I’m currently waiting on the fifth revision of our appliance bid for the new house. At least I think it’s the fifth, I’m starting to lose count at this point. The first version came when we were in Australia. It was missing the ice maker for the bar and the cooktop for the guest house, the washer and dryer for the main house were the wrong model number, both dryers were gas instead of electric and the vent hood was a wall model rather than an island.
I sent back the corrections and then the whole conversation about the vent hood went down a rabbit hole in a way that’s entirely too tedious to explain in detail. After some additional offline conversations, that got sorted out and another bid was sent. The guest house still showed a gas dryer and I noticed it was missing the dishwasher. So another bid was sent. This time the dishwasher was included, but instead of changing the guest house dryer to electric, she changed the main house dryer back to gas. Urgh.
I sent yet another correction and received a very abject apology in addition to the fourth version of the bid. I went back with fresh eyes and reviewed the whole list again, only to realize the guest house frig and micro/convection oven were stainless rather than black. Okay, I missed that from the get-go since I wasn’t focused on color, but I’m pretty sure I made a big deal out of hating stainless during our whole initial meeting.
So now I’m waiting for version five. Hopefully, this will be the last one. I credit my ten years of project management experience for giving me this sort of attention to detail. It just makes me wonder how people who don’t have that capability manage to build a new house. I guess the answer is they probably don’t.