Kevin please change careers before killing someone

[captaincaveman]

Hi,
If you're a spark, you're reading this, your name is Kevin, you work in the Manchester area and you did a job in Rusholme yesterday on lights that kept tripping the RCD - Please reconsider your career before you do serious damage.
It's forgivable that you were unable to diagnose an insulation fault with the lights and blamed it on a faulty RCD (though the customer said you thought it was both RCDs which should have made you think again). I presume you don't have the right equipment for insulation & RCD testing?
It's also forgivable taking the lights off the RCD as a tempary measure.
What isn't forgivable is taking the 1.5mm lighting circuit with an insulation fault on it, taking it off the 6A breaker and putting it directly on the main ccu switch protected only by the suppliers 100A fuse! To compound matters you didn't even put it on the consumer side. Instead putting it on the supply side so when the customer was getting a firework display last night - they couldn't even isolate the electrics!!!
I don't know how much current was going through the light fitting but even the copper had disintergrated.
I seriously believe if I hadn't attended at 1am this morning there wouldn't be a house still standing.

 

[Midwest]

No I think Arse will be sufficient.

They often use the phrase builders bums, don't they? In any case, most builders I know are only interested in their bill being paid, and getting they're mark up on ones work, and not offended by name calling. Just saying.

 

[ruston]

We all name call other trades , It's called banter . Don't take it too serious.

 

[CACJL]

Hi,
If you're a spark, you're reading this, your name is Kevin, you work in the Manchester area and you did a job in Rusholme yesterday on lights that kept tripping the RCD - Please reconsider your career before you do serious damage.
It's forgivable that you were unable to diagnose an insulation fault with the lights and blamed it on a faulty RCD (though the customer said you thought it was both RCDs which should have made you think again). I presume you don't have the right equipment for insulation & RCD testing?
It's also forgivable taking the lights off the RCD as a tempary measure.
What isn't forgivable is taking the 1.5mm lighting circuit with an insulation fault on it, taking it off the 6A breaker and putting it directly on the main ccu switch protected only by the suppliers 100A fuse! To compound matters you didn't even put it on the consumer side. Instead putting it on the supply side so when the customer was getting a firework display last night - they couldn't even isolate the electrics!!!
I don't know how much current was going through the light fitting but even the copper had disintergrated.
I seriously believe if I hadn't attended at 1am this morning there wouldn't be a house still standing.

Somebody whos an extreme cowboy is not even fit to work as a burger flipper.

 

[Midwest]

We all name call other trades , It's called banter . Don't take it too serious.

I tend not to call scaffolders any names, especially the ones with big calloused hands.

 

[Midwest]

Somebody whos an extreme cowboy is not even fit to work as a burger flipper.

This blokes done alright ;

Burger van owner amasses £9m online investment fund | Daily Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5340525/Burger-van-owner-amasses-9m-online-investment-fund.html

 

[ruston]

I tend not to call scaffolders any names, especially the ones with big calloused hands.

You are right , some powerful men there .
I know a lot of it is conditioning but they make it look so easy.

 

[telectrix]

I tend not to call scaffolders any names, especially the ones with big calloused hands.

even the ones with soft cissy hands can drop a hammer on your head from 40ft.

 

[Midwest]

Fortunately, I don't go near building sites these days. I do hold them in admiration mind; anyone stupid enough to shiny down a scaffold pole --- feet up without anyway of stopping, has got to be a complete nincompoop. Not that I would tell him not to.

 

[telectrix]

since you can't get on these sites anymore without a cscs card ( ECS for those of us with brains), i don't go near them either. more farting about than getting the job done.

 

[Midwest]

Yep. Years ago H&S wasn't even a consideration, not so nowadays. Think the pendulum has now swung too far in the opposite direction.

According to the CDM 2015, I now have to complete a risk assessment when I go to Mrs Miggins house (doing a lot of work there recently?) to change her light bulbs (lamps to some). Madness I tell you, madness

 

[Pete999]

Yep. Years ago H&S wasn't even a consideration, not so nowadays. Think the pendulum has now swung too far in the opposite direction.

According to the CDM 2015, I now have to complete a risk assessment when I go to Mrs Miggins house (doing a lot of work there recently?) to change her light bulbs (lamps to some). Madness I tell you, madness

 

[telectrix]

Yep. Years ago H&S wasn't even a consideration, not so nowadays. Think the pendulum has now swung too far in the opposite direction.

According to the CDM 2015, I now have to complete a risk assessment when I go to Mrs Miggins house (doing a lot of work there recently?) to change her light bulbs (lamps to some). Madness I tell you, madness

my misuss eats all the CDM so i have to make do with Bournville. prefer it anyway. milk choc is sickly.

 

[Midwest]

my misuss eats all the CDM so i have to make do with Bournville. prefer it anyway. milk choc is sickly.

You idiot, Bovrnvrill is a beef extract drink, not chocolate. You've been consuming too much of that chocolate stout!

 

[telectrix]

You idiot, Bovrnvrill is a beef extract drink, not chocolate. You've been consuming too much of that chocolate stout!

Bournville, you pillock, not bovril..

 

[EbolaSideRoom]

Yet

Should consider himself lucky he is not explaining himself to a judge.