We deal with The City of Kansas City, MO for inspections (It is City to City around here). Let's just say the experience is less than memorable. Just like calling the water department (City owned). This one time I called the water department to get the water turned on in a house we had just bought to flip. I got put on hold so I could talk to the supervisor and the girl just put the phone down on the desk and then tells some other girl named Shaneequa about a party she had been at the night before.....I could hear EVERYTHING. This goes on for about 5 minutes. Finally I get transfered to the supervisor. I'll be damned if it wasn't Shaneequa Let's just say there were a lot of "Girrrr" and "OH no he didn" and "UUhhhhh HHuuhhhh" thown around in the conversation. It's pretty much that way in every and I mean EVERY city office here. We also pay local earnings taxes three times as business owners....not fun.andrew wrote:Not to stir hate and discontent... generally electrical inspections are from the state. Local building inspectors don't generally like charging fees to people they can run into in the checkout linescotties22 wrote:That's me alright....subtle and soft spoken
My husband and I own 3 small businesses and I hate when someone does something stupid like this to us. It is soooo unnecessary. All so the local municipality can make some extra money off the folks that just really don't have it.
(speaking as one who works for a local municipality )
andrew
I'm not saying anyone should shirk the system here. Building codes are there for a reason. But my problem is the electrician running and telling the building inspector something he had no right to share. Why does he care what the shop is getting used for? He is having the work he performed signed off on, nothing more. From a liability standpoint he can always deny he knew it was going to be used for woodworking if something were to happen. Was there a contract stating that electrical work was being performed on a shop that was to be used to woodworking? Probably not. More than likely the estimate and invoice read something like "install 3 new outlets in a shop or outbuilding." And if it read more than that he is an idiot.....less is always more