NABCEP [RE-wrenches]

[William Miller]

Matt:

The paragraphs below that you wrote describe elegantly an all too common
scenario.  Thanks for putting it so well!

William Miller




At 01:40 AM 12/19/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>OK.  Back to your "on-the-job-training" reference.
>
>Just because you "learned it on-the-job" doesn't make it right.  There are
>many factors....Misunderstanding or application of Code or principles of
>operation, bad teaching, lack of oversight, un-trained inspectors, laziness,
>bad work ethic in general, hurry-up-and-get-it-done, GREED, missing
>conscience, "supply house didn't have the right thing so I used this
>instead", etc.  This doen't make it OK!
>
>All these things create an "I did it that way last time and it worked" sense
>of "it's OK to do it that way again".  As you've stated previously, nobody
>wants to repeat the mistakes of the SDHW "money grab".  I think all
>reasonable persons recognize the shortsightedness of doing so and that
>anyone who really gives a *&it about this thing we call an industry must do
>what they can to prevent that from happening.
>
>Is NABCEP the answer?  I don't in any way believe it is the whole answer,
>but I do believe it can be part of the answer.

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