The first part while crazy is so true. I know someone who drove/merchandised for Dr. Pepper and they had they same thing. He drove way across town to buy Mountain Dew, or had his wife or family members do it for him.
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The first part while crazy is so true. I know someone who drove/merchandised for Dr. Pepper and they had they same thing. He drove way across town to buy Mountain Dew, or had his wife or family members do it for him.
Oh, for sure!
Yeah, and, also stupid, because if true could catch some heat from their employer for a dumb act like this, too!
Responsibility of the contractor, I wouldn't feel bad about it. ISU isn't paying for some dumba** to bury a flag from another school in the project, they are paying for a quality job done to specifications. Anything else is unacceptable, regardless of the cost to the contractor. Hire better employees.
This is pretty much how I feel about it. Is it really a big deal, probably not. At the same time, I wasn't paying for them to bury the flag of a rival school on my property. And as another poster mentioned, we are talking about a lot of money here, So the job should be done how I asked it to be done and not used as some stupid prank by one of your lacky employees.
If I was in a sour mood, I'd probably go to the contractor and tell them they need to prove to me that where and how it was buried wouldn't cause any issues with the sub base.
This is just stupid, and most likely a 99.9% chance it's not true. Why would an opposing team, who is used to getting "buried" on the court in Hilton Coliseum, also bury a flag there? Just idiotic.
Don't you bury things that are dead? Yep, I thought so. So Hawkeye basketball is dead then? Wait a minute, maybe it was a smart move since Hawkeye basketball is basically dead at this point.
Just a side note... there's no doubt that in the slight chance this is true, if they can find out who did it, they definitely should be fired. I don't care if it's an ISU flag, Iowa flag, blanket, towel, anything.... I wouldn't want my workers doing that kind of thing on my projects.
Don't you bury things that are dead? Yep, I thought so. So Hawkeye basketball is dead then? Wait a minute, maybe it was a smart move since Hawkeye basketball is basically dead at this point.
Just a side note... there's no doubt that in the slight chance this is true, if they can find out who did it, they definitely should be fired. I don't care if it's an ISU flag, Iowa flag, blanket, towel, anything.... I wouldn't want my workers doing that kind of thing on my projects.
I highly doubt it was buried in concrete. Pre-pour checks will get that and most inspectors won't want to take the heat for that.
Was it maybe thrown in the dirt as they were filling in or is it thrown under some asphalt as they were paving? It's possible. It'd be easy to do.
Also, guy probably won't get fired (unless they were already looking for a reason to fire him). Suspend him for a couple of days and call it good.
I'm sure there will be some mildly unpleasant conversations, but it'll be a fairly small non-event. Unless you know exactly where the flag was buried (i.e. have a picture of it), if you make the contractor go and dig up a bunch of work and find nothing, ISU is going to be paying for the work twice.
Side note: I dealt with a precaster in Massachusetts who had a hell of a time with their workers trying to slip red sox stuff into material destined for Yankee stadium.
Was it maybe thrown in the dirt as they were filling in or is it thrown under some asphalt as they were paving? It's possible. It'd be easy to do.
Also, guy probably won't get fired (unless they were already looking for a reason to fire him). Suspend him for a couple of days and call it good.
I'm sure there will be some mildly unpleasant conversations, but it'll be a fairly small non-event. Unless you know exactly where the flag was buried (i.e. have a picture of it), if you make the contractor go and dig up a bunch of work and find nothing, ISU is going to be paying for the work twice.
Side note: I dealt with a precaster in Massachusetts who had a hell of a time with their workers trying to slip red sox stuff into material destined for Yankee stadium.
I don't know what we ever did to deserve to get Georges as a Cyclone, but I'm forever grateful.
He's the best. So much better at putting into words exactly what I'm thinking than I can ever do.
So let me get this straight...
You brag that this is Hawkeye Country...you probably, at some point, proudly displayed this flag somewhere in Squawkville to your morally deprived Hawk friends, who similarly got prematurely excited all over it. Took it to numerous squaweye events to have something to cry in at the end of another Eastern Iowa U loss. Then, you take this treasure wherever you go because you treat it like Tom Hanks treated Wilson in Castaway. Like it's your only friend that you think talks back to you...only to take it to your work site...
...to bury it.
Wow...you pulled one over on us. Whew.
By burying the only friend you had.
clap...clap...clap.
You brag that this is Hawkeye Country...you probably, at some point, proudly displayed this flag somewhere in Squawkville to your morally deprived Hawk friends, who similarly got prematurely excited all over it. Took it to numerous squaweye events to have something to cry in at the end of another Eastern Iowa U loss. Then, you take this treasure wherever you go because you treat it like Tom Hanks treated Wilson in Castaway. Like it's your only friend that you think talks back to you...only to take it to your work site...
...to bury it.
Wow...you pulled one over on us. Whew.
By burying the only friend you had.
clap...clap...clap.
Give the worker a couple options. 1) pay to remove it. 2) fly (ISU will provide) an ISU flag at his house for the next ten years.
After reading thru some more posts:
1. Its not concrete, its asphalt.
2. It didn't cost thousands. It's the effing donor lot at Hilton, it's way beyond that.
3. If I was a supervisor at Manatts, I'd be really pissed. You dont post something on social media disrespecting your customer. Manatts has a plant in Ames, it was a stupid post.
1. Its not concrete, its asphalt.
2. It didn't cost thousands. It's the effing donor lot at Hilton, it's way beyond that.
3. If I was a supervisor at Manatts, I'd be really pissed. You dont post something on social media disrespecting your customer. Manatts has a plant in Ames, it was a stupid post.
Third point is it. As an employer, if I find out who it is, they’re fired whether it’s true or not. Could potentially cause irreparable damage to the reputation of the company.
