Pet peeves..........................

[magnoliafan89]

What are you're biggest pet peeves?
I only ask as i came across mine yesterday. People who when connecting sockets decide they only need about 2 inches or so of cable in the back....yeh cheers when someone else comes to take it off and has to reconnect with short cables and the terminals are always in different places to the last socket.
Even more annoying is when you find a non continuity and its the kitchen underneath a cabinet with short cables.

I hope people who do that have to poo cacti

Rant over

 

[Charlie_]

Such as; ‘heating engineer’
Aka.. plumber

Or any other profession that uses engineer in its title, with the exception of bona fide engineers

 

[littlespark]

Pretentious job titles

"Electron management consultant"?

(that's 'electrician')

 

[Charlie_]

"Electron management consultant"?

(that's 'electrician')

Urban Dictionary: Electrician - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Electrician

 

[Bobster]

Such as; ‘heating engineer’
Aka.. plumber

Or any other profession that uses engineer in its title, with the exception of bona fide engineers

There was quite an argument once on this forum as to what constituted being an engineer.

I agree with you though, in nearly ever other country in the world engineer is a protected title, much like being a Dr.

The UK got rid of that ruling a long time ago, a now it seems every tom dick and harry is an engineer.

Saying this, my job title has engineer in it. I've got a few accreditation's in different countries to back it up though haha.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I used to be an Engineer, now I’m an Electrician.
I’m more qualified now than I was when I was an Engineer.
Of course, in America, it’s just a posh name for a train driver.

 

[Bobster]

I used to be an Engineer, now I’m an Electrician.
I’m more qualified now than I was when I was an Engineer.
Of course, in America, it’s just a posh name for a train driver.

This is true, from the times of steam engines being introduced.

It's still a job title, but an engineer as we think of has some designation with it. For example indentured, licensed or chartered, I hold the former.

 

[Intoelectrics]

I agree, pretentious job titles make me chuckle, especially the latest fad of technicians
Vehicle Technician - car mechanic
Sanitary Technician - bog cleaner
Domestic Technician - house cleaner
Blah blah blah...

Apparently it seems like no matter what job you do theses days you are a "technician". -

Technician definition: 1. a worker trained with special skills, especially in science or engineering: 2. a person whose technique is very good

Somebody had the bright idea to take one definition ^^ and milk it. Now everybody has jumped on to the band wagon.

Though reading more, it seems that in simple terms, the "technicians" are the doers and the "engineers" are the problem solvers.

I'm changing my job title to "Technical Operations Engineer"

 

[littlespark]

So a plumber could be “Technical Operations Engineer: Radiators and Gas”?

Pity the abbreviations spell out TOE-RAG


Just a mo... My “female life partner” would like a “hand held ceramic liquid container” of “high temperature H2O” and “dried plant leaves delivered in a small perforated paper based envelope”
With just a dash of pasteurised bovine lactation.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Terminal or cover fixing screws made of cheese or which don't fit any screwdriver known to man.

Recessed cover fixing screws in which the recess has a ridge at the bottom into which the point of the screw invariably catches, on heatstore bathroom fan heaters the only way to get the screw in is to tape it to the end of the screwdriver.

Customers who come up to me when I'm doing an auto RCD test and say "Is there a problem....?"
"No"
"Well why does it keep tripping then, it didn't before you came?"

People who let their cats on the worktop just after it's shat and paddled around in the litter tray and then ask if I want a sandwich.

I'll think of more later.

 

[telectrix]

farty little screws in downligher terminal boxes that...

1. don't fit any screwdriver known.
2. fall out down the steps and bounce away usually through a hole in the floor or into the sweepings.
3. are not magnetic.

 

[littlespark]

Posts on here from an electrician magazine.

Better than the Chinese carp we used to get though

 

[FatAlan]

I agree, pretentious job titles make me chuckle, especially the latest fad of technicians
Vehicle Technician - car mechanic
Sanitary Technician - bog cleaner
Domestic Technician - house cleaner
Blah blah blah...

Apparently it seems like no matter what job you do theses days you are a "technician". -

Technician definition: 1. a worker trained with special skills, especially in science or engineering: 2. a person whose technique is very good

Somebody had the bright idea to take one definition ^^ and milk it. Now everybody has jumped on to the band wagon.

Though reading more, it seems that in simple terms, the "technicians" are the doers and the "engineers" are the problem solvers.

I'm changing my job title to "Technical Operations Engineer"

Not PC now to be referred to as a member of staff! I always chuckle when in the supermarket (doing some domestic engineering) that staff announcements are called colleague announcements.

 

[littlespark]

That’s because “staff” suggests the workers there are on a contract, are on the books and are employed

Most will be part time, cash in hand invisible workers

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Over hardened 1000v screwdriver tips which snap off without warning, over-priced Klein being a prime example. Bahco slim tip, the dogs, never snapped one yet.

 

[telectrix]

Over hardened 1000v screwdriver tips which snap off without warning, over-priced Klein being a prime example. Bahco slim tip, the dogs, never snapped one yet.

and wiha slims are the dogs, bollox also.