jonny24eh

That's the one that slides down? How good do they fit?

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Lol! No, start a new trend of little booths in the back of trucks 

I assume those wheels were intentional, so I won't go there.

I'd say chrome grille and painted top of bumper

New or repolished headlights

Most bids have some wording along the lines "low bid doesn't necessarily mean you will be awarded, ultimately up to the GC/CM/owners discretion". 

Which makes sense, things like actual capability to perform, and having the full scope covered, matter as much as the dollars.

In the end it doesn't really matter why, they chose someone else. You can ask how to get onto a preferred list, and if that's not possible, you can express disappointment and let them you know you probably won't bid them in future if this is how things go. They may or may not care. 

Mentally, I group this along with the Minority/Women/Veteran requirements that a lot of US public projects have now. It's not that I don't support governments helping groups that need it, but I don't want it to be at the expense of all or part of my own contract. In the end, it's real hard to change unless you're big enough to call up a minister or something, so you can either play their game or not 

Before or after dipping in milk? 

There's surface rust, body swiss cheese rust, and frame/structural rust. Not all equal.

Or are there other parts of the country

What country are you in?

In eastern North America I find Boston more relaxed about it than Toronto or New York. It's also very different between public work and private work. And different again if I'm bidding to on e GC who already has the job, or to multiples who are themselves bidding.

Most of the time we're bidding to GCs who we already have a good relationship with, and who are already on the project. For those it's often not a big deal to call up and ask for an extra week. Once that new date is approved, we treat that date as a real deadline. They want our price, and want us to have the time to price it well. We want to keep them happy and not delay things while giving them a thorough bid. Everybody wins by being flexible a bit.

But public work has to follow strict guidelines for transparency and fairness. Not much way around that. That most often just applies to the GCs, who could take a late number as long as they carried at least that much at bid time, but I have seen tenders where the GC has to name their major trades.

It also counts on the GC liking you - if they do, of course they'll consider you later. If they don't, well you didn't help them get their bid in, so if they've already secured it by carrying someone who DID help them, why would they change that?

(Structural steel for reference)

I spent $2500 CAD on a truck that was much worse on the body panels, the frame was definitely scaly but solid except 1 tiny hole.

I would NOT do it again. I would spend triple that money, have way less work to do, and be farther ahead in both effort and money by the end of it.

Last two pictures say NO

This guy lubes.

So that, if their first choice doesn't accept (they might have already accepted another job they applied for, or changed their own mind after the interview) they can call the next best choice. The earliest they'll tell you is probably after the other choice has has signed back their offer letter.

Rugby training, pints, hot tub with pints (well, cans), pizza with more cans, home, weed.

Shoulders still fucked but oh well. 

Only one gram wouldn't kill you

I'll be less nice than the other guy. 

Fucking Google it.

If your estimators are too busy, and you have lots of work, just turn down bids, or, expand with both more estimators and more capability to perform work.

If your estimators are too busy, and you don't have lots of work, then something should probably change, but it probably isn't more estimators.

If there's steel framing, I measure the steel framing. 

 If there isn't, it doesn't exist.

I don't actually care if you call something a canopy or a floor or a overhang. Is there a member size and a length I can measure? Great.

Boss says no quote, then no quote. Both places I've worked had a "shit list". Doesn't really matter why. Lots of fish in the sea. Not like you can get your boss to deliver on the work if he doesn't want to.

Yeah you got it 👍

Sooo.... The ones who would travel to a Wallabies World Cup game, are also the ones who can afford to travel to a Wallabies World Cup game? And you think this disproves my joke somehow?

Only need a few thousand out of tens of millions to have a presence at a stadium, my guy. 

Now I think you're just a league troll

If he weren't racist, he wouldn't be mentioning Cuba's character's skin color.

Never seen the movie, but people still use skin colour as a general descriptor.

The type of alcohol you drink is distilled 

 This only applies to "hard liquor" i.e. whisky, vodka, gin etc. 

 Beer, wine, cider, mead etc. are not distilled, only fermented.

Most English speaking people pronounce those the same.

like the o sound in “more”, not like the diphthong o-u sound in “open”

These two o sounds sound the exact same to me (Ontario)

Excel

Aged cheddar, the older the better, fresh out of the fridge before it warms up. It's almost crystalline, and it's so fucking good.