The Foreman Check
Eight questions across the whole month, most of them situations you haven't seen yet. Six right passes. You get one submission, so take your time.
The arithmetic of the promotion
Eight people on eight-hour days put ________ hours a day through your calls.
Week two. Your cousin starts on the crew as a laborer. On his third day he's twenty minutes late. What does he get?
A quiet word only. Coming down hard on family in week two looks like a show.
Exactly what anyone else on the crew would get for twenty minutes late.
A harder line than anyone would get, so nobody can say you go easy on family.
The guy who wanted the job has turned in clean work for two weeks since your tailgate talk. What happens to the quiet checks on his walls?
Stop them. He's earned the trust, and checking now would insult him.
Double them. A quiet stretch is exactly when things slip.
Keep them the same as everyone else's. They were never about him.
The redo rule bends when the conversation is going to be awkward.
Match each moment to what you do
The office moves the drywall delivery up two days without asking you, and the crew is annoyed. At the huddle, what do they get?
The new sequence and who's on what. Your complaint goes to the office yourself.
That you're annoyed too, so they know you're on their side.
That it's the office's call and there's nothing you can do about it.
Which of these is yours to decide on site without calling anybody?
Moving two people from sheathing to blocking for the afternoon.
Letting the plumber bore a bigger hole through an engineered joist.
Telling the client you'll add the window she just asked for.
Tuesday you realize the window order is two units short. The windows go in next Monday. When does the office hear it?
Friday, once you've checked with the supplier yourself whether they can rush it.
Today, with the two sizes and the rough-opening numbers.
Monday, when the truck arrives and you can confirm exactly what's missing.
Submit when you're ready. Pass or not, you'll see why each answer is right.
Finish this check and the academy issues your certificate of completion for The Crew Is Yours, with your name on it. Reading as a guest, nothing gets recorded; a free account collects the certificate.
Then go run Monday.