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mark ju
Quite often reading some of these posts can suddenly bring to mind something that was said or done possibly years ago. I think this will amuse/amaze/astound you...........
A couple of years back, i was involved in working as one of a four man gang involved in sub contracting. As in a lot of sub contracting we tended to fetch up on various jobs here and there and one of these jobs involved a warehouse refit near Goring. To our surprise (and i have to admit-dismay), the foreman electrician on this job turned out to be a guy who had been laid off on a previous job we'd been on, not because of work drying up but mainly because of lazyness and incompetance.
Knowing him to be a total clown, it was very difficult to take him seriously, but as we were pretty much left to our own devices his presence on the job didn't affect us too much.
So..part of the job, without going into too great a detail involved 9 rows of lights (each row had emergencies ) fed from 9 circuits spread obviously over three phases. So i'm stood there with a list detailing bits i needed ordering and he says why do you need nine keyswitches? Well because we have nine rows fed from nine mcb,s. Dont need that he says, you can do it with just one keyswitch. Ahh i said, so you want contactors fitted then, no he said, you can feed all the emergencies from one keyswitch/mcb!
First of all i laughed because i thought he was taking the p**s, but no he was deadly serious! Caused a hell of an arguement, especially when my mates joined in!
I got my own way in the end but i dont think this guy ever believed that what he was proposing was just so bloody wrong, and he claimed to have done it that way on a previous job, so somewhere there were emergency fittings with two phases run to them !
So i nominate this guy as a PRIZE IDIOT!!!
Whats your nomination............
A couple of years back, i was involved in working as one of a four man gang involved in sub contracting. As in a lot of sub contracting we tended to fetch up on various jobs here and there and one of these jobs involved a warehouse refit near Goring. To our surprise (and i have to admit-dismay), the foreman electrician on this job turned out to be a guy who had been laid off on a previous job we'd been on, not because of work drying up but mainly because of lazyness and incompetance.
Knowing him to be a total clown, it was very difficult to take him seriously, but as we were pretty much left to our own devices his presence on the job didn't affect us too much.
So..part of the job, without going into too great a detail involved 9 rows of lights (each row had emergencies ) fed from 9 circuits spread obviously over three phases. So i'm stood there with a list detailing bits i needed ordering and he says why do you need nine keyswitches? Well because we have nine rows fed from nine mcb,s. Dont need that he says, you can do it with just one keyswitch. Ahh i said, so you want contactors fitted then, no he said, you can feed all the emergencies from one keyswitch/mcb!
First of all i laughed because i thought he was taking the p**s, but no he was deadly serious! Caused a hell of an arguement, especially when my mates joined in!
I got my own way in the end but i dont think this guy ever believed that what he was proposing was just so bloody wrong, and he claimed to have done it that way on a previous job, so somewhere there were emergency fittings with two phases run to them !
So i nominate this guy as a PRIZE IDIOT!!!
Whats your nomination............
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