I helped a buddy of mine open a retail shop a few years ago. The inspections were ridiculous.

The building inspector would show up, find one thing wrong, leave without looking at anything else and tell us to reschedule.

Then another building inspector would show up, find a different problem that the previous inspector thought was fine, leave and tell us to reschedule.

The violations seemed completely arbitrary. Each inspector had a different pet problem. We had one inspector who failed us because the restroom sign was too small. Wouldn't even wait 5 minutes for us to run across the street to grab another one from Staples.

After a few weeks we finally got the original inspector back. We fixed the single original problem he had, and he passed us. For a while I wondered if they expected us to slip them a few hundred dollars.