How to deal with boss that doesn’t know how to bid jobs?

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I work for a trim and flooring company that is branching into tile, which is why I was hired. My boss, who has never done or worked around tile, keeps bidding jobs to be done in insanely short amounts of time. When they are obviously not done in that time frame he gets frustrated and says we’re loosing money. I have tried to explain to him that the time frame of a whole bathroom gut tile job and a flooring job are very different in many ways but he doesn’t seem to get it. It’s not that I am s...

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Originally published on March 26, 2026. Curated by Construction News.

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