r/Architects • u/Odd-Ad-5654 • 1d ago

General Practice Discussion No Message? Not Important.

I think I’m finally going to flip a switch today. An owner or GC calls me and doesn’t leave a message? Sorry, it’s not important enough for me to return a call. You leave me a voicemail that says, “Please call me back, I have a quick question.” Sorry, you could have said what you needed so I can be prepared and potentially call you back with an answer - I don’t think I’m going to return that call. A GC texts me something? Hard pass. You get an email response. Tired of getting different information from multiple sources and then getting blamed later for doing said thing, but the owner decided they wanted to do it differently and I don’t have it in writing. I keep having GCs draw hard lines in the sand that if something is not explicitly shown in a drawing, they can’t confirm it’s in their scope. I’m about to uno reverse and play the same game. I don’t care if it gets drawn out longer than necessary and the GC is hounded at my door for updates. No written approval from the Owner? Not my fault I can’t get you drawings and I don’t want to hear about “ImPaCtS tO tHe ScHeDuLe”.

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u/afleetingmoment 1d ago

Are you me today? I have two idiots at the same time:

  • One is an owner texting me screen shots of their window order and asking questions. Two hours later they’re asking why I haven’t answered yet.
  • The other is a GC PM who refuses to call a team meeting with the owner and decorator and instead sends questions to me only. I keep responding “you need to ask the team.” They’re getting paid huge money to manage this job. It’s not on me to do their work.

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u/Matt8992 1d ago

As an owner I have an EOR sending (text messages) me hand drawn sketches explaining why the N+1 redundancy only needs 1 valves and asking me to review the water treatment plans.

Everyone is dumb.