This is malicious compliance at it's finest...right?
Sub-contractor left a 3-foot wide hole in my lawn filled with sand. Called parent contractor to ask that this be remedied. Sub-contractor returned today cursing and grumping about "wasting sod on a shit lawn" in my security camera feeds. They're not all wrong - wife allows a "natural" lawn for the first few weeks of spring for the bugs, but even her mishmash of vegetation looked awful with a sand-filled hole in the middle.
Anyway, is it usual to plop a tiny sod piece in the middle of a pile of dirt and sprinkle grass seed around it? Cuz back in my landscaping youth, albeit some time ago, we just cut out lawn wedges to match our sod wedges and literally never did anything but place sod edge-to-edge with living grass.
Am I crazy, or is this some master class malicious compliance?
EDIT FOR CONTEXT (From comment reply)
This is the culmination of three attempts to get them to return to an abandoned job site on my property, undertaken without my consent (public utility) that was promised to be "remediated to the original condition".
I'm laughing as I take the L. I told them to congratulate the sub-contractor on their successful demonstration of malicious compliance and I consider it closed. They win! I just didn't want a giant hole in my lawn whose function I didn't understand.
I don't care about the lawn (obviously!).