Two hours of sweeping on a 12,000 square foot build and the schedule acts like it never happened, that dust just magically disappears into the Tulsa wind. I love how the flooring guy becomes the unpaid inspector who walks if the slab is not spotless, so really the sweep happened at gunpoint. We started calling it "ghost work" on our jobs, shows up every phase, never on the budget sheet, eats a laborer's whole morning. Add it to the schedule or keep pretending the dust fairies handle it, your call.

Man, that sounds rough but I'm glad it worked out for you.

That mentor probably meant well, but time trackers don't prove people wrong on their own.