This is a general rant. It is not directed at any one person. It was simply triggered by today's events in Austin and this link.

There is no Inspector, including the very best that respond to this site, who would be invulnerable to a group of lawyers scrutinizing our reports for errors or omissions on every report your write. To think that they waste our money doing so angers me. To think that they dig for errors in areas other than the complaint subject should outrage and terrify us all. I have no doubt that what Phillip says is accurate.

If you look at the post I just did under "Alert Texas Inspectors", you will see that, according to TREC, there have been 53 total disciplinary actions taken in the last 10 1/4 years. Those actions were taken against 40 total Inspectors. I have no idea how many investigations have occurred.

I am proud of what I do and proud of us as a group.

Did these two guys screw up. Absolutely. Big deal! So have I and so have each of you, and Bob H and Phil, and the J twins and all the other A team. And any who say they haven't are delusional or liars.

To discuss how we can be better at what we do motivates me. To see us try to help each other when we need it gives me joy. To emphasize misfortunes of others or the lack of performance of others makes me sick. None of us will be so self assured when one of those lawyers who don't know a hammer from a nail, but who do know how to manipulate our language better than we ever will, gives us our turn in the chair.

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