Hey Dan and Dom (sounds like a puppet show )… I fully agree with you. If you know of our members violating our Code of Ethics, let ESOP know.
Let me explain a little ancient history to you. I appointed Joe Farsetta as head of ethics because he is like a bull dog… strong and mean. Who better? He’s perfect for the job and he’s been doing it very well ever since. He wears no collar, no leash, and is underfed.
Ethics is everything to us at InterNACHI and Joe Farsetta and ESOP always do what they have to (as unpopular as it may be at times) to defend InterNACHI’s honor. I’m with you on this one, and so is ESOP.
When you see something wrong, please speak up. I’ll follow your lead and do similarly.
I know I’m going to sound like a sexist with this one, but what the heck, we’re all family…
Ethics is the spine of an association. If you want a straight spine you need strong men like Farsetta and Bushart, men who aren’t going to get pushed around, helping keep things in line, and willing to wack a few heads if need be.
There are some women who can do such a job (Jeane Kirkpatrick comes to mind), but on average, it has been my experience, that a much smaller percentage of women are suited for such positions. Women are much better in positions that require diplomacy.
It’s not that women aren’t enforcers IMHO, it’s that they aren’t executioners (killers)… generally… that is the problem.
Anyway, my point here is that it is my personal belief that the ethical struggles suffered by that mini-association stem from it being managed by a for profit company owned by their own female Executive Director.
Feminine qualities are wonderful, but if you want an association with a straight spine, you need a little Bushart/Farsetta-type male energy in your ethics committee.
Nick, all of that is fine and dandy, however, members of such a commtitee should be above reproach, before they can render true and honest justice to and for all. In other words, one needs to be ethical, if they are to rule on ethical matters. I think this is the biggest problem members have with the ESOP. Plus they need to have a firm set of standrds to go by, and members have the right to know what these standards are, in order to keep from crossing the line. JMHO :neutral: :neutral: :neutral: :neutral:
Intersting reply, this is from a nahco member:roll: , guess all is not as rosie in nacho world as nick wants everybody to believe.
Me post or file a complaint.
Not… I am not one to rat on someone, just following posts of some members here is telling enough:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
What I was trying to explain to Dan and Dom (boy, the more I say that the more it sounds like a puppet show ) is that it is no big surprise to me (personal opinion here) that the female run mini-association is naturally going to be more diplomatic compared to InterNACHI. Frank was the U.S.'s youngest member of Special Forces for example. There is clear contrast between a totally, 100% female run association (the mini-association is managed by a for-profit management company owned by the assocaition’s own female Executive Director) and InterNACHI, which has committees dominated by alpha males. Now don’t get me wrong here… most everything I have going in the business world is run by women. The Boulder office staff of InterNACHI is 100% female. Lisa can outwork 10 men. I’m just putting forth my personal theory that the reason that other association fails so miserably when it comes to ethics is that it lacks the mean guard dogs we have here. Too much diiplomacy hinders ethics enforcement.
God put us all here to try to figure out what we each do best… and God expects us to then go do it. God put guard dogs on the earth too and the best guard dogs are male dogs that bark and bite.
God put us all here to try to figure out what we each do best… and then do it. The best guard dog is one that barks and bites, and won’t roll over for a dog biscuit. I understand your point completely, but I’m sure there are others who like Dan will spin it to death, and as ruthless as it might seem, the way that other incident was handled, it will no doubt, be a deterent to others, who will try to pet the dog, without getting bit, so to speak. Havng said this, just keep in mind, even guard dogs need to have dis ***Temper ***shots.
I won’t even consider it. A guard dog on a leash has only one job… and it ain’t guarding. It’s turning perfectly good dog food into dog $hit. How would that help the association? It wouldn’t.
Anyone who has come to InterNACHI looking to join a do-nothing, unethical, diplomatic association that offers nothing more than ugly logo usage has come to the wrong place.
This is NACHI where most can voice their opinion and thoughts ( Even Dan)
(" I am not one to rat on someone") and that in a nut shell is what is one of the major problems in the world today!
Example 55 People in a restaurant and two start shooting at each other .
Police arrive and no one saw any thing,
No witnesses.
I Guess we all can see what type of person Dan complain about every thing else but never stand up to help all.
Dan unfortunately you are a mugwump through and through.
Dom. I think you are keeping it on thread topic reminding all that there is a HUGE DIFFERENCE between an international association that may have members who are violating (knowingly or unknowingly) the association’s very strict COE… and… a mini-association that permits ALL its members to act unethically and so has no violations to police.
Thanks again, Nick, for publicly acknowledging that iNachi ignores the fact that members violate the COE, and continue to do so with your full knowledge and support.
Since you know about it and have written about, shouldn’t you correct it?
Your very strict COE is meaningless if it is not enforced regularly, with protocols and procedures; not intermittently, with whims and personal vendettas.
BTW… it’s always funny to watch someone who trys to lecture
a guard dog about being nice. How do you bite and make
everyone like you when it has to be done? Their job is enforcement.
There are lots seen in the fall sitting on the telephone wires .
They have their mug on one side and their wump on the other.
It comes from a group of people who will not support their own party .
you seem to fit this very closely when you try and belittle the home inspection industry.
You some times do offer help but most times tend to destroy the Home inspection industry.
If you are not part of improving it the you are part of destroying it .
Evidently, though, it was not forgotten. In the 1830s it appears as a somewhat humorous designation for an important person, as in The Nation in 1832: “the Knights of Kadosh and the Most Worshipful Mug-Wumps of the Cabletow,” whatever that might mean. A book of 1835 explains that mugwump is “used at the present day vulgarly and masonically, as synonymous with greatness and strength.” But it was in 1884 that it acquired its present political meaning. That year Republicans who refused to support the party’s nominee for president, James G. Blaine, were labeled “little mugwumps” by loyalists, and since then the word has remained a term for a dissident or political independent.
Interesting approch…
Been reading any books on how Hitler manipulated the Russians to take control of their country lately??
Been years since I studied this in school, your approach on this seems to ring a bell, from one of the chapters, along with many other policy’s, open to public and communications to your members from your org…
Nickos communist hi org.
Put the fear of death in members if they do not follow your rules.
Promise the world, deliver scraps, tell them repeatedly, the same thing 4 or 5 times on the same day on your web site., show them pictures of printing presses, race cars, newspaper racks, to convince them theres much more to come.
Offer free memberships to high profile members from opposing HI orgs, make a press release,on separate post/topic on BB board to tell all…
Destroy any competing org, with comparable membership requirements,
lie about their members ethics and creditability, and sue them or what ever else it takes to put them down,
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If a competing HI org has higher requirements, lie to the public, Realtors,state legislators about the requirements it takes for those members to marketed to the public as certified home inspectors.
)… I fully agree with you. If you know of our members violating our Code of Ethics, let ESOP know.