Tell All About Your Daft Mistakes

[telectrix]

As title. I will start off with yesterday's daft booboo. Lighting fuse out, in pocket. stripped switch, PIR, and outside light prior to fitting new light.. croc clipped L/N of one cable to bell out as there were 2 cables in fitting, 2 in switch, 2 in PIR. identified cables. temp. different colour tape on ends of each. back to CU and replaced fuse with croc clip still across L/N. OOPS. and no spare 1361 for miles.

 

[Kamikaze]

refitted lounge carpet after adding 2 sockets. could not find my smokes. then spotted a lump in the centre of the carpet. oh, well,i thought, only a couple of smokes in the packet. out came the lump hammer and squashed it flat. then the lady of the house came in from the kitchen, saying" here are your cigarettes, you left them outside in the garden. have you seen my budgerigar?"

LMAO...
Reminds me of a time when we had loads of floor boards up in a house. After we completed the works, we screwed them back down, carpets back down etc. Jobs a good one! Tidied our tools up when we kept hearing a cat meowing. Could not find the cat anywhere so all the floorboards had to come back up again. And sure enough the little darling was under there. You got to love them!

 

[pennywise]

Trapped a customers cat under the 1st floor boards, got a call whilst on the train on the Friday "Have you seen our cat"

 

[Phil]

Trapped a customers cat under the 1st floor boards, got a call whilst on the train on the Friday "Have you seen our cat"

i just do the daft things every now and then like wiring up and discovering the cables are outside the box

 

[telectrix]

i just do the daft things every now and then like wiring up and discovering the cables are outside the box

done that a few times as well

 

[pennywise]

Not writing down the customers phone number after getting off the phone to them, then basically prank calling your entire recent calls list a week later when trying to find it again. Pulling cables through joist holes to find you missed the first one< i'm getting better!

 

[Lucas]

Making a cup of tea for everyone on site and forgetting too boil the kettle. I'll never live that down!

 

[ukpablo]

risk assesment......................was on a friday, lots on and all that!...............im sure we all been there! lol

 

[ian.settle1]

Wasn't my daft mistake but a junior engineer's on board ship when we where in Liverpool, the bridge rang down to say they had finished cargo loading and to go down to one genny from two.

He took the load off one putting it all onto the one that was to stay on then hit the button to open the genny breaker only he hit the wrong one and we blacked out the rest of us where not to happy as we had a bunch of fit nurses on board for a party.

 

[KWCFC]

Second week into my apprenticeship. Sparky asked me to drill a hole through the back of a plastic conduit box. I used the screwdriver bit that was already in the drill......

 

[gutterball]

went out to the van and forgot to set the snib on the door. returned to find door closed. had to wait untill next day for owners son to drive up from devon with a spare key.
i now keep the key in my pocket.

 

[DurhamSparky]

the door would have been in if that was me!!

 

[DurhamSparky]

hahaha at IAN!!

yeah we had a Full Reactor Scram during Transit on the Surface of the English Channel in the shipping lanes!! for all thoses that dont know what that means let me clarify!

Full Scram = No steam Production
No Steam = No Main Engine Turbines (Propulsion) or Turbo Generators (Electric Supply)
No Engines = No Speed
No Speed and a BIG TANKER behind you = Bridge Officer and his Lookout screaming down the broadcast about dying with V.LOUD horns been sounded in the background! hahaha!

put it this way we have never got the emergency propulsion motor (fed from DC Battery) on so quick to avoid what can only be described as potential sinking!

from 20knots to 0knots with a tanker behind doing 20knots on a constant bearing aint funny! thank god i was in the engine room to not witness that!

 

[bobby101]

just remembered i forgot to put brown sleeving on my 2 sets of two way lights cct no biggie you might say but guess what the installation is going to inspected tomorrow with select ohh fffine.. best bit its the bosses house double fffine. p45 in the post after tomro