Work bitch.
Occasionally an engineer I work with a lot can really irritate me. First, engineers should never assume how long a task/project should take me and make promises to the client. Second, never make promises without FUCKING TALKING TO ME.
Tuesday about 5pm he gives me a project he wants to submit to the city yesterday afternoon. It's well over a days worth of work. So after working pretty much from before 5am until 4, I told him the client could fuck off, I'm done for the day. And then I run into more complications because every single project has unforeseen complications, which goes back to rules 1 and 2.
It's a stupid simple job. Repaving a huge business complex down south with random repairs. But they just got sued because not every single sidewalk curb ramp or crossslope of sidewalks is ADA compliant. And I mean by a cunt hair. 2% max cross slope on a sidewalk so the crippies don't fall sidewalks. We have a half ass survey that shows it's 2.2% in some areas. Some of the sidewalk ramps are 3.5' wide instead of 4' minimum. Very nit picky shit for a lawsuit. So I start to regrade the parking and concrete to make it work for the wheelers. Except the parking spots aren't ADA compliant either, gotta be 12' wide. They have to be widened, which makes those 5' wide striped areas for the loading zone by H/C spaces not line up with the sidewalks. Sidewalks can't be moved because of big fucking trees. A total cluster fuck with no good solution and not a call I can make.
This type of shit that we don't see until I actively work on it is why you don't make fucking promises.
Last night when I told him I'd finish it in the morning, I told the client we'd submit THIS MORNING. Of course I run into the above issue and now he'll have lied to his client again because he keeps making stupid promises we can't guarantee we can fulfill.
