Having someone monitor the damn weeds for the next 5 years adds up too. :rolleyes:

Is that S.O.P. or is all that different than any other roadway project? Does anyone here know?

I would guess it's SOP for any construction in areas designated for environmental protection, but that's just a guess.

Good guess, and that's the problem.
Every one of these construction projects has the same problem as every pentagon materials buy. They are so steeped in SOP, needed or not, it triples the cost of everything. It makes everything so expensive many things that should be done, and could be done simply for a reasonable cost and within a reasonable time frame, simply don't get done.
Well, they don't get done until something tragic happens anyway.

Ahhhh - thats another unforeseen cost - the glatts err, lawyers. Risk of suits and all.

errr, what is SOP?

Standard Operating Procedure

ahhh, OK, thanks classic.

I am HOPING that Obama puts an end to SOP. He has vowed to cut waste, and that sounds like a lot of money going out simply because contractors have always gotten away with it. Just because something is being paid for by the govenment doesn't mean contractors should get a blank check. They have gotten away with robbing us blind for decades. It's time for that to stop. And Obama said as much in a speech he made not too long ago. so yea Obama!

The other night we were discussing at work why the man-hours per unit has crept up better than 5k. Basically it's because the customer is demanding the place look like no work is being done, 100% of the time. After I retire I'll be able to expound at length. :mad:

This guy bailed.

Freddie Mac Exec Found Dead At Home
David Kellermann, Acting Chief Financial Officer Of Embattled Mortgage Company, Dead In Apparent Suicide

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n4961169.shtml

I saw that. I wonder if had committed some kind of fraud or something and he couldn't live with it anymore. That's what came to my mind. Of course, it could have absolutely nothing to do with that. He could just be depressed because his relationship was tanking or something.

Of course, he's now on the right wingers' Obama Death List.

Did he know the Clintons?


just add him to the list.
j/k

It's his wifes fault, she said she wanted a man that's hung.

*groan*