[Superman]

I work for a private engineering consulting firm. Our client is a public agency. Our task is to handle the construction contractors who are signatory to the public agency's construction contracts. So......I look over one shoulder and I see the public agency. I look over the other shoulder and I see the private construction contractors. Guess where I see the least responsible behavior? Guess who plays all the games? Guess whose agenda is to gouge others and hide the information they might need? And guess whose commitments are reliable met, and whose cards are on the table for anyone who cares to check on them?

Heck, if the construction contractors would do, say, 80% of the things they promise to do, in writing, this client would not need me. The public agency, on the other hand, pays its bills on time, satisfies each and every one of its commitment quickly without need for reminders and provides the contractors with the administrative and managerial help they so clearly appear to need desperately. Yeah, you guys can pretend all you want that gubmit is the problem but from where I sit, the view is crystal clear. Construction contractors. Just one step up from used car dealers. Or maybe they are tied.