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Still mad I found out our lead drafter has been eyeballing all his dims instead of scaling prints
Was going through old project files from a job in Denver last year and noticed every single one of his measurements was off by 1/8 to 1/4 inch. Dude never used a scale ruler, just held it up and guessed. How do you even work in this trade for 15 years and not know how to scale properly?
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patricia_gonzalez3d ago
Yeah that tracks with something I've noticed lately. People just eyeball everything in construction and life now, like rules and measurements are optional suggestions. @mia700 probably saw that spit-glue guy because nobody bothers learning the basics anymore, they just wing it and call it "experience." It's the same reason you see contractors pacing off footings instead of using a tape measure or why people hang pictures by stabbing at the wall until it looks straight. There's this whole culture of "close enough" that's taken over skilled work and somehow that's supposed to be fine. Eventually all those little guesses add up to a house that's crooked or a project that doesn't fit together, and then everyone acts surprised.
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