Masonry Magazine February 1980 Page. 51
You Know It's Going to be A Bad Day When
the business agent arrives with the bricklayer you laid off yesterday.
this stranger walks up to you and says, "Good morning. I'm your OSHA inspector. Is that your hoist with the man riding on it?"
the bricklayer shop steward arrives for the first day and you notice he has no trowel or tool bag.
your foreman calls and asks when the rest of the face brick is coming and you know you've already received the full amount estimated.
you get to your office and find your bookkeeper and the I.R.S. auditor calling each other nasty names.
the owner, who always did business with you on a handshake, sends you a registered letter, return receipt requested.
the building super of an occupied building that you completed a year ago (and still have retainage money due) calls you the day after a heavy rainstorm.
the bonding company asks for another financial statement.
the general contractor says, "I mailed your check yesterday."
you call expecting to make an appointment to sign up a job and the project manager says, "You better check your quantities again."
you get to your job and you find everybody standing around the mortar mixer that won't start.
the business agent pulls up on your new job and your foreman says, "I hope you remembered to report this job," and you forgot to do so.
the set of plans you just opened for an estimate has been marked up and stamped by five of your competitors.
you call the general contractor for a final payment and he doesn't seem to remember you.
-Tony from New York
Bonsal Names Construction Sales Team
In a major move to develop and expand sales to professional builders and distributors, W. R. Bonsal Co. has appointed six district sales managers to handle construction marketing throughout the Southeast.
John V. Baucom, Jr., will cover southern North Carolina, South Carolina, and the northeast corner of Tennessee.
Paris Pratt will handle professional accounts in southwest Florida.
James P. Parsons will be responsible for the territory from Atlanta, Ga., west to Birmingham, Ala.
Harry Harris will manage Construction Division Sales in western Florida, southern Alabama and eastern Louisiana.
Walter G. "Mac" McKenzie will cover eastern Georgia, including part of Atlanta.
A. Brad Wycoff will handle the district including western Tennessee and Kentucky.
Hugh Bell, Construction Division Sales Manager, said the division aims to win a major share of the professional building market for Bonsal in the Southeast. "Everyone thinks of us as the Surewall people, since Surewall Surface Bonding Cement has such a leadership position in the industry," Bell said. "But now we're taking aggressive steps to make distributors more aware of us as a source for a broad line of grouts, masonry coatings, anchor cements, and other cement-related products."
Construction is slated to being this spring on Bonsal's new corporate headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
World's Tallest Brick-Clad Hotel
Hyatt Regency Chicago chief engineer Leroy Gowlevich (right) directs hotel general manager Don Deporter and sales/marketing director Tony Krabal in laying the last course of brick for the hotel's $78 million building expansion. The structure is claimed to be the tallest brick-clad hotel in the world.
Set to open in May, 1980, the new East Tower will double the hotel's capacity to 2,041 guest rooms, 214 hospitality suites, and more than 16,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space.
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