Yesterday I went into city hall to sign a thirteen page contract for a wooden sign. There are certificates needed from my insurance carrier naming the city with a two million liability. The people in city hall have known me forty years and needed my drivers license and then pulled out a book requiring my finger prints. Do you find this unusual, or is this the new agenda everywhere? I'm accustomed to just a smile and handshake.
Posted by Gerald Barlow (Member # 3477) on :
It's you, Rickster. You look nafarious.
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
"We can place you at the crime scene, we KNOW you made the cruddy sign; it has your fingerprints all over it"
I think that's a little too much. Tell them you need all of their driver's licenses and fingerprints for your records.
Posted by Rick Beisiegel (Member # 3723) on :
Millennials are running city hall. Time to retire! If this video doesn't convince you, nothing will:
When they read you your rights...that's when you have a problem.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
i dont give 2 hoots who got my fingerprints.....mine have been in the FEDERAL RECORDS.... since 1965.......when i signed on the dotted line to join the air force........and iam sure many other federal agencies have them.as i had a top secret security clearance.....while serving........+ all of the police depts that have them))))))))))hahahahahahahaahahahaha
Posted by Jean Shimp (Member # 198) on :
It's getting to be that way with a lot of companies - excessive B***S***. I recently fired a client due to the fact that they wanted me to jump through too many hurdles to be a vendor. In addition to a lengthy and intrusive vendor application form, they were requiring that I sign up with a service that sent out my liability insurance certificates to my clients - WTF do I need that for? The "job" they wanted me to do was about $50 in vinyl lettering.
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Today I was told that to letter a wall on the hospital, we had to get TB tests. The hospital will pay for it, and add an hours time on the tab.
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Joe, my fingerprints are also on file from the military. You missed the point. I am not trying to hide my identity, I'm shocked that there is so much info they want before I can get started on this project. The forms they require for insurance certificates the insurance companies don't even know about yet. They want a two mill liability on my truck and I'm not even transporting anything from their project.
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
It's getting confusinger and confusinger, everyday, Rick. There's way too many PC bullcrap regulations on everything.
I'd venture a guess that your state is one of the worst, in terms of hoops and ladders.
And these cities have found out ways to make money off of a lot of this stuff. And it's just one more little way that Big Brother can keep tabs on what you've got going on.....
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Dale, we live in a small coastal rural community, midway between a town with a population of 1,200 and a big city with a population of 6,000. Everything here has always been done with a handshake. This 13 page contract is designed to protect the city and probably drafted by an attorney elsewhere who modeled it from something in a more urban environment. I can't provide a clue about TB testing to letter a stucco wall in a parking lot????
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
I think it's a California thing. More phony baloney govment jobs. If more goverment offices were run like a real business, lots of red tape krap would be gone. I see a lot of this in the trucking industry. "Gestapo State" "We want to see your papers"
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