About Taking Responsibility For Actions

 The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating to ca. 1700 BCE (short chronology). It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a human-sized stone stele and various clay tablets. The Code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" (lex talionis)^[1] as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man.^[2]

Two laws from the Code of Hammurabi are shown below:

229. If a builder has built a house for a man, and has not made his work sound, and the house he built has fallen, and caused the death of its owner, that builder shall be put to death.

230. If it is the owner's son that is killed, the builder's son shall be put to death.

The Code of Hammurabi demanded that people be responsible for their actions. If you were the builder, you would find that this code is very harsh, but it would make you, the builder, more careful in building the home. You would not find such a law in the US.

To me it makes great sense that if a field services firm sends an inspector to a BAD ADDRESS, the inspector should be paid for the trip to the bad address.The field services firm made the mistake and they should be responsible for their mistake.

Ask firms if you will be paid for a trip to a bad address. Some firms want to take no responsibility for their mistakes and actions that waste the time of field inspectors. Firms and inspectors need to take responsibility for their actions in accordance with a common business code.