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A concrete worker, a chronic borrower, was pleading with a friend to give him $500. “I’ll return it when I get back from Florida.”
Exactly when are you coming back?”
The friend said,” Who’s going?”
On being a subcontractor: it's lonely at the top when there is no one at the bottom.
My partner has the worst handwriting. He wrote a note to all our new contractor's bookkeeper and handed it to her. She gave him all of the money.
Being a framer is like my Cub Scout days without the supervision.
An elderly man walked into an electrical contractor’s office. He said, “Can I talk to Steve Webster?” The manager said, “He is not here. He is at your funeral!"
High heel boots were invented for lady superintendents that didn’t want to step in it.
Subcontractors Lament: I believe in reincarnation. I have had other lives. I know. I have clues. First of all, I’m very tired.
Subs Observation: GCs are genetically screwed up. They don’t have a sympathy gene. You can break your ankle, crawl into their office and all your GC would mutter is, and “Shake a leg. Show goes on.”
  
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Regarding Shaky Warranties He is the kind of contractor who will always be there when he needs you.
There was this contractor who at the project's beginning told me that he would treat me just like family. Within a week he was howling and raging at me, "When are you going to be working like the rest of us."
On General contractor supervision: They usually have two managers on site except when they are busy elsewhere when they have none.
Two concrete finishers meet at the portolet while renovating a stadium. As one prepares to use the facilities, he accidentally drops a ten dollar bill in the hole.” Damn!” Unruffled, he gets another $20 and drops it in. The other carpenter says, “Why did you do that?” The finisher says, “I’m not going in there for anything less than $20.”
That GC makes money the American way. He trips over stuff and sues people.
Regarding Warranties: He is the kind of owner who will always be there when he needs you.
A collision occurs when two concrete truck drivers aim at the same obnoxious superintendent.
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