Weekend Warrioring

You wouldn't believe it, but I actually like working Saturdays. Construction sites are busy, hectic and fast-paced, and during the typically weekday day, I'm too busying running around answering questions and dodging blame to actually get anything done. During the week I don't have time to do the things I'm supposed to. Saturdays, I kind of can.

Unfortunately, this Saturday, the task I had to do involved walking every single room of the two floors I'm running. Fourty seven rooms a floor, so I had to walk in almost 100 rooms. And what was I doing? Checking to see if walls were painted.

Yes, on a site this big, it's actually possible to miss painting entire walls. And actually, it's not that uncommon to miss building entire walls. My very first project with this company, we built an office with a full commercial kitchen. The kitchen was supposed to have glass tile on all four walls. No one, not my boss, not his boss, picked up on it. We'd only painted it. Which is unfortunate because the tile was supposed to keep the kitchen, with five sinks, waterproof. No one noticed until the day before the company was supposed to move in. And even more oddly, no one cared. No one complained, no one was mad, so we just slapped some waterproof paint on it.

I didn't find any unpainted walls today. Well actually one, but that's cause we'd just added an inch to it. But that wasn't the only thing I was checking for. I had a lovely little list of fourty items per room to check for and had to mark them in spreadsheet so my boss could know our level of completion in every room.

Floor tile, shower glass, ceiling moulding, all the good stuff. I had to walk through every single room and put in x in a box to mark it done. Fourty items, fourty boxes, two floors. I knew my hand would be seriously hurting if I had to 3200 checkmarks.

Luckily I didn't have to. My floors are quite far behind.

See you Monday