"Do you realize we are sometimes managing up to 13 jobs at the same
time??"

Ken and other general contractors:

Question for you, for the people managing projects, are they taking on
up to 13 different projects. (Other than yourself of course)

I wonder what the dividing line is between keeping busy and not being
able to meet basic obligations. This pondering is a legitimate question
and not a back handed comment. In construction, whether its preservation
or not, a major part of the process is to let others that are in the
project based relationship know what is a normal response time and what
is not. We all realize that occasionally a quick (unreasonable) response
times is necessary but we try to not let them become the norm. In our
contracting business, Dell Corp., we try very hard to keep others
informed as to what to expect, not always successful but usually. I must
clarify that we use very few subcontractors in our type of work so that
it is much easier to accomplish than it would be for a general
contractor. We know this because we use to do general contracting.
However, when involved in general contracting we never allowed the
command chain to put one person in a position to work-on/hold-up 13
projects. (If we were going to hold up a project, we did if the right
way, we assigned someone to the task and allowed them to focus on that.
-joke-joke)

Bryan