My old foreman in Tulsa said 'the plans are a suggestion, the ground is the boss' and I argued with him for 20 minutes about it | Builders Forum - Talk Freely
Did you win that argument or did the ground win it for him? I've watched a crew spend half a day fighting a rock that the "plans" said wasn't there, and let me tell you, the rock never once looked at the paperwork. Sounds like your foreman was right, and you were just too young to admit it yet.