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Had a swing radius issue at a job in Seattle last Tuesday that took 4 hours to figure out
I was setting steel on a tight downtown site and kept bumping the load into the column next to me. Turns out the tail swing was getting caught on a temporary fence the site super forgot to tell me about. Anyone else have a problem that took way longer than it should have because someone didn't share info?
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milalewis12d ago
Was it REALLY that bad though?
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ward.diana12d ago
Oh man, that sounds like a headache and a half! I feel you, @milalewis, it's never just the one thing, it's the domino effect of people assuming you've got it covered. That reminds me of how my neighbor last week was steaming mad because the cable guy marked his yard for digging, but nobody told the sprinkler installer, so they hit a line and flooded the whole street. It's like we all live in these little bubbles of information, and nobody thinks to pass the message along because they assume someone else will do it. That site super probably thought you'd see the fence, but in a tight job like that, you're already watching a dozen other things. Four hours is brutal, but honestly, it sounds like a communication breakdown, not just you missing something. I swear, half the problems at my store come down to somebody assuming the next person knows what they know.
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Was it really that bad though? Sounds like the fence was just sitting there doing its job, and you missed it during the walk around. Ive been in enough tight spots to know that a quick visual check before the lift usually catches stuff like that. Maybe the super assumed youd see it, since it was in plain sight. Four hours is a long time to blame on someone not telling you what you could have spotted yourself.
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