Site Check. The First Week
Three situations. Pick what the foreman does.
Tuesday, 9 a.m. A window delivery shows up two hours early and the driver wants a signature and an unload crew now. Two of your men are mid-pour. What's the move?
Pull the two men you staged as backup for exactly this, sign, keep the pour running.
Stop the pour. Deliveries outrank everything.
Grab the kid and unload it yourself. Fastest way.
Your best mate asks you to look the other way on his early Friday knock-off. 'Nobody counts twenty minutes.' What's the answer?
The answer anyone on the crew would get. If he's square on hours and the job can spare him, fine. If not, no.
Let it slide once. He'd cover for you.
No, and make it public at the huddle so nobody else asks.
Wednesday you catch yourself hauling block for an hour while three men wait on answers about the garage header. What did the hour cost?
Three men's momentum. Your hands moved one stack while 24 man-hours ran without direction.
Nothing. The block had to move and you moved it.
Respect. The crew thinks hauling is beneath a foreman.
Two out of three right means the first week's lessons stuck. All three: run the site like that on Monday.