I just got done spending my first week away from my family. Last Sunday night I left York Pennsylvania to head to hillside New Jersey. GCM, the company that I work for, has a Wendy’s project that we are working on.
I’ve had the privilege to be learning from one of our superintendents. I’m learning what it means to be a superintendent on a job site and what it looks like to project manage with a group of subcontractors.
As we began to demo the Wendys, that we are working on, I quickly learned the importance of doing a job right. Over the course of many years this Wendy’s has had many different changes. The contractors who went before us did not do their job completely. They took shortcuts and I’m sure their bids for low cost. The problem is the store was a mess. Our electricians could not believe how this store has been wired over the course of many years. It literally looked like a tangled mess.
I’m very proud of the sub contractors who GCM has working for them. As we tore apart this Wendy’s not one of them was happy with the quality of work that went before them. Each of them is determined to fix the issues of concern that have gone before them. Each of them wants to do the job right.
The unfortunate part for each of our subcontractors means that this will cost them it will cost them time effort and money to fix the mistakes and do the job right.
Doing the job right. Not taking shortcuts. This is teaching me a lot about life and the fact that there is a cost for doing it right there’s a cost to live right.
If you’re going to do something do it right and others will be thankful.
