When the cat's away...

The mice will do FUCK all nothing is happening on the job site. Our builder has been on vacation over the past few days (his annual trip to Europe) and although work was going at a fast pace before he left, we have noticed that nobody has been to the job site in the past three days. 0_O


So the job site looks like this today and it looked like this last week. Now, this would not be a problem if we lived in a place where it is nice and sunny all year round, it wouldn't matter, since the weather would not impact the work at all. However, we live in a nordic cold country where winter is about to start in a few weeks and generally you'd want to have the house closed off before it starts to snow.  So... then... WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYONE??? how come nobody is there??? Shouldn't they be busting their asses off and get work done instead of neglecting the site? 

Well, it turns out that they have been called and asked why they were not working. They PROMISED that they would be on site this morning at 7. I drove in front of the house at 11 am and who do I see: NOBODY! Lesson learned from this story: when someone promises something in the construction world, it means... NOTHING! That's right, it means nothing at all. When I promise my client or anybody else that I will do something, I do it. No doubt. But for some of these guys, promises are just something they throw in to appease you. Nice try but it is not helping at all.  The thing is, there is not much left to be done, there is maybe another day of work to get to where we need to be. 

But it is like everything else, 90% of the job gets done but to get the last 10% complete, it takes a huge amount of either: threats, bribery, anger, guilt trips, scare tactic, money pressure. That's pretty much our range of options at this point.
It it almost like dealing with toddlers: "c'mon, finish cleaning up your room and I will: give you a candy/buy you a car/take your toys away/put you in your room/give you a time-out/put you to bed without dinner/ cancel your play date/ confiscate your DSI/ buy your ice cream". Usually you end up cleaning up alone while your toddler comfortably sits in front of the TV and eats his chocolate mousse. The big difference is that these guys are not 4 years old and we are paying them to do the work.


What we need right now, is for the cat to come back. The thing is, we are the clients, not the builder so we are not in direct contact with the workers, although I would have liked to be so I could call them and tell them to get their sorry asses back to work.
So next week, our builder is back and hopefully, he can get everybody to shape up and start taking things a little bit more seriously.
MAKE SURE THIS HOUSE IS CLOSED OFF BEFORE SNOW FALLS, THAT'S ALL I AM ASKING FOR!!!