No....what's "typical" are our own "cretins' on the forum who react before they find out the reasons.
Here is what this "cretin" learned from reading the article:
“We had people there well over 12 hours a day for weeks because [the hotel] had a hard opening of Sept. 12 and you can’t open if the lights don’t work and the fire alarms don’t work and the fire marshal can’t expect it,” said Tim Miller, AES’s executive vice president. "There is a lot of work that went into that hotel, and it didn’t happen by accident.”
AES claims it assigned 45 members of its staff to work 12-hour shifts for nearly 50 consecutive days to finish the electrical, fire and lighting systems at Trump’s hotel on time.
Miller said the company has a $17 million contract with Trump but is missing $2 million after the frantic schedule.
Was the work completed so that the hotel could open on time? Yes.
The first thing you do when you get an invoice....was the job and/or quality of the finished product satisfactory?
If not....you withhold payment until they remedy it.
But we're not talking about a single invoice here. We are talking about two years worth of invoices. Again from the article:
Joseph J. Magnolia, Inc., a plumbing company, meanwhile, filed a claim in late December it is owed $2.98 million for more than two years of work.
Two years of work? Do you really believe Trump International Hotel would allow this company to continue working for TWO YEARS if the quality was substandard?
If this were a one-time thing, then it could be written off as a simple business dispute. But Trump companies have developed a longtime history of this type of behavior. They would rather pay lawyers to shave costs in court than pay contractors on time.
