Why Follow the Regulations

Let’s Talk - Why Follow the Regulations

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You’d be surprised but I hear a lot of “I just let them do it, I need it done.”

 

I get it.

 

But the regulations are there for a reason. They are to help govern the process and to help ensure that everyone has similar

expectations. When issues arise or questions need answers, the regulations can provide common ground for everyone.

 

Sometimes there are situations where it seems easier to just let the crews/companies do what they want instead of enforcing the regulations. So instead of enforcing the regulations you let them go.

 

But do you know these actions have a domino effect on other families?

 

Example- by regulation the crew should show up by 5pm and work until 9pm. Any work not finished they should return the next day to finish.

 

- But it’s now 1030 at night and you don’t want to tell them to stop and come finish tomorrow. No big deal. Your kids are at a sleep over and it’s fine if you have little sleep, so they continue working and finish at 3am.

 

- Now, the following week that same crew is at another family’s house that has young kids and no option of being at someone else’s house. This family knows the regulations and at 9pm asks them to stop and finish tomorrow. Their young kids need to sleep. But the crew now pushes back saying “well other families let us stay until the work was finished.”

 

- Now this family is in a bind. They are feeling bullied into letting them stay to finish and are now shuffling kids around to different rooms so they can be packed.

 

Other situations where this happens commonly is with tipping, feeding, handling inventories, and not reporting behavior of crew members.

 

When you allow one crew to not follow the regulations it puts another family down the road in a bind when they try to enforce them.

 

Suddenly that other family is a bad guy and now dealing with a more difficult situation because one family allowed them to do something else.

 

Regulations help us set expectations of right and wrong.

 

Regulations are there to help us.

 

Please follow and enforce them.