Construction

The foreman knows more about what’s happening on that project than almost anyone. They know which sub is two days behind and why. They know where the drawings don’t match the field conditions. They know which material delivery is going to cause a problem before the delivery has even been scheduled.

Someone retires. They take thirty years of site knowledge with them. There's no transition plan. No one sitting beside them for the last six months learning how they read a site, how they manage a difficult sub, how they know — just know — when a schedule is going to slip before the numbers say so. Just a card, a cake, and an empty desk on Monday.