Pet hates

[TaffyDuck]

Aplogies if this thread has been done before.

When you go to a job what are your pet hates that you find a previous sparks has done? :banghead:

 

[plugsandsparks]

Its happened again, ended up on another wobbly scissor lift, seruiously i was feeling sick up there and i was only at 4M, what is it about these lifts that they have to wobble so much. I was using a spirit level on some high level suspended trunking and it was a waste of time the bubble was feeling more queasy than i was.

 

[trev]

"Hilarious" car stickers like Recycled Ferrari or When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Porsche

 

[Dean Williams]

Cat 2 diffusers that you cut your fingers to ribbons getting in and out and cat 2 diffusers that simply pop out but you spend a lifetime trying to get back in....then spend ages wiping off the fingerprints.

and DBs in tiny cupboards under stairs where you have to make yourself as small as possible to fit in, then spend the rest of the day walking around like the hunchback of notre dame!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

no grommets on knockout boxes.....keep seeing this and just today the line conductor on one of these went to earth (through one of these ungrommeted boxes) and went off with a right old bang on a job i was doing....blew the line conductor away...fuse still held though....(BS3036-30A)

 

[Guitarist]

no grommets on knockout boxes.....keep seeing this and just today the line conductor on one of these went to earth (through one of these ungrommeted boxes) and went off with a right old bang on a job i was doing....blew the line conductor away...fuse still held though....(BS3036-30A)

Good old fusewire... Don't they use the 30 amp for suspended bridge wire, it is so strong? :yes:

 

[plugsandsparks]

So called standard "breakers" that fit many different boards, was at a Mueller Db today and needed a B6 and had a few examples in the box, but all of them when tightened up went the wrong way and the breaker ran to the back of the board, except a Newey one that i have had for ages and never used. You would think they would make it easy wouldn't you. Even Merlin and Square D sit slight.ly differently and they are from same company.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Good old fusewire... Don't they use the 30 amp for suspended bridge wire, it is so strong? :yes:

a bit too strong for standard domestic stuff these days methinks....good for motor circuits though.....

 

[Knobhead]

Store men that think the door is a one-way valve, in only! Company accountants! Buyers that think they can get a cheaper option to what you ordered, it doesn’t fit but it was cheap! Production managers (the list is to long)! Production workers (the list is even longer)! Plumbers! A civil gang that armed with a mini digger can find every U/G cable or pipe in the area, except the one you want found!

The list is endless.

 

[UNG]

Buyers that think they can get a cheaper option to what you ordered, it doesn’t fit but it was cheap!

Then expect you to spend hours making it fit so it costs more than buying the proper part in the end

Or they tell you that the right part is not available any where so they got an alternative only for you to find a supplier with 10 times as many as you want


Brings me on to another pet hate, managers who have been to management school but haven't got a clue what the engineers they are managing do and are unable to support the engineers with technical advice and help and don't understand a repair takes as long as it takes and there isn't a standard job time for it

 

[telectrix]

anybody that wears a suit and tie and not attending a funeral or wedding.

 

[TaffyDuck]

anybody that wears a suit and tie and not attending a funeral or wedding.

LOL

Downlighters right next to joists, downlighter holes cut with a padsaw so they all break up, CPCs twisted together in CU, architects, people who say "it will only take a minute", 45mm patress boxes without enough space in the knockout to fit 2 10mm T/E through, fancy light fittings without enough cable room, etc etc

 

[jumpin jax]

metal class 2 light fittings with stupid white connector with fiddly screws, no chance of connecting two cables

 

[SparkyDips]

When working in office areas how people in a shirt and tie look/treat you like scum, ####off !!!

 

[trev]

Chavs in ugg boots, PICK YOUR DAMNED FEET UP!!!!

 

[SparkyDips]

Rover and MG drivers, get out of my f###ing way!!!