I’ll always remember Herve Villasanchez and his role as Tattoo with Ricardo Montalban. Keidove goosed me into printing just the picture for those of you so jaded as to not venture further than the second or third page of the OIG report. Had you persevered until page 5 you would have been rewarded with  these. Every picture tells a story. These are so over the top:

And that little bugaboo about too much live load on the floor. When we build residential, we build to 40 lbs./ft.² dead load (weight of structural components) plus a factor of 2 for actual (live) load of furniture and people (80 lbs./ft²). Commercial would be greater but I’m not familiar with it. 160 lbs/ft.² is a shitton. It’ll deflect the floor:

Notice the lean on the ones on the right? Not good. And last but not least, the piece de resistance…

Busted. Not ADA compliant. Disabled, wheelchair-bound Vet employees couldn’t negotiate these aisles nor could they climb ladders to get on top of the cabinets to access the rearmost claims piles files. As usual, more more clarity, simply hold the cursor on the picture and click twice for a birds-eye view. Magnification will show all.

I feel for the employees who have to negotiate this maze. One of my workers was recently in a ditch cave-in and it broke three ribs-one of which  pierced his liver. He was in the hospital for two weeks and after 4 months is just now returning to duty. What, pray tell, was the VSC manager thinking?  More filing cabs. Gotta get more cabs. Stack ’em on top of the other ones. Two high, good to go. It’s only temporary ’til 2015.