Everyone and their mother has a subcontractor nowadays, and if I had the power to control the universe for a day one of the things on my checklist would be to stop that. Throughout this entire process of rebuilding the house, subcontractors have fucked me over. It's because there's no oversight, no coordination, no direction, and no one takes responsibility when something goes wrong. For example, let's take today: We were supposed to finally have the gas hooked up, but a subcontractor came out, looked at the pipe that our plumber attached (another subcontractor), said it wasn't done properly, and then left. Two weeks until another appointment slot is open, AND when we called Con Ed itself they said it should've been fine.

Or we can take attaching the internet to our house. I already mentioned the horrors I went through, but when the final step came they totally fucked it up again. See, we now have internal wiring for CAT6, and there's a box in the basement where the internet is plugged in. The subcontractor Time Warner sent out totally fucked that up and only got one port in the basement working with the rest of the house dead. And they had the balls to tell us internet was working as they left, but in the report to Time Warner they said we didn't have proper wiring.

I know why large corporations are doing this: If they don't have their own army of employees, they don't have to worry about their health insurance and such. But at the same time that just completely fucks up customer service and productivity. Literally no one seems to know what the hell is going on. I have no idea how people who aren't retired deal with this shit because they would've had to take off practically a month to manage all this bullshit.