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Who gave up on using a smartphone?
Blanka:
--- Quote from: TopJimmyCooks on October 11, 2011, 04:08:47 pm ---Best thing while working: in my line of work (hiring and managing many subs and suppliers) I have 600 contacts that i use regularly and probably 400 more that I could clean out. 970 work and maybe 30 personal. There's no good options I've found for a dumb phone that handles a long list contacts nearly as well.
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The main reason I'm shifting my own profession. Being an architect is starting to suck big time with the way contractors are working nowadays. We have a work with 300 subcontracters walking around. That is sick. In contractor-selections we demand 1 contact to be there the whole week, and nobody else to talk to. Guess that person is you :D
A few years ago when I started, a contractor had al services in house, and the builders had a good all-time employment. Steady structures, clear internal communication and often a big workshop to do a lot of prefabricating in house. That time is gone.
danny_galaga:
My smart phone:
I can call AND text people with it...
TopJimmyCooks:
--- Quote from: Blanka on October 12, 2011, 03:02:06 am --- Being an architect . . .
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My Dad's an architect and I've done a lot of design/build projects with him. I agree with the contractor interfacing issues, a bad contractor can make a great design and program look rough. Many Architects around here have stopped doing any Construction management unless specially requested or required by the client.
--- Quote from: Blanka on October 12, 2011, 03:02:06 am --- Guess that person is you :D . . . .
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In the States we call the onsite supervisor and single point of contact the Superintendent. I am the project manager, I usually have several superintendents running individual jobs onsite. I visit the sites but don't work there constantly. much of my job is calling people for pricing and making sure they do what they said they were going to do - not my fave part of the deal.
--- Quote from: Blanka on October 12, 2011, 03:02:06 am ---A few years ago when I started, a contractor had al services in house, and the builders had a good all-time employment. Steady structures, clear internal communication and often a big workshop to do a lot of prefabricating in house. That time is gone.
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That was a popular method here in the past in the US. However, due to the fluctuations of the market and construction, the advantage goes to the more flexible general contractor who can scale his workforce by hiring more/larger subs or smaller/less subs. Some good GC's (like me!) do still keep some in house manpower/craftsmen for critical work. Not enough to build a whole project, though.
To tie it back into the thread, I've gotta move around and call a bunch of people, and the baggage that goes with the smartphone is a necessary evil. I don't check my messages much after dark unless i'm expecting something.
leapinlew:
Smartphones are what you make of them. I have to imagine the first groups of people to use a computer could've had the same complaints you are having
1. Using a keyboard sucks. I can write much faster than hunting/pecking on a keyboard.
2. Storing of files takes up too much expensive disk space.
3. I can only work on one program at a time. On my desk I can have multiple workbooks open.
4. If the electricity goes out, the computer is worthless but I can light a candle and keep working with paper.
Configure the phone how you like - it's a tool. Make it work for you.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on October 12, 2011, 09:22:00 am ---Configure the phone how you like - it's a tool. Make it work for you.
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This.
EDIT: Unless you are a BB user, in which case things may not be working for you at all right now. ::)
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