Licenses

 

Look What You Made Me Do

I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me
I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams
I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now
Why? Oh, ‘cause she's dead (oh)

Trust is everything

Humans can NOT see everything in the heart of someone else. At best they can see 5/6^th  of what the absolute perceives.  So when someone else tells you something there is a change in that 1/6^th  that you can’t perceive, they may be lying to you.  That is why ethics exams are so important,  You want to believe that a statement is true. but how can you tell if it is true.  You get someone to vouch for the person making that statement.  You might not have experience with that person, but someone may.  And you may rely on that person to reassure that that some other person can be trusted.

So how do you get that trust?  Trademarks, licenses,  guild masters, etc. There are codes of ethics as part of that process.  But you count on that process being itself ethical.  Sometimes it is not.  https://dbeagan.blogspot.com/2024/06/ethics.html. 

I have a Professional Engineering license and that often comes with a Professional Engineering stamp.  I have worked for an A&E firm where plans had to be stamped, even if they were prepared by non-stamped staff.  The scramble of PEs diving under their desk when the call went out “who can stamp this” was a sight to behold.  Somehow no one brought their stamp into work on that day. 😉

The number of times I have been asked by clients “can’t you just lie” is staggering to me.  ”Doh, no I can’t. I would lose my license.”  And that may resolve the constitutional crisis.  The number of people who lie in court that are creating the constitutional crisis will be faced with the fear of losing their license, and their livelihood.  Ask yourself, “Would I lie for you?  Is it worth it?”