Last summer I made a deal to do the finish-out about 40,000 sf of shell spaces at a new retail shopping center. The shell contractor was more or less a joke, the lights in the soffit were run with romex, he used N-1 load centers for the outside house panels, the transformers for the space had floating grounds, the list goes on, but I took the job knowing all of it had to be fixed and was part of the deal.
When we get our final inspection the inspector red tags me because I have one 4-square box with (4) MCs terminated in it, which is against our local ordinances to have more than (3) terminating in a box. The GC was mad at me, threats of liquidated damages were flying, and I was a bit peeved too. So I called my inspector and asked him why he was being so picky with me when he finaled the shell contract with such blatant code violations. He said you have been in business long enough to know better and we expect you to do it right. He basically told me I am being held to higher standard.
