The Change – Draw Jacket

The pay application line, the waiver, and the change order.
You are putting one order in the jacket. You are not retyping it. Your pen hovers over the signature line for a split second before you scrawl your name, no cross-outs, no messy addenda squeezed into the narrow margin at the bottom…
Several orders are approved. You are deciding which one is in this application. Your desk holds the printed draw request draft, a stack of signed change…
The backup uses a percent. The contract clause states a percent. You squint between the two printed pages spread across your desk, pen hovering over the…
A proposal has a rejected note. It is still in the jacket. You flip it over once, scanning the faded scribble in the top right corner…
You are adding the original sum and the approved orders. One order is still proposed. The crumpled time-stamped change order slips sit stacked to the left…
This number was on last month's application. It is on this one too. You tap the line twice with the end of your pen, the smudge…
The completion date changed. It is on this order. You run a finger along the highlighted line near the top right, where the project manager scribbled…
Tickets are clipped on. The order is a lump sum. You’re leaning over your desk, rain still beading on the cuff of your work jacket from…
A start date is written. Your daily report has a date. You cross-reference the handwritten scrawl in the margin of the pay application against the timestamped…
Your signature is on it. The architect line is empty. You trace the edge of the crumpled corner where the foreman scribbled a quick note about…
The order says who pays. You are reading that line, not arguing it. The rest of the approved change order sags a little at the crease…
The price is zero. The drawing revision is not. You’re staring at the approved construction draw packet on your desk, scrawled note from the foreman tucked…
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