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La hoja de autoridad
The authority sheet, in jobsite Spanish. Same sheet as the English one — three buckets, two real dollar caps, one date at the bottom to raise them on — and it runs the same checks, including the one the spreadsheet can’t make: whether the middle bucket is actually alive, or whether the second cap isn’t above the first and you’re about to sign a two-bucket sheet wearing three. Fill it in here, print it, and both of you sign it.
Free, and it asks for nothing. No email, no account, no sign-up. What you type stays in this browser on this device.
Read this first
The sheet is in Spanish; this page around it is in English. That’s deliberate. You are the one filling it in and you are the one who has to be sure the caps are right — but the thing that comes out of the printer and lives in his truck has to be readable by the man who signs it. Every word on the sheet below is off the Spanish workbook, so the file and the page can’t quietly disagree.
Start the caps low. $500 alone and $2,000 with a text is a normal place to begin. One man, one sheet: if you run three foremen, fill one in, print it, sign it, then clear the page and do the next.
The sheet fills in right here in your browser. If this line stays put, JavaScript is off — the spreadsheet below does the same job.
How it gets used
- Fill it in with him sitting there, not about him. The lines the sheet already prints are the play’s starting point. Read them out in the language he argues in, and add your own for whatever your shop actually fights over.
- Put a number in both caps. A blank cap isn’t “zero and he calls me about everything” and it isn’t a rule either — the counts here say so until you fill it.
- Make the second cap higher than the first. The middle bucket only exists in the gap between them, and this page says so out loud when there isn’t one.
- Set the raise-the-caps date 60 to 90 days out. Type it as a date. Once it’s past, the sheet says TOCA REVISAR and counts the days — the Spanish file’s own flag, the same word in the same cell.
- Print it and both sign it. A sheet nobody signed is a chat, and the two of you will remember it differently in October. Keep his copy in the truck.
- The 1099 caveat is not a footnote. If the crew is 1099, this sheet isn’t an order — it’s part of the agreement, and it has to read as what the sub can charge or change under it, not as a boss’s permission. Have your accountant or lawyer look at it before you hand it over.
Want it in a spreadsheet?
The same sheet as a spreadsheet
hoja-de-autoridad.xlsx is this sheet as a spreadsheet — same three buckets, same two caps, same TOCA REVISAR flag in D26 — for the computer at the shop. Four differences in the page’s favour: it tells you when the middle bucket is dead, which the file will print and let you both sign; a cap with nothing readable in it is called out under the box instead of sitting there as text that grants nothing; you can add as many lines of your own as your shop needs, in any bucket, where the file has one “Otro:” row each; and the raise-the-caps date says how many days away it is, where the file only ever says TOCA REVISAR or nothing at all. Two the other way: the file is a real file, so it survives a cleared browser and can live in a folder with the rest of that foreman’s paperwork; and it opens on any computer you send it to. Both of them still have to be printed and signed. The sheets ask for your email once; this page never does.
The play behind it — M1-05 Put It in Writing: What He Decides Without You — is the conversation itself and how to hold the line when he pushes on a cap, and the sheet notes spell out every bucket, both caps and the one formula.