Report: 'Archaic' Systems Crippling SF's Department of Building Inspection

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a recent column, Mission Local reporter Joe Eskenazi uses a job listing to explore what's not working at San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection. The managerial job was only posted for a week at first, and required only a high school diploma or "equivalent work experience" -- code for an internal hire. He describes nepotism and corruption running rampant, with city workers marking up plans by hand, because the department operates as if computers didn't exist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.0	Coming up, if you've ever needed sign-off from San Francisco's Department of Building inspection, you know what a Byzantine mess it is. Journalist Joe
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