Yep, I know. The guy basically though that neatness took longer and we were "under the knife" so to speak. the project was a disaster in many ways. I told my boss the doors are being done wrong and instead of saying "thanks", he said "Why were you in there?"
We did end up doing a "walk thru" and found stuff like "shutt-off" valve handles plastered in the wall.
Me finding the doors actually saved time. The bad thing was, is I was delayed because they would not let anyone in the area until the contractors were finished. i would not have been working near the contractors for the most part.
No planning. No sort of "Gantt chart"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart, even informal. I was actually trained in project management, but it was below my pay grade. Next time, I'd let the boss take the fall. Every time, I stuck my nose into it, it saved time, but I got yelled at except once. I took the beating in that too because I had to design and build "on the fly". I bough the parts "I thought I would need" and tried to schedule arrival so i could keep busy with the "hard srtuff".
Bossy wanted to impress his boss by having things "checked off". In a large project, I leave the simple stuff for last because "I know" there is a low probability of issues. I don;t want to be in a situation of "waiting for parts" or "not designed yet". Those are higher priorities in my book than kissing someone's butt. "Interlocks" did not get put in place because I would have had to been in full shutdown mode. Stuff was ready to "drop in". I already needed to be the "last one done" before commissioning.
The good part is I never had to troubleshoot the system, just add to it. Early in the original design back in the 80's, I had to ultrasonically clean the air valve solenoid plungers. They buzzed because of dust in the manufacturing process. Somewhat tough to track down.