
I had roofers at my house today repairing the damage from a fallen tree, and this is what I found in my driveway… 25 fkn nails in the driveway… WTF! 🤬 
Very unprofessional.
I would of been hauln shingles up a lader all fuknday if we left a site like that.
Tradespeople are so hard to come by up where we live, that the “shoe is literally on the other foot” in the customer/trades relationship. A lot of them act like they are doing you a favour just showing up.
Whereas back home closer to “civilization” it is a highly competitive market where trades are actively trying to earn your business, up here the only thing that we have to enforce good cleanups and good quality is written deficiency lists post-job, and 30% holdbacks on payment. On a new home build, if you let even one subtrade skip their cleanup or deficiencies, not only will the next trades simply drive away and go to their next multi-day contract when they see the mess, but you’ll quite quickly find yourself with a site that has no clear space for incoming materials. It can make hitting those already unrealistic closing dates nearly impossible.
One time I had to do 170 re-roofs as part of a big project we were awarded on the nearby airbase. Much of it was done in the winter. And because my employer had grossly underbid the labor, I ended up scrounging up 12 bottom of the barrel crews that were willing to do the bundles for 25% less than market. By the time the contract was over I bet I replaced half a dozen car and truck tires from nails left in driveways at tenant’s homes. Fuck I’m glad to be out of that business.
Definitely should have run a magnet sweeper over the driveway (and really all around the house). Not uncommon to drop a few nails, but proper cleanup should have caught most (but not all) of those.
