Gothamist: DOB Hopes More Inspectors Will Help Stem Blunders

JenChungsBra

Tue, 20 May 2008 09:55:45 -0500

I have a good friend who's a buildings inspector and he's definitely not sleazy, corrupt or ignorant of the buildings codes. But there are certainly people like that. And the DOB doesn't make it easy for him to do his job. He gets offered bribes almost every day, he has to use his own personal car most of the time and only gets reimbursed $8/day for doing it, he's not allowed to carry a weapon on the job even though he's been threatened many times (and he's a vet who took a bullet in combat and is way more than capable of handling a gun or knife), and in his office he shares a computer with 20 other people who all have to use the same computer to write up violations. Oh yeah -- he also gets paid shit. So good luck hiring more inspectors.

Jerky

Tue, 20 May 2008 02:58:46 -0500

You mean the qualifications beyond being sleazy, corrupt, and ignorant of the building codes?

dcsos

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:17:49 -0500

Being unwilling to distrust Bruce Ratner

ANGRYGOD11

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:10:32 -0500

Does anyone know what are the qualifications to be a NYC building inspector?

sonyactivision

Mon, 19 May 2008 20:50:30 -0500

A big collective "Huzzah!" emanates from all the Dunkin Donuts in the city.