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None of this adds up. Your neighbor sounds right about this, especially about the constructing a new one part.

Please say you didn't sign anything, did you? <---- This is huge.

His replacement costs don't add up.
$10,000 / 308 = $32.47 per square foot for a shed, large or otherwise. In the midwest, this doesn't add up.

This one is 12 x 20 and fully finished on the outside to look good.$4,499.00 Then you could probably add some smaller ones as needed.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Best-Barns-Easton-12-ft-x-20-ft-Wood-Storage-Shed-Kit-easton-1220/202957610
I get that doesn't include labor but .... Wow.

His demo ideas don't add up

Is the whole building really that bad that you'd have to demo it all? The whole thing, and none of it could be reused or saved? There isn't a part of it that could be kept? You say stuff like "side roof areas?" That makes me think it isn't just one big barn but it has sections? None of those sections can be saved, or the materials? The whole roof (only 6 years old) is trash? I haven't seen the place, but woah. And there's no cause like a tree falling on it or something? Either it was built like crap before that if it fell apart in only 6 years or something's up.

I'm liking the neighbor's repair guy more and more as I hear this.

Guy is telling you he'll give you materials at cost? He's quoting you in hours and the question is how much he charges per hour. If he hasn't talked about that yet, then he doesn't seem to want to. You said he'll do the roof patch at 3 to 4 hours labor? That's how you can figure it out if you have him do that part. Whatever the materials are minus whatever he charges you for labor divided by 3 or 4. Roughly.

I'm honestly surprised you got anyone to come out Christmas week, much less two people. The good news is I bet nobody is going to bug you about it until at least new years as long as it's safe (if it just looks bad), unless they're a jerk. If they do, I'd give them the repair guy's name and tell them you're getting money together to pay for it. Also, it is December, and they should probably understand that getting construction work done in the winter isn't quick or easy.

That first contractor worries me. This all depends on you not having signed anything. If you did, then you might be screwed, depending on what you signed. If you didn't then you might want to very politely tell him you're going with someone else instead. You don't wanna piss this contractor guy off, or he might decide to make trouble reporting you to whoever is the building and zoning inspector. Also, it's generally not a good idea to be mean if you can avoid it. It's a timing thing whether and when to tell him and it depends on a few things like if there's nothing signed and when the other guy can get this done (you mentioned Jan?).

Yeah. See, that's from a doctor. So I'm basically going to make up an excuse not to go. Looking for a decent one.

I dunno about that, but my arm hurt for 3 days and on the second jab I got somewhat flu like symptoms. Not bad, and screw it, and better than COVID any day.

Car towed. $290 impound fee I cant really afford. So its 300. Got my car back though. I was told there was a fire hydrant, but there isn't one anywhere on that street. At fucking all. So I guess I'm just fighting the ticket, but who knows if I get the impound fee back. I just guess probably not. There is no hydrant or any kind of water hookup on that street anywhere near where I parked. Just for several blocks there isn't anything. No sign. No anything. Just car not where I parked it. Just a blank parking space when I come back. Other people park there. Sure, Im not camping there, but never seen anyone else have any problem.

So the ticket is a couple hundred on top of the impound fee. That just sucks. So like $600 plus something, and court costs if I fight it. So like $700 $800 something. It would have been more at $15 per day if I could not scrape up the impound release fee. That's like $105 per week. This is bullshit. I thankfully have a job, but so no public defender. I don't know if they do that anyhow. More stress great.

Weird family situation:

I am an adult and thankfully pretty independent from my parents. I have a home, car, and phone that has nothing to do with them. They have tons of drama and what little connection I have with them has them dragging me back into that.

My mom and dad are older, and they were quite abusive and the family is pretty broken up. We don't talk much at all. 90% of us cannot see each other or even spend holidays together. I do come around to see my parents, but not a whole lot. I guess dad has been having some memory problems. He's over 70. Sometimes he has what I am calling word finding difficulty (he does not remember what things are called sometimes), remembering the name of some things. I've been told a doctor said he can still drive, etc.

My parents seem to have known about this memory situation for a year and told me nothing. My one older adult sister, seems to have been filled in, between her hitting them up for money. My mom knows of and seems to be ok with her doing this. Whatever. It's just odd, and I'm slightly worried she's exploiting them a bit. I was kept in the dark on all of this, and she seems to keep getting "loans," and one of my parents seems to be having memory issues. Also I told my dad not to make her the executor of his will and have his lawyer do it instead. I just flat out told him "I'm getting sick of saying I told you so," because guess what, she's the executor on the will. Only like, weeks ago did I get any information on my dad's medical condition. I didn't ask for any of it either....

My dad calls me a few minutes ago, says he's seeing a physician tomorrow. He did not make the appointment. He does not know if it is a psychologist, neurologist, or whatever, but he seems nervous/irritable. When explaining why, he states it is because he has been inside and unable to go anywhere from COVID for a year. Before, he always kept busy and active dealing with various car things. COVID basically killed that off. My mother is, frankly, untrustworthy. My dad has repeatedly talked of leaving her, and she him. This lovely scenario is possibly coming to a head, because dad seems to think she's trying to gain more control over money. She's been keeping the books for them, but frankly, she's done a bad job of that in the past.

Again, I have been told nothing about this until very recently. I have no idea what to tell dad. He is worried about speaking with the physicians concerning his memory issues. I do not know how severe things are. Last week I was told by my mom and dad that he was ok in the memory department, and a CT did not show anything bad.

So, dramatic, abusive family gives conflicting result information (memory problems and BAD, then switches to "not so bad"), and its always fun to be thrown into a possible divorce situation (Assuming he's not just talking again, or even could/would leave her). I know there aren't any lawyers here (T seems to be pretty gone and I can't seem to get her to come back), and I don't think that'd work out anyhow.

What the hell do I do emotionally, and otherwise to process this?
Mom and sister are possibly being sneaky, and/or stupid? Possible financial exploitation? Possible inappropriate influence? Possible real memory issues with dad vs. he's stressed like hell from quarantining through COVID. All of this with possibility of their divorce (seems they've talked about this a couple times over the last year).

Also, it appears my team is "too productive."

They are going to be slowing us down and cutting us back to "even out the work." I'm sorry, WTF?

Some of our units from that large thing I posted about are going to be reassigned, but we are backdoor organizing just getting tons of them done ASAP so they are done before they take them away. We are the most productive team in the place. So, we are not slacking to create that pile of units. We're just evidently that good.

Somehow this is a "concern." I have no idea why this is the case in this instance that it is a "concern," meaning "problem." Everything "T" taught me about pulling myself out of the damn gutter was about being productive and efficient and here's the higher ups saying that's a "concern" now. They beat productivity into us FOREVER, and now it's an issue?

I'm "too productive," but also worried about having work.... So much for bootstraps and pulling yourself up by them or whatever. What the #$@% is this? Told to slow down, then speed up so it doesn't get taken away.

How am I both worried about having work but "too productive." ....

Hi.

I know I haven't posted on this thread for a bit, but it's a decent thread and I've gotten some helpful advice from some of the more experienced people here like "T" and Birdy, etc (there are a lot and I can't type you call but I'm grateful). Plus, honestly COVID has messed up my schedule just terribly, so if anyone is wondering about timing....

Speaking of timing, I've got some weird stress because I do not know how to tell my immediate supervisor something about a new situation that's developed with our productivity pipeline at work. Big issue, we are not adapting well to new changing metrics and a hopefully temporary road block that has come up. What we work on is divided into "units," and we need to more carefully manage these. I have no idea how to approach this with my boss to help him manage it better (for all of our sakes and I do not want to come off as out of my lane/place, etc.).

We had a massive damn backlog forever and we are finally clearing that up soon. Basically forever (years), we've had a sort of system in place where you were supposed to do a certain amount of "units" per week and you were rated at how many you did. More was better. This scale tops out at 15 units per week, and that is considered just freaking amazing.

That backlog is going away, and management is switching to a more time sensitive approach instead of productivity. So now they've added a new metric: % of units done within 60 days of assignment. The higher your percentage of units done within 60 days of assignment the better. They are allegedly going to get rid of the numbers requirement, but we'll see. Point is, the stuff is now time sensitive within 60 days of ASSIGNMENT.

Yesterday, my supervisor called me. He has completely run himself out of work for right now. We are the most productive team in the whole damn place and actually people (Including higher ups) are sort of ... low key upset at us for it. We are not getting assigned new "units" for right now. He does not know what to do with himself, because he processes those units before I/the rest of us do. Coworker and I have a personal assignment log of about 130 units each. However, they seem to have cut our team off "to balance us out with the rest of the teams." My boss has stated that we no longer have to keep up a breakneck pace, and that we have proved ourselves and should not run ourselves out of cases to "cut off our nose to spite our face." He has told me to slow down in this phone call because we can't run out of cases like this with the backlog going away and there is a temporary kink in the supply line (COVID).

OK, PROBLEM. Math.... New 60 day assignment deadline....
Division: 137/60 days = 2.28.
Division: 137/2 (months) = 68.5 per month....
68.5/4 (weeks) is about 17.125/week.

*The unit per week scale tops out at 15, but in order to get the stuff assigned currently we'd have to do over 17/week.

*This at a time when he's saying to slow down to stretch out work so we don't temporarily run out of it....

Slow down (but keep going faster)?
The management has told him we are not getting new units for a while to "balance us out" against the other teams....

Supervisor seems to be coming realizing (after he ran himself out of work) that we need to ration this a bit and spread it out to avoid burnout/runout of work (for a bit before they do it all over again). However, he is still devoted to the First in First Out, assigning it all right away.

He does not understand (or want to understand) that HE controls the assignments and he could plan this out so we stretch out the units as he is hinting at/saying on the phone (not in writing). I have no idea how to tell him this or suggest how to fix it.

If he actually wanted to smooth out these massive waves and valleys, he could assign X amount per worker per week and just sit on them for a little bit (like a week or whatever, these things have been sitting for about 4 years, and one more week isn't going to kill anything). Then he would end up with worker A assigned ... 10 per week, worker B assigned 10, etc, etc. That way we could work within the 60 day deadline and spread them out like he is saying. As of right now, I have 137 to do in the next 60 days, and as above, that is like 17/week. Co workers have about the same.

This is a fixable problem if he would just assign them to plan out a work week. He controls when they are assigned. He can set the date the assignment starts the 60 day clock. As it stands, my coworkers and I are going to have no choice but to disobey either him or the 60 day deadline, because we can't slow down and still meet the 60 day deadline at the same time. We did not create this problem. This is an administrative hiccup and we are the most productive team in the place that is being told to slow down (not given new units so we even out with the other teams). I suspect we also cannot "officially do anything" like slowing down work, even though everyone does it, because otherwise we end up with huge stop/start problems. I mean, even the management higher ups are upset and cutting us off from new units for a while to "balance us out." The unofficial nature of this policy/practice is something we can't say, but must do like everyone else. I can't go from doing 17/week for 2 months to 0 per week for ... 1 or 2 months? We need to adapt to this COVID hiccup.

I have no idea how to approach my boss about this. I do not want to be seen as stepping on his toes or otherwise not be respectful or something. I also can't "officially" do or suggest this (even though he unofficially told me to over the phone like I'm pretty sure everyone else is doing so there's nothing in writing). We have to be smart about this, because as things stand, a.) this is unworkable, b.) everyone is upset at us even some of the higher ups (cutting us off from getting new work units given to us to do, and c.) this will bite us later on.

How in the hell do I deal with this? I've seen (if you've read the thread parts before) angry customers, "Karens" demanding impossible things, etc. I have never had to deal with trying to guide my boss into doing something that will save the damn team (or at least fend off ruin for a bit). I can't do 17/week (or more) and the scale tops out at 15 anyhow, while slowing down to spread stuff out so we don't run out and look awful. (This isn't my job anyhow, and I don't get paid for this level of stuff but I can't let it mess us up bad).

How on earth to I approach this? Thank you for your consideration.

Edit: To be clear, supervisor could click a button, to "unassign" the unit, then click another button to "reassign" the unit and restart the 60 day clock over and solve this whole thing. Or just stagger out assignments....

Do you have anything easy to read that is preferably accessible online and if possible free?

I don't know, but I probably should read a bit more and maybe we all should.

Splint off soon. If the occupational therapy does not work, rhen surgery.