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Goose25
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23 Oct 2011, 9:19 am

Anyone else notice things that nobody else does, and go through the pitfalls it can cause in interactions? An example is in working with a friend to refinish some furniture. The duties were split, and my portion was last. As things are "handed off" to me, I find little areas that are not complete (or worse). And therein lies the dilemma - do you keep awkwardly mentioning things in a multi-piece project? Or do you double your portion of the duties and essentially end up doing the entire thing?



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23 Oct 2011, 9:41 am

I think teaching the other person about quality craftmanship will help them in the long run, but if you do it right yourself, you probably wont get recognition or paid for how much extra effort you put into it.


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23 Oct 2011, 1:21 pm

jojobean wrote:
I think teaching the other person about quality craftmanship will help them in the long run, but if you do it right yourself, you probably wont get recognition or paid for how much extra effort you put into it.


I agree, they're being paid to do their job properly, if they're not doing it, they need to know that. If you don't feel comfortable telling them, maybe talk to your boss about it, if they didn't want to hear about the things they missed or didn't do.. They should have made sure to do them properly in the first place. (Even if it's not a paying job, it's still their task to do what they were told to do properly.)