Subcontractor disputes tend to surface at some of the most inconvenient moments, for example when the crew trailer is suddenly gone from the construction site but the drywalling is not finished. Calls go to voicemail, the taping sits half done, and the painters booked for next week want to know whether they should still show up. On the other side of that story, the drywall contractor may have spent weeks chasing unpaid invoices, working around an unsafe site, or watching the schedule slide until it ran straight into their next booked job.