Would you trust me

Back in the day, after leaving the coal industry, I became a General Contractor.

I built houses, did remodeling work, installed heating and air and just pretty much anything to do with construction.
I got sued [ and lost ] quite a few times for shoddy workmanship, defective products and outright lying to my clients. There were a few times a roof leaked or the plumbing was wrong and caused a backup, ruining the floors and downstairs ceilings. Then there were a couple of times I got the wiring wrong and the house caught on fire.
The house burned to the ground and they lost everything, but it's not like anybody died.......well, not then anyway.
There was that time I got the venting wrong on a furnace and the whole family died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Yeah, I got some pretty hefty fines, but I never went to jail, I still have my contractor license and I still do construction work.

You'd trust me to work on your house, right ?

a reply to: DAVID64

I feel like there's a twist coming. No I wouldn't personally use you to do any work. I'd say it's surprising you never got sent down for manslaughter.

I've heard of people who jump from business to business when they lose the ability to work in certain fields, never seen it myself. Is it tricky to apply such licensing techniques in the US?

To add, most people wouldn't be forthcoming about past failures usually... Maybe I have met people like that

a reply to: DAVID64

So you haven't killed anyone with your work then?

YET.

a reply to: nerbot

Like I said, there was that family who died when I got the venting wrong on a furnace.
But they still let me install furnaces.

a reply to: DAVID64
I've been looking for someone to keep my rental places...rentable. I need a contractor who doesn't mind bending a few rules to get things done. You sound like just the guy I need.

a reply to: Klassified

Right ? If the roof leaks, you can always file an insurance claim. And if I get a cut from it, I can guarantee it'll leak.

a reply to: DAVID64

I think I see the direction you are heading.
But sure, I'd go to the ends of the earth to be sure you were the guy to do all the work on my house. You are on my side, so it's only logical.

a reply to: RAY1990

Hmm. Then I wonder why so many still trust these guys.

a reply to: DAVID64
Kinda thought you might be headed this direction, but wasn't sure.

Hmm. Then I wonder why so many still trust these guys.

Probably for the same reason they still trust the politicians in bed with them, as well as the MSM making it a threesome.

a reply to: Klassified

You pay enough kickbacks to the right "inspector" you can get away with murder.


Literally.

originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: DAVID64
Kinda thought you might be headed this direction, but wasn't sure.

Hmm. Then I wonder why so many still trust these guys.

Probably for the same reason they still trust the politicians in bed with them, as well as the MSM making it a threesome.

I left out the FDA. I guess that makes it an orgy.

originally posted by: DAVID64
a reply to: RAY1990

Hmm. Then I wonder why so many still trust these guys.

Because money. That's why anyone does something stupid and unethical. Money, drugs and privilege. Better to profit for being a sleazy con man than to languish for being an unrewarded and arbitrarily punished saint. But this isn't surprising anyone.

originally posted by: TzarChasm
...But this isn't surprising anyone.

Maybe not yet. And it's quite disconcerting. Even discombobulating.

I mean, no, it's no surprise to many, yet to many they must be unaware because how else do you explain Pfizer, Moderna, et al having so many damn cheerleaders for a leaky and failed "vaccine?"

What’s that? Tradition?

a reply to: Klassified

a reply to: Dalamax

Tradition is like that thing where you keep doing the same thing and expecting diffrent results, isn't it?

originally posted by: Klassified

Kinda thought you might be headed this direction, but wasn't sure.

I figured it was going to be a bit more literal, and would end up being someone high up in the White House who had actually done each and every one of the things mentioned in the OP.

I mean this is worse, but just saying that↑ is where I thought it was heading...