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Posted By Guy Snappy on 23 Dec 2008 01:07 AM

Oh please Meg!

 

You are easily the most

boring writer on this

website with your pearls

of wisdom and your platitudes

and your inane conclusions

and pretentiousness and 

your Mother Teresa persona.

 

I didn't like the comments

slamming me from the others,

but at least they weren't

sanctimonious about it and

I did not have to sit through

a sermon.

 

And I say this to you only

in the spirit of what you

call in your post

"good natured ribbing"

and in an effort to help

you as you tried to help me.

 

Drink up Shriners

and Merry Christmas all.

 

snappy

As the year comes to a close

I would like to thank all my readers

for making my thread the most

popular thread on the website.

I could not have done it without

your help. And I do appreciate it.

Over 2000 hits and most of that

in the last week during the late

unpleasantness.

And special thanks to the moderator

(Steve Ebner I think, but am not sure)

for not shutting me down when he

had the chance. I became a little

intemperate and misspoke a time

or two using inappropriate terms

for several of the posters. Steve's

dedication to the First Amendment

is steadfast and yet he is sensitive to

the concerns of those I offended. But

neither of the Larry's asked to have

the offending remarks removed

showing their support for robust

discussion and for the record to reflect

accurately the free exchange of ideas

which is what this website is all about

and is its hallmark. None the less I do

apologize to them and wish them

Godspeed.

And last but not least my thanks to

those that made kind thoughtful

responses to my questions, clumsily

asked as they might have been. They

were informative.

One last point. There is a lot of gripping

on this website about adjusting companies.

How you're up on the roof and they are

back at the office slicing off a big piece

of the pie. How they run you around all

over the place, here and there, and then

send you packing and when they do set

you to work they work you like mules.

And how the pie gets smaller because

they take in work cheaper and cheaper

and then try to make it up in the split.

That's why I was surprised there was so

little interest in a discussion of how

adjusting companies are actually formed

and actually function. There's a lot of

scattered knowledge out there in a lot

of different skulls that can be stitched

together with a thread like this. They

(I shouldn't have to say this, but some

 of this is written tongue-in-cheek, but

Thanks for listening.

Drink up Shriners

and Happy Holidays all.

snappy

Yes, Mike, in the spirit of website

ecumenicalism I do apologize to

Meg. I knew that if I had not responded

to her withering critique of me she

might think me sexist and that I was

letting her off easy because she is a

woman. And as I believe her to be a

strong feminist I didn't want that. So,

Meg I apologize I was too harsh.

Drink up Shriners

and Happy Holidays to all.

snappy

Larry, I've forgotten myself and I asked the damned

thing.

My advise to new posters is to be very deferential

and don't ask hard questions. Then some of the old

timers can say,

"Ahh, grasshopper, you have much to learn."

Any you can say, "yes sir."

I've learned my lesson boys and girl.

Hey, Steve, it is really is a perfectly good word and

use correctly. I think I read in an insurance policy

somewhere.

Mike I needed a GPS device for this website, that's

for sure.

Drink up Shriners

an Happy Holidays all.

snappy

Thanks Dave.

Where you been?

So it a stupid question is it?

Does that mean you understood the question

and it was stupid or you don't understand the question

and that makes it stupid or both?

"What steps do you have to go through to

set up an adjusting company?"

Stripped to it's essence there it is?

Why is that a stupid question Dave?

It might be an uninteresting question.

It was not a fishy question. I really

wanted to hear what the contributors to

this great colloquy would say. Instead

I feel like I've been on a 2008 Space Odyssey.

I'll be puzzled till my dying day how seasoned

adjusters

***** EXPERTS *****

in the inner mechanisms and deep mysteries

of insurance policies did not understand my

little baby question.

HAL: "Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye."

Drink up Shriners

and Happy Holidays all.

snappy

Posted By Guy Snappy on 10 Dec 2008 

There seem to be a lot of service companies both

cat and daily. Could anyone give a brief overview

of the requirements for this type of firm: carriers,

adjusters, and state? I assume a lot are mom and pop.

Thanks.

snappy