Still, the weekend was not all bad. We took the kids to see Marvel Universe Live. Everyone enjoyed the show.
That's cool, glad to hear you liked, it.
I have an associate who is IN that show. (Fellow SAFD (Society of American Fight Directors) member)
Sadly, I have not gotten to SEE the show,... :P
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One of the client's arrived yesterday. So far, he's created more problems than he's solved. And you know a project is f!~*ed up when two different types of drawing show two different piping configurations and you get different responses from different members of the client company as to which configuration is correct.
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Fabrication Company: Let's have morning meetings to go over the punch list and knock out these problems, so we can move forward with assembly.
Client: I like that idea.
Next day Fabrication Company: Let's push that morning meeting back until after lunch.
Client:.....
Oh, yeah, the client went back to Dallas.
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I heard the project manager at this fabrication yard admit to his co-worker they should never have taken on the project I'm working on with them.
Well, s!~$! I could have told him that after the first day or two I was here. They were woefully underprepared (not entirely their fault) for how difficult this job would be. Couple that with the sudden explosion in other work, and they are extremely low on the resources needed to finish.
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In somewhat good news, the fabrication yard actually did make some progress over the weekend. They reinstalled a bunch of piping (which had been removed a week or so before for other reasons), and actually worked through at least two other items on the punch list, while starting to work on a third item.
Unfortunately, they also generated two new items (one of which has already been resolved), and once again seem to have stopped work.
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The Stache just walked in. That's my nickname for one of the other gents sharing this third party office area with me. Curly was, as usual, already here when I arrived this morning. Curly has been joined this morning by some new guy. Not sure if it's short or long term, but if he's going to be around longer, I'll have to come up with a name for him as well.
Since I don't care about learning their real names.
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It's amazing what can happen when you find someone who actually cares about the job she is doing.
Here at the fabrication yard yesterday, I had cause to interact with the delightful new Materials Manager (basically, their shipping and receiving boss). First up, the project manager claims he had asked S&R several times to move two pallets related to the project over to the assembly area. When I asked the Materials Manager myself, the pallets were moved within half an hour. Then she helped me locate several items I'd had trouble finding.
Like I said, a delightful woman.
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So, when this current project started, I was told the fabrication shop would be moving to a bigger facility sometime in the fall. At the time, I didn't care much, because by then we were supposed to be done. That was, of course, almost 2 months (and multiple schedule delays) ago.
Now, not only have they started moving into the new facility, but I was told starting tomorrow they would be moving my client's first unit (still be assembled) over to the new facility. The second unit will probably be assembled there as well.
The only thing that really bugs me about this is it means one or more days where everything for the first unit is being moved and no actual work is being done to finish assembly.
Read what you write? Since when? I just tend to ignore you.
j/k.
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Fabrication Yard on Tuesday: "Hey! We're going to move the assembly of these units over to our new facility. The prep work will start tonight, and we'll start actually moving stuff tomorrow."
Me on Tuesday: "Hmmm....no prep work was done. Hey, Fab Yard! Is this going to happen today?"
Fabrication Yard on Wednesday: "Hey! We're going to move the assembly of these units over to our new facility. The prep work will start tonight, and we'll start actually moving stuff tomorrow."
Me on Tuesday: "Hmmm....no prep work was done. Hey, Fab Yard! Is this going to happen today?"
Rinse and repeat.