What a wasted day.Courtesy of local govt.

[grandsport]

Another story of how government is controlling our lives.Friday was supposed to be our opening day at the new store.I was in charge of getting all the cars moved 2 miles to the new place.5 hours and 100 cars later,an inspector came and said we were not in compliance with the local code,being an exit was not in the proper place.Now this can be corrected by morning and this is a first class operation,not juniors used car lot.The jerk didn't want to hear anything and told us if we conducted business tomorrow we would be fined by the township and the state could revoke our license for operating illegally. Oh yeah,the inspector can't come back until Tuesday.I think I was more upset than the owner,who was pretty calm.He told me to let the other guys worry about getting the cars back to the old place,and we went to have a few drinks together.

[68ChevelleSS]

A couple drinks always seems to get back to spirits as well.

[Derek69SS]

You think that's bad?

Miller/Coors is required to pull all 39 of their beers out of every bar and liquor store in the entire state of MN. Why? Because the state budget standoff caused the state to shut down its operations, so they never filed the paperwork to license the Miller/Coors beers for sale in the state. Miller/Coors paid the fee and sent the paperwork before the shutdown, but their license wasn't issued yet, and they can't sell the beer here without the license.

[Hank70SS]

Dealing with inspectors can be fun. We put in a gazebo and hot tub back in 02. The inspector came out and slapped a big red tag on the window of the gazebo. The kind of sticky tag that won't come off. I called him to find out what the problem was after looking up the building code he sited. He said the windows weren't safety glass. I said no, they're not, they're double thick plexiglass. You could have determined that by taping on the window with your finger. Oh, it's plexiglass? Okay, permit approved, you can remove the sticker. He was right there, put a sticker on the window and can't tell the difference between glass and plexiglass.

[Ms Grumpy]

I have been in restaurant management for the past 20 years. A few years back I took over a store that had a lot of problems with the past management not maintaining equipment. On my 1st day at this location a new open front cooler was installed in the dining room. I also noticed that one of the walk-in coolers was having a problem. I contacted my boss to tell him that we needed to get maintenence out to fix both of these because they both weren't cooling correctly and not holding the proper temp. He said that the walk-in was probably OK and that the new cooler would be fine by morning. Next morning I called him again and told him the same thing and he said he would come out and check it out. In the meantime I had the walk-in cooler emptied into the the other. I also emptied most of the reach-in cooler emptied and the stuff left in it put on ice.

I worked my 10 hours and went home. After I left my boss came in and determined that both coolers were OK and had the employees fill the one in the dining room and put the items back into the walk-in. The next day I had off and wouldn't you know it at 9am the Health Inspector came in and determined that neither cooler was holding temp, and that all the product had to be thrown away.

Thousands of dollars worth of food was thrown away. I was written up for not correcting the problem. Even though there was documentation showing that I had called for maintenance service on both coolers. The kicker being that my boss was not written up, even though he canceled the maintenance service I requested.