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Shoulda tole him to "pound gravel".
O well!
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> Maybe not a bribe but once a guy wanted to seal a set of foundation plans so he could get a building permit. All he needed was me to stamp it ..
Similar scenario. Circa mid 90's a good realtor client (if there is such a critter) once asked me if I could give him a few of those yellow caps of mine I use for corners I set, so he could just set them atop some mystery meat monuments he found. Thus avoiding the cost of the survey after he tells the buyer "... see those are "fresh caps"..". Whatever a fresh cap is?
Never worked for the guy again.
Once during a level loop for flood plain survey my client who was a
real estate broker said some insinuating words about a bribe. I just
brushed it off.
Also, the attached image shows some pie lots, equally as
stupid as the round lots, IMHO. :-/
I’ve never been offered a bribe but as a SI we were explaining to a neighbor the reason we were looking out in his field for a monument was because we found an old survey by Blank. The neighbor got a little flustered and said “BLANK? For the right amount of money he’d set a pin in someone’s dinner table. AND YOU KNOW IT!” After the neighbor left we got a pretty good laugh out of that comment.
> I was offered a bribe from a well known oil company to continue work at a very remote site through Christmas. We had already been on site for 30 some days.
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> My party chief at the time said at would take a new snowmobile for me, and a new snowmobile for his son.
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> Needless to say, we got to spend Christmas with our families.
I would not call that a bribe but more of a bonus to entice you change your work schedule. As a general rule, I do not charge my clients any different fee for overtime if it is the result of my scheduling (employee overhead is calculated based on 40 hours so the extra 50% is basically a wash). What you are describing is nothing different than a client offering to pay extra to work overtime to meet their schedule for which they pay an additional 50% on the standard rate. Hell, I may even consider moving someone up on the schedule if they pay a premium, not that that has ever happened.
I will say that back when I work for a large engineering company, a ski resort client called Friday afternoon and asked if we could send a crew up that weekend to profile a lift line before snow started falling on Sunday. They were willing to through in seasons passes for all of us who worked on it. So we skied for free that year.
Just last month a homeowner offered $200 to not show his heating equipment in the basement. Would lower his flood insurance premium. Guess in his estimate that's what my reputation and business is worth.
Was staking out a new subdivision abutting an older one and one of the corners fell in the middle of a guy's shed. It was one skids and could easily be moved and he knew it was over. Offered me $50 to set it somewhere else. I hadn't been a crew chief for too long and didn't really know how to deal with people so I politly told him I was working for the local big wig, said I'd never work for them again and he let it go. My partner said I should have said told him that the neighbor had already paid me $100 to set it on him so he'd have to better the price.
I was once offered a 7 or 10 day all expense paid vacation to Hawaii for my family of 5 if I would just sign a subdivision plat prepared by another company with probably a hundred significant errors in it. Like curve tables for roads that were not depicted on the plat, etc. When I declined I was badgered by the developer's attorney threatening a suit for lost revenue from lot sales.
I eventually received an apology from the (well known) engineering company that prepared the plat and I still haven't been to Hawaii.
How about a witness corner on line, outside the building? Show it on your drawing and show that there was a building where the actual corner goes. Everyone will be satisfied. Collect the bonus. 😉
> Also, the attached image shows some pie lots, equally as
> stupid as the round lots, IMHO. :-/
If not more stupid. What the heck is someone going to do with the tip of that acute angle pie-corner anyway? Can't mow in there, can't use the space...etc. At least with the round lot you can utilize all of your property.
Hey Mr. P,
Would that be the same individual I have had the misfortune to also know?
If so, in his normal tenor he is a loud and rather obnoxious individual to be sure.
A rather large man who seemed to like to hear himself talk so everyone could hear.
He was the kind of guy I had no use for and glad we only did a couple jobs for him.
Just an overall unpleasant person.
E.