My boss told me to always double-check my decimal places on a big set of plans.

He said it after I sent out a drawing for a warehouse in Denver with a beam length off by a factor of ten. I had to call the fabricator the next morning and fix it, which took two hours. That one wrong decimal point could have cost us a lot of money. How do you guys make sure your numbers are right before sending things out?

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4 Comments

jamesc791mo ago

Cost a lot of money" seems a bit dramatic.

laurablack1mo ago

My neighbor's bill was over eight hundred dollars last month. That's more than my car payment. How is that not a lot of money.

dianawilson7d ago

Gotta say, I used to roll my eyes at people complaining about electric bills (figured they just left the AC on full blast), but @laurablack your neighbor's situation really put it in perspective for me. Eight hundred dollars is insane, like that's a whole mortgage payment for some folks. I saw my own bill jump from $180 to $350 last month with no change in usage, and that alone made me rethink everything. So yeah, that's definitely a lot of money, and it's easy to judge until it happens to you or someone close to you.

kevinw941mo ago

Tell me you're out of touch without telling me you're out of touch.