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MORE SECRETS OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY:
Back in 2001 when I was an employee at this construction company our boss would come every 3 hours to the jobsite and push us to "work faster", to get the job finished in as little as possible.
At other times he will bring us coffee and donuts and sit down to talk to us.... our 15 mins. breaks became 1 hr long sometimes. He told us to take it "easy" and "go slow, don't hurt yourself going fast".
I was dumbfounded at this contradiction and asked my foreman WTF is going on here? My foreman explained it to me:
"When we get a 'closed' contract project, they pay us in advance, so if they pay us $500,000 for a job, our boss pushes us to finish fast because with each day that passes he loses $10,000 in wages and equipment rental"
"But if we get an 'open ended' contract (the government usually does this) we are paid by day basis..... so we earn $24/hr but our boss charges the gov't $45/hr, so if he has 20 workers he's making almost $1,000 an hour profit, so the longer we take the more money we make"
One time we got a contract from the government for a driveway paving that should had taken 2 days to finish in a "closed contract", but because the canadian government loves giving money away they agreed to a "open ended" contract. We spent more than a week there doing nothing, like 15 guys.
Your tax dollars at work.
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