Yikes
Gold Member
[inspired by my rant on another thread]
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Dear Plan Checker:
Thanks for all the meaningless standard correction notes that don't apply to my project. I realize you must get pretty jaded with all the stuff you've seen over the years.
I have tried to be a good architect and make sure I give you a complete set of plans. Heck, I even take your published standard correction lists and do my own internal "pre-plan check" prior to our submittal, just to check and make sure our plans completely address all your typical concerns from the start.
So, here's my request to you - - if you don't really intend to take your job seriously and LOOK AT THE PLANS until the backcheck meeting, then please, don't waste valuable calendar days in the development process - - just let me know so I can play the game too:
Six weeks earlier, I can hand in a half-baked set of plans that you won't read anyway, and then I'll finish off the real plans between now and backcheck. That way, we can give a *wink* to the formality of initial plan check, the real work will get done at backcheck, and the overall development process stays on schedule, even though we wasted each other's time and our client's money.
Heck, maybe we can give this charade a positive spin, perhaps calling it "fast track".
; )
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OK, I'd like to think that if you come to this forum, you already care enough about your own work and professionalism that this rant doesn't apply to you. I'm sure you've got some of your own rants for architects. Bring it!
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Dear Plan Checker:
Thanks for all the meaningless standard correction notes that don't apply to my project. I realize you must get pretty jaded with all the stuff you've seen over the years.
I have tried to be a good architect and make sure I give you a complete set of plans. Heck, I even take your published standard correction lists and do my own internal "pre-plan check" prior to our submittal, just to check and make sure our plans completely address all your typical concerns from the start.
So, here's my request to you - - if you don't really intend to take your job seriously and LOOK AT THE PLANS until the backcheck meeting, then please, don't waste valuable calendar days in the development process - - just let me know so I can play the game too:
Six weeks earlier, I can hand in a half-baked set of plans that you won't read anyway, and then I'll finish off the real plans between now and backcheck. That way, we can give a *wink* to the formality of initial plan check, the real work will get done at backcheck, and the overall development process stays on schedule, even though we wasted each other's time and our client's money.
Heck, maybe we can give this charade a positive spin, perhaps calling it "fast track".
; )
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OK, I'd like to think that if you come to this forum, you already care enough about your own work and professionalism that this rant doesn't apply to you. I'm sure you've got some of your own rants for architects. Bring it!