Warning - ranting, griping, and all-around "poor me" syndrome ahead.

Okay, so I started off today with two buildings not fitting on the drawing the way they are supposed to...I work in home-building by the way. My boss, and my boss' boss, are both being mental about the whole thing...why aren't we doing the plots upfront? Why are we waiting on the foundations?

Because that's the way we've always done it and nobody bothered to tell me to do it differently?!? I do NOT read minds!! They were in such an all fire hurry to do this stuff and then get pissy when little things trip us up.

Now, I get a call from my builder. The paperwork he turned in for a 6-unit building is fine...except for the engineering stuff. The foundation and engineering letters all show a 5 unit building, in complete disregard of my original order.

Part of this is definitely on my shoulders as I should have checked before sending it to my builder. But also, why wasn't it caught by the engineer when doing a double check or the builder when looking at it before turning it into the city? My job is to push the paper. I place the order and I get the copies out to the builder.

The problem with being the "middle man"? I've got the bosses unhappy in one ear, the builder and city in another, and it's my mouth having to take all of that and throw it at the contractors.

There are days were I really just want some piddling little job somewhere that doesn't require this crap. I like my company most days, but it seems to be happening more and more often that I'm getting this "why the *bleep* did that happen" vibe like I have an answer.