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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.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus Posts: 6713 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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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
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.
-------------------- Jean Shimp Shimp Sign & Design Co. Jacksonville Beach, Fl Posts: 1266 | From: Jacksonville Beach, Fl. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus Posts: 6713 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus Posts: 6713 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.....
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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????
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus Posts: 6713 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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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"
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3813 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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