Re: Business Question

Posted by Billy NY on June 06, 2008 at 10:01:33 from (205.188.117.74):

In Reply to: Business Question posted by Tom B...IN on June 06, 2008 at 04:29:11:

Somewhat related in the ethics department; about 10 years ago, while running a project, I discovered a huge mistake on an excavation contractors payment requisition, more or less a mathmatical error in our favor for something like $28,000.00, I forget the circumstances but it was one of those errors that concealed itself, was not easily noticed. This was a $1.8 million dollar contract. The contractor did excellent work, always submitted RFI's ( request for information) to solve problems, hustled to make the schedule, did some extras to the contract, pleasure to work with them, figured he'd have caught this mistake, I waited until the end to make mention of it, I wanted to see if they were going to catch it, never happened. So when getting close to the completion of that contract, I showed him the mistake, it was due to them and it was corrected and paid in full.

Now, there was no question as what was right to do here, and it was appreciated. Later on, as this building was nearing completion, city of new york d.o.t. came by and rescinded my on the street material storage permit temporarily, for a marathon or parade, all lanes of the route had to be clear, and they can do this with no notice. So another contractor had 40 cu.yds. of sand left over after doing a finish level coat on the precast concrete plank floors, they were not too good in the estimating dept I assume. 40 cu. yds. had to go immediately, called the excavation contractor, before I got off the phone, a backhoe and a truck was already on the way from another site and they removed all of it, no charge and I told him to bill me. Anytime I needed a truck or a favor, even today, I could call this guy up, years later I needed a truck for 1 day to shift expensive crates of glass on a job site to the other side of the job, dump body was perfect for crane to set them into, truck showed up, was not looking for a freebie either, no problem, just needed a truck, but our money was no good. Getting that sand out was a huge relief, d.o.t. would have had a field day with us over it, I dunno, mistakes happen, sometimes in your favor, always good to do the right thing.

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