It has a significant effect but not a universal effect. Some companies will feel the pain, others will continue on as usual. If this is going to affec...

@richard-imrie only 2 of the 20

I don't know that I would have started the post with "rather large pain in my butt".

OK #16 Have you been trained in identifying wetlands? If not you open yourself up to liability and you have no defense when someone else claims there ...

What in tarnation are you talking about?

Ok what is the etymology of "hornswoggle"? I know I sure wouldn't want to get hornswoggled at the auction buying cattle.

Exactly, when I'm on a diet I cut them vertically and when I'm hungry, I cut them diagonally.

@holy-cow I'm curious, where are these people "who never had to deal with such matters". Do they exist somewhere outside of society in some type of is...

That's what we used to cook Rocky Mountain Oysters. Double O branding iron?

Poop jokes aren't my favorite but they are a solid number 2.

I don't know how the software was written but it would be a monumental mistake if they used stored collimation values when determining collimation val...

Dendrology is a part of surveying and there is nothing wrong with it being a test question. You only have to answer a portion of the questions correct...

OK you have coords on a property corner or 4 corners. The earth moves a foot. You do a survey. Where are the corners? At the original coords? Do the c...

@murphy What gives the surveyor justification to label this area as an access easement? Are you suggesting prescriptive rights have created this easem...

@dave-karoly What do you mean "for free". The guy donated 100 acres. The state made a trade of these services for those 100 acres. Certainly wasn't fr...

@santiago While the specs are much better. Someone new to leveling, without making any blunders, should be well within 0.10'. A myriad of small things...

@gary_g While it is laudable on your part to want to take responsibility for the deductible, your employer should have never allowed it. Owners take t...

I'm just guessing the floodplain information was developed using NGS benchmarks. So if I wanted to provide relevant elevations to the floodplain it wo...

How much tilt correction would have to be involved to be off several feet?

They are your employees. You are responsible for their actions and you are responsible for paying them. It you don't want to be responsible for both o...