So in my initial consultation with the permit people they told me that I could just build a little chain link enclosure for my garbage area and that was that. I filled out the initial paperwork accordingly.

As we ground through the permit process I was forced to build a little garbage palace with fire proof walls, in which water that hit the roof would go into the garbage area, washing garbage down the sanitary sewer connection that I had to have dug, that was in the bottom of the little concrete pan that I had to have poured. It was an unexpected expense that came up way further int he permitting process than I would have liked.

After months of bullshit with the permit office, build out is done, waiting for them to give the go ahead for final inspection, which they tell me will be green lit in a day or two. Two days go by and the permit doesn't go up. I wait a few more days, leave a few messages, no call back. A week has gone by, I call more, they tell me it should already have already posted and they'll check on it. Wait two days, nothing, call again and leave a message, no one calls for a few days. Finally get a hold of someone and they tell me that because in my initial application I didn't check the box for external structural work (the garbage area that they said I didn't need) I was going to have to go back through the entire permitting process allover again.

I lost it a little bit...

After a few days of fighting the system they let me pay $500 more bucks for the right to go back in time and check the exterior structural box that I had already paid for the structural and sewer permitting on. I looked at this a deal.

I don't know how no one goes and shoots up the permit office after it has killed their dreams. They are so stupid and uncaring about what fucking assholes they are. My shop would have been much nicer if they hadn't caused me to shell out so much money in rent and garbage areas and other bullshit.

There is a club you enter into when you become a small business person that you heard about but never understood until you've tried to do a build out.