I did something I maybe have not done before, in 22 years: After a 45 min. travel time, we started at 7, and worked until 5:30, in 90+ heat, I quit. Thing is, the truss job should have taken 4 or 5 hrs. but these amatuer builders (with a couple hired "carpenters", who were worthless, one talked on his cell phone for several minutes BEFORE unhooking me, I wanted to take him aside and tell him how much a minute that cost the homeowners), the same guy put the truss stabilizers where they did the least good, and way too many of them, all before unhooking me. Girder trusses on each side, with trusses going between, once in the hangars and with a single or at most dual stabilizers at the top, I was ready to swing the next truss. But no...., they would fill each and every hole in the hangars first, before cutting me loose. Then they would stand there doing nothing while I got the next one. Don't get me started on the guy rigging for me, after telling him twice "once you get me hooked up, get your hands outa there," but several times he'd reach back in to fiddle with the rigging after I started winching up, totally unneeded, he just didn't understand that the chain (lifting grade) I use on the end of a sling (the headache ball never gets closer than 6' while they're unhooking me) will slide up as the truss is lifted, doesn't matter a whit if it's not up tight against the top chord, it will be as soon as it's upright. He also didn't get he didn't need to choke up on the tag line as the truss was lifted off the pile, he'd have his face right by the truss as it lifted off the stack, instead of standing the heck back and letting me get it airborne without getting in the way. Of course, he didn't know when to let go of the line, and when to get me parallel to the other trusses.
Anyway, at 5:30 with only half the house done, and after finishing one type of truss up (all braced) and while they were studying the truss sheet to figure how the stack needed to be shuffled to get at the next ones: I called it. I told them (it wasn't up for discussion) I'd had it for the day, and explained if we worked until dark I'd still have to make another trip out there to finish up. They did have the good sense to agree with me, everybody was getting tired. I'll go back next week, in a better mood (four 10-12 hrs days in a row last week, all in heat) and will grin and bear it, and give them a bill 3 or 4 times more than it should be, if they had competent help. I'd rather knock out 4 houses with pro crews and make the same money. I hate feeling guilty over profiting from their ineptitude, but they knew my hourly rate going in.