Re: AZROC - Not My Favorite Agency

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 6:05:04 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
> Well, as you recall I posted about all the complicated license changes he=
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> in Arizona a while back.  Well, my licenses renew the end of the month an=
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> its time to deal with that headache.  I have a commercial and a residenti=
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> license.  Well technically I have two combination residential AND commerc=
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> licenses now for the exact same thing.  First I have to send in a separat=
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> form to cancel one of my licenses.  I can't just send in both forms with=
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> cancel scrawled across one.  If I did that they would cancel my license i=
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> bad standing, and then cancel my other license because I have a canceled=
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> license.  I'm not kidding.  I was told that almost verbatim.
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> You would think that would save me some money though.  On paper it looks=
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> like it would, but it doesn't really.  They increased the bond amount for=
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> residential, and because it's a combination license they combine the bond=
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> amounts for both commercial and residential.  It makes for a HUGE increas=
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> in bond amounts.  As a result my fee for bond insurance costs more now fo=
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> one year for one license than it did for both license bonds previously fo=
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> three years.
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> Of course I still have to pay the mandated by law bribe to the AZROC's be=
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> and bowling fund... er I mean contribution to the contractor recovery fun=
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> In over 20 years I have never had a license complaint, and only two BBB=
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> complaints (both from people who in their own words (I read their=20
> complaints) just didn't want to pay what they owed), and still have to pa=
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> that F_____G bribe every time I renew my licenses.  That's just not right=
.
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> Sorry guys.  I just had to vent for a minute.
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> You know my tax license that I never had to renew?  That one shining beac=
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> in the darkness.  Starting this year I have to pay a fee to renew it ever=
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> year.  It's the freaking license that allows me to collect sales taxes so=
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> can pay them to the state or they will throw my ass in jail.  I have to p=
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> for the priviledge of paying them.
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> Arizona is starting to feel more and more like Kalfornicastan.
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> --
> Bob La Londe
> The Security Consultant


Jeeeze  I don't know if I could deal with that.=20

I've said it here before but that's the reason I don't do commercial fire a=
nymore. It's not worth the aggravation in dealing with assholes and all the=
 wasted time devoted to paperwork and jumping through frivolous imaginary h=
oops.=20

Faced with people who are intentionally obnoxious disagreeable and play ign=
orant I tend to not be a nice person. I'm afraid that I'd tell them all to =
F..k off and then the logo on my company letter head would be a head shot o=
f me holding a number under my chin.