Most ridiculous request from your employer?

[nannoo]

I've been at my current job for about 7 months and it started off well. Went to change a DB,which was a Crabtree C50. The new DB was never going to fit into the space the existing board occupied. Contacted the management and got the reply "fit din rail to accommodate 60898 MCB's to the existing board"

I don't even know where to start with what's wrong with that statement. Notice handed in,leaving in 2 weeks.

Have you had any ludicrous requests. Did you stand ground,comply,leave or option D?

 

[nannoo]

Him - Look Dave it comes down to this What is more important your holiday or the company
Me - Well from this friday - My holiday
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From the JIB handbook "Well from this Friday - My holiday" is the correct answer to that question...Good on ya.

 

[nannoo]

That's a busy weekend. Still playing gigs?

 

[Geordie Spark]

That's a busy weekend. Still playing gigs?

No not since '79 when I "retired" on Doctor's orders.

I had a layoff for about a year and reappeared as a sound engineer for a gigging band. Then I bought my own rig and the PA Hire company was born.

 

[Diddy]

Aye, they just don't "get it" do they?

The bloke im on about (owner of said firm) was famed for his cheque writing skills whenever anybody either disagreed with him or stood up to him. He was a five foot bully lol. I knew it was on the cards for me as my nose was never brown enough.
I have come across a few like him in my years though and as said some guys just do not get it...I work to live, I do not live to work. Standard stuff.

 

[Jonspark]

Ridiculous request - As above will you work for flat rate - in general electrically it must run into the thousands the number of downright stupid requests.
The most stupid question I was asked by an employer was away back when I had just officially come out of my time - Had been doing little jobs for firm for 6 months +.....you know "easy" stuff take an apprentice with you and "get on with it". Then I actually run a couple of tidy little jobs which were in on a friday 4.30pm and out for 8.00am on the monday morning. I had about 6 of these under my belt when it was time for my pre booked officially approved holiday.
Boss "Sorry Dave you will need to cancel the holiday as Mr X can't take over these Friday evening jobs he has a young family ect ect"....we are talking about a firm with 50+ sparks on the books here -
So anyway
Him - You need to cancel holiday
Me - Are you going to pay fee's and difference in ticket price
Him - No
Me - Well im not loosing £700 and this is my 1st holiday abroad and it is to celebrate coming out my time...so therefor im sorry I can't cancel but can show anyone the ropes in half a shift
Him - Look young man there is a recession on just now you are lucky to have job
Me - Im still going on holiday - this is a JIB company and I have followed all the rules
Him - Look Dave it comes down to this What is more important your holiday or the company
Me - Well from this friday - My holiday
Him - Here is a cheque for what you are due - F-Off
Me - thanks bye

I already had a nice job lined up down the channel tunnel lol. But I always remember that question (in bold) Im afraid even as I got older and supposedly wiser I could never answer that question any other way lol.

Reminds me of the old saying "He who works hard and does his best goes down the road like all the rest"

 

[Geordie Spark]

The bloke im on about (owner of said firm) was famed for his cheque writing skills whenever anybody either disagreed with him or stood up to him. He was a five foot bully lol. I knew it was on the cards for me as my nose was never brown enough.
I have come across a few like him in my years though and as said some guys just do not get it...I work to live, I do not live to work. Standard stuff.

The hardest, meanest bloke I ever worked for was myself!

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Can I not leave things on top of cupboards and filing cabinets as its a heath and safety hazard.

also, one site had a swimming pool. They filled it in and paved over it, because it was too dangerous. Someone might have drowned in it.

and yes I left eventually ;-)

 

[Geordie Spark]

Can I not leave things on top of cupboards and filing cabinets as its a heath and safety hazard.

also, one site had a swimming pool. They filled it in and paved over it, because it was too dangerous. Someone might have drowned in it.

and yes I left eventually ;-)

I blame the Yanks for a lot of this shyte. They created a multi-million dollar business out of suing at the drop of a hard at and like a lot of their other shyte it somehow migrated over here.

 

[NDG Elecs]

Have you had any ludicrous requests?

Can I do all paperwork; certs, quotes, etc, in the evening at home, will only take some thing in the region of 6 hours per week......I told myself no but I just would not listen! The joys of self employment!

 

[Knobhead]

We were selling a shunting loco to Rutland Railway Centre. “Can you see if the brakes will release?” Sounds a fun afternoon for me and one of the fitters, it had never moved in 5 years as I could think of. It was coupled to a scrap iron carriage, we couldn’t be bothered to get the carriage shifted so left them coupled.

So the fitter crouched at the side of the loco as I unscrewed the hand brake, he shouted “there coming off”. They released OK, I couldn’t get them back on again! We had to go and get another loco to drag them back a ¼ of a mile.

It was the green loco and the iron carriage in this picture.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

Overtime road closure last night to investigate a 12m column with a double arm on top that had somehow rotated itself out of it's perpendicular. The aluminium column has a stainless insert to accommodate the bracket arm. This insert is epoxy glued into the column and also has one locator screw. The insert has 4 pre-tapped M10 holes to accept the stainless steel allen key head bolts that secure the bracket arm in correct alignment. These fit in with serrated washers.

Still reading???

Ok, so the only way the arm can move out of alignment is if all four bolts have sheared. Up we go in the bucket and sure enough, that is what has happened. There are huge wind loads on Swansea sea-front. Even some of the aluminium traffic lights have buckled and folded over.

In the office this morning I presented my report only to be informed that i should have bridged the join between bracket arm and column with 'something' and steel banded it on, as 'that has what we have done before'.

I forgot to put in a stores requisition for 'somethings' so I didn't have any. Certainly nothing so robust as withstand the loads applied that had already sheared 4 M10 stainless steel bolts!