Well look how time flies, Novembers over, college applications have been sent and we even got a new teacher. Not much has happened mentorship wise unfortunately, they were closed on Black Friday. I would upload some photos but I had some problems with the last post in which I did that, the rest of my blog got cut off.
This month in my mentorship I learned a big lesson on the importance of contract stipulation. My company had two contracts with someone to build two parking lots. The first job was one day away from breaking ground all was well but unfortunately a dispute broke out over the second contract. EarthTek agreed to to the job for 12 million based off the boring report given to all the bidders. But Later the found out that the job would be much more extensive due to the true nature of the soil. They would not be able to make a profit with the 12 million dollar contract so the asked for more money to complete the job. This angered their buyer who believed that EathTek should have accounted for this, so a very lively conference call broke out, it was quite the spectacle. After hours of heated debate the buyer pulled BOTH contracts from EarthTek, it was quite the blow. EarthTek lost two good jobs and moral was low in the office. I was then told by my mentor how important reading the boring reports as well as the contract really is. I will start focusing my research more in the contract part of my mentorship seeing how important it is first hand.
In other news I may also go to a job site soon and see how things are done out in the field. Lots of modern machines are used in grading these days making the need for workers slim. It would be nice to get some pictures. Anyway thats all i have to report this month.
-Joseph Mirabal
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