Some people suck

Well, the problems we had with our drillers culminated today with them quitting almost a month after the head of the company came out in the field with me to install stakes indicating our drilling locations. If this was a simple process, losing them would not be a problem. However, the reason for putting stakes in was to locate utilities, which took two weeks. Having them come back last Wednesday to the spots they had already pre-chosen and saying "No, we can't drill here" was a slap in the face. And to have them avoid my phone calls and send a fax instead showed me a great deal of unprofessionalism. I don't think I will be hiring or recommending those drillers to anyone in the near future.

However, with our luck, we may have a driller available to us starting next week - someone who has been in the business for more than 30 years (experience = more reliability = more knowledge of what really happens in the field = none of this one month later sorry we can't do it even though we originally said we could bullsh!t).

I have felt terrible through this entire process. I guess it is a fitting lesson that the world isn't the nice honest place that I would like it to be, and that things don't always work out in the end in the time frame you are looking for (although I learned that one on my thesis).

I feel a renewed sense of optimism right now. Perhaps it was enough to cut away the poison from this job. Just a note - if we had've kept our original driller, we would have started last week, on time. Another guy with 30+ years experience, you see. Not someone who says they can do it if they cannot. (Or is that another lesson to be learned??? :o)