This is a response to a post by Jar546, the forum owner. I came here with it because Jeff doesn’t appreciate my rough hewn opinion. Besides that, his post is a work of art…. I mean it…. You can tell that he put time into that one. I just didn’t want to dirty it up.
So the aforementioned tome by Jar546 is about the beauty of his operation with a computer as the main focus. His office runs like a well oiled helicopter… he knows how that can go. You might do well to now take a look at his post {-here-}. It is an achievement that the airline industry could learn from. In fact, that might be where these computer programs are born.
Well anyway, here goes. For decades I left the office at 9:00am and performed the inspections assigned to me. If I left a route slip, there was no order to it. Nobody knew where I was or what I was doing. If the office called my cell phone I had the option of not answering. If a contractor called my cell phone he found out why he should not call my cell phone. And now that you mentioned cell phones, until the last two years, my County issued phone was a Nokia brick....not even close to smart.
By the time I got to post #4 I had a vision of an office filled with people that had their hair on fire. "Tell me now. Right now! I can’t wait. Don’t make me wait. Ohhh! Did I pass inspection?" "Well sir we can see the inspector's GPS and he's still in your driveway, but hold on for a rainbow from the Cloud." "There do you see it? Congratulations Sir, You passed."
Of course the inspector was Anglia and she does not have a clue about service panels.... but that's our little secret. And they think that it is a secret ... contractors know. As long as they know immediately it’s all good.
Jurisdictions across the land are spending on these computer programs and the hardware that uses them while the inspectors are horribly unqualified. Fixing what ain't broke and missing the obvious deficiencies is how I see this. The level of expertise among building department staff has plummeted while the efficiency of the inept effort has reached new heights. But hey now, that contractor can get a result within seconds....it's too bad that the result is worthless.
So now that I have given my typical negative take on your best work .... put your thinking hat on ... or perhaps you prefer a helmet. I look at what you have created and can't help but think that if there was just a little more trust in the inspectors, such a tight leash wouldn't be a necessity.... but then you know them better than I do.
There are a few dozen inspectors and building officials that are regulars at this forum. There's a few hundred thousand that are not. Roses they are, in a field of milk weed. It is in a vast sea of mediocrity that you will find what I am telling you.
I swam in that sea. I know what passes for a building department, what inspectors are like in the wild. My kindest description would be to say that it is a cruel hoax.
As an aside, how does an inspector enter the time spent getting a haircut?
So the aforementioned tome by Jar546 is about the beauty of his operation with a computer as the main focus. His office runs like a well oiled helicopter… he knows how that can go. You might do well to now take a look at his post {-here-}. It is an achievement that the airline industry could learn from. In fact, that might be where these computer programs are born.
Well anyway, here goes. For decades I left the office at 9:00am and performed the inspections assigned to me. If I left a route slip, there was no order to it. Nobody knew where I was or what I was doing. If the office called my cell phone I had the option of not answering. If a contractor called my cell phone he found out why he should not call my cell phone. And now that you mentioned cell phones, until the last two years, my County issued phone was a Nokia brick....not even close to smart.
By the time I got to post #4 I had a vision of an office filled with people that had their hair on fire. "Tell me now. Right now! I can’t wait. Don’t make me wait. Ohhh! Did I pass inspection?" "Well sir we can see the inspector's GPS and he's still in your driveway, but hold on for a rainbow from the Cloud." "There do you see it? Congratulations Sir, You passed."
Of course the inspector was Anglia and she does not have a clue about service panels.... but that's our little secret. And they think that it is a secret ... contractors know. As long as they know immediately it’s all good.
Jurisdictions across the land are spending on these computer programs and the hardware that uses them while the inspectors are horribly unqualified. Fixing what ain't broke and missing the obvious deficiencies is how I see this. The level of expertise among building department staff has plummeted while the efficiency of the inept effort has reached new heights. But hey now, that contractor can get a result within seconds....it's too bad that the result is worthless.
So now that I have given my typical negative take on your best work .... put your thinking hat on ... or perhaps you prefer a helmet. I look at what you have created and can't help but think that if there was just a little more trust in the inspectors, such a tight leash wouldn't be a necessity.... but then you know them better than I do.
There are a few dozen inspectors and building officials that are regulars at this forum. There's a few hundred thousand that are not. Roses they are, in a field of milk weed. It is in a vast sea of mediocrity that you will find what I am telling you.
I swam in that sea. I know what passes for a building department, what inspectors are like in the wild. My kindest description would be to say that it is a cruel hoax.
As an aside, how does an inspector enter the time spent getting a haircut?
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