u/Correct_Sometimes

boy this is quite the grind. I know it can be done faster now by just progressing through expansions to secrets but expansion wise I'm only half way through EoD so I do skyscale stuff until I hit a wall with either the 2 hours Gorrik timer or stuck waiting on some event to spawn then go back to EoD until I can continue. I know it was worse originally when instead of the 2 hour timer it was waiting for the next daily reset, but still. I just got to "troublesome skyscales" yesterday.

I think part of what makes it more annoying in my case is I returned after like nearly 10 years of not playing and have been playing a boosted level 80 character and the level 80 boost that comes with expansions is actually pretty terrible. Not having any map waypoints throughout Tyria is such a pain in the ass. lvl 80 boosts should come with some amount of waypoints across all the base zones. at least 1 per area or something

I've been talking to a recruiter about that kind of job for a commercial real estate firm, but in a newer office of theirs that is growing. They've had PM's in that office doing the estimating but it's gotten to the point where they need someone dedicated.

I come from the sub world, not GC. Specifically solid surfaces and working with millworkers a lot and from what I'm told it's similar to what I currently do in that it's is high volume quoting of a smaller projects 2M or less.

Just curious what it's like from that side if anyone has experience.

Obviously not something you really ever want to do but my boss has done it twice in the last couple years to jobs I won. 1 of those times was him being a complete fucking moron and the 2nd one is going on now and fully justified IMO, but still sucks.

1st job- ~$200k job. Very basic job with nothing crazy and very good margins. Only thing that sucked was it was on a military base. Boss was convinced we wouldn't have the man power available to do it and told the GC this and said they should give the job to someone else so he was "not at risk of letting them down later by being unable to meet the scheudle". I fought him on this decision as much as I could but he turned it down anyway. The projected scheudle time came around and we were slow for a month and a half. Sure would have been nice to have a $200k job to work on right about then.....

2nd job - ~$165k job. Out of state GC we never worked with before. Job is also on a military base. Our owner spoke to the GC when contracts were being signed to get in writing that they would allow invoicing of stored materials for a total of ~$55k. Since they are a new GC we never worked with before he wanted to at least be sure we get paid for materials in order to easily pay our own vendors. Payment terms were agreed on at net 45 days. Well we're up to 90ish days now and no payment has been made. We've already paid our vendors so we're upside down on that. The GC won't respond to any emails about it. The PM just blows smoke up our ass when questioned on the phone but the assistant PM will respond the payment emails telling us we're "released for production" (which doesn't even make sense since that's not how it works. The site isn't even ready for field dimensions to be taken yet). So now our owner is ready to do whatever he has to do to end the contract and get out of the job. If this is how they communicate and handle paying on the front end when they still need us to perform work what are we supposed to think will happen when the job is done and there's that 1 final invoice out there?

I'm returning for the first time since 2017 and while I own heart of thorns and path of fire from having bought them on release I never actually played through them and I own nothing after. I made a new character, boosted to 60 with a scroll I had in the stash. leveled 60-80 normally then jumped right into Heart of Thorns. .

there is a "F2P guardian" build that I was going to use until I have enough hero points to do something with firebrand but the guide says to use sword/focus. Except in game it says I can't use a sword unless I'm willbender, which is very much not F2P?

so like..huh?

how often do expansions go on sale? i decided to come back to the game with friends and to get caught up on expansions it's $105 and I'm being told they were 35% until 2 days ago...RIP me, I guess. I already own heart of thorns and path of fire but nothing after

why?

Because not 1 fucking architect/designer/whoever can make a room finish schedule that is actually consistent with the rest of the drawings.

4 material specs used on the same project for the same general scope - room finish scheudle only has spec mentioned for 80% of the rooms - sometimes it has multiple for the same room because why not - elevations have no material call outs. Section details have material call outs that conflict with the room finish scheudle. random note on page bumfuck says to use ___ in "locations" but that "location" doesnt even make sense because nothing in in the job seems to obviously fit that category or it too conflicts with the room finish scheudle.

it's really easy for someone to say "just follow the room finish scheudle" until doing so becomes inconvenient and costly later.

but hey, don't worry they took the time to draw and callout where the phone and copier will sit in the copy/print room. The things that the employees can/will just move around to wherever they feel it's most convenient for their every day use once the space is open. Good thing you showed that it will sit 30" from the right wall and did whole callout thing to say "phone". No one knows what's going on in this room in terms of actual work but thank god we know there will be a phone there when we're done.

fucking kill me, man

got the game like 1-2 weeks ago. Played folktail and ironteeth to about the same point.

60-70 population, zip lines/tube ways connecting major locations. bad tides automatically diverted off the map, enough water and food to survive droughts.

despite that there are all kinds of things still locked behind science points that I just haven't needed/cared about/been able to unlock yet and other than the aesthetics or overall layout and footprint of my colony there's really nothing that I feel like needs to be done anymore. There are no more problems to solve unless I create my own problems by expanding. So I end up just sitting there directionless staring at the screen thinking what i could do next and never coming up with anything that serves a purpose beyond "just because"

time to vent. I estimate for a solid surface fabricator.

I've worked at this company for 12 years. 7 of which as estimator. My boss was the general operations manager when I was hired. Then he became VP. Then he bought the company from the previous owner(overall this was good. the previous owner was a complete moron). Up until he became owner he was easy to work for and was a very reasonable boss. He became owner and switch got flipped in his brain I guess and now he's got a new way to piss me off with petty time wasting bullshit every. single. day.

We are primarily doing commercial work bidding to spec to Millworkers and GC's. Our bread and butter projects are in the $50k-300k size. Sometimes residential work comes around or some smaller GC has a job where they don't have a specific spec, but they have a look they're trying achieve. like "I want something grey & white" or "I need something black"

Sometimes these jobs are barely worth doing. Like $5k total in work. Dinky things you knock out in 1-2 days, get paid immediately, and move on. I can spit out a proposal for it in 30 seconds and move on to an actual meaningful bid. But for some reason he gets so boned up over these tiny bullshit jobs all because there's no spec and wants me to spend countless hours going back and forth with someone trying to sell them on materials we have on hand even if they don't meet the initial request just because it might mean we won't have to spend $800 or whatever. It's so fucking infuriating. Like some residential person comes to me and says "I don't have a color selection but I know I want white or gray" and my boss is like "pitch them this" and I have to go "they want white or gray and this is brown, it's not even close to what they want." his response is always just some variation of "so what"

Then he goes on some rant about how I need to "put my sales hat on" in these scenarios. How about my sales hat is listening to the customer and giving them what they ask for rather than trying to steer them towards whatever saves us pennies. I try to treat customers the way I want to be treated as a customer and that's not having my request disregarded in favor of something else entirely

I've gotten to the point where I tell him I pitched whatever he said but they chose something else when in reality I didn't, I just priced what the god damn customer came to me asking for and got the job secure in less than half the effort.