This past weekend I helped out a neighbor with a roofing job, and a few things came roaring back to me. My neighbor called me late and asked if I could help him out, so I went with him, and he told me that there would be two others also and it would be a fast job to remove shingles from a roof. We get there and he had explained how easy it was going to be and put the shingles in a dumpster in front of the house like under the eaves, Well, two big things didn’t happen…the other two guys didn’t show up…and the dumpster was behind the house, and 15 feet away. This immediately posed problems, it was going to take longer to remove them, and getting the shingles to the dumpster was going to take twice as long.
We worked all day and 2/3’s the way finished removing them but the clean up was going to be a long hard task. If everyone had showed up it would have been easier. Secondly the person tasked with the placement of the dumpster had it placed wrong, and thusly did have to pay for it in the long run. So it reminded me of the hotel days of being short staffed, of better yet..a snow day or night as it were, and the 3rd shift couldn’t make it in. It was brutal but we’d make it through. As for the dumpster it was a long day of picking up shingles and debris and taking it to the roll off container. If it was communicated correctly and placed correctly and the other people had shown up it would have been easier. Eliminating a step to save time and money.
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