General Contractor Hats

A general contractor sells the job, hires the subs, answers the phone and eats the mistakes, and the trade has spent decades turning that into jokes. The glossary humor that circulates among builders defines a change order as a seldom signed request from the owner for free upgrades, and a low bidder as a contractor who is wondering what he left out. A long-running forum thread on funny boat names settled on the same joke: the small boat is Original Contract, the big boat is Change Order. The numbers behind the humor are real. About 47 percent of homeowners go over budget on renovations, and two in three have gone into debt for one. Contractors in homeowner forums regularly debate underbidding to win the work and then recovering the price through later change orders, and deposits are a standing flashpoint. These General Contractor hats are written from the contractor's side of the clipboard: the badge, the change order, demo day, the deposit policy and the house that never gets finished. Good, fast, cheap, pick two gets its place here, and LOW BIDDER and the boat line earn second colorways. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Buy one for yourself, or for the builder whose crew and spouse already know exactly which change order they are talking about.