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Electricians - an awkward bunch to deal with
MrMobodies:
Well this electrical engineer started at a college and was actually working at a security firm too and they did mostly practical there in the 80's. They installed or built long distance power supplies to controls and electric door locks at the time. Unfortunately in the 1990's I heard they got rid of the electrical engineering stuff that stuff and some people who did theirs that I spoke in the 2000's said to me it mostly academic for them and they did very little practical until they started working.
I was at this building firm about 6 years ago, I went with this electrician to network cable the bosses house whilst he ran some 28? amp cooker cable in a ring main (56 amp both ways) for an electric oven in a new kitchen that they extended. He had this assistant who just passed his course from the local college which they got from the Job Center but the electrician didn't like him or want him there. Apparently he was on his phone most of the time tapping away, didn't help the electrician and refused to clean up. Well I cleaned up after myself with the electrician at the end of the day.
So after I finished my stuff I helped the electrician run some of that mains cable through the ceiling of the extension so it didn't get tangled whilst he was upstairs pulling it. Whilst that was happening the lad was in the extension sitting on a work stool staring at his phone looking comically like a little mouse.
I heard them at the office talking about keeping this assistant enrolled there just for his qualifications without him actually coming in (I don't know for what purpose it was suppose to serve them but I didn't ask) as the electricians didn't want him there anymore and called him a waste of a space and they let him go after a year.
RJSV:
Working in an assistant position, I noticed right away the licenced guys were keenly aware, of safety and legal responsibilities, (as it should be). I needed only minor instruction, for some repetitive outlet assembly tasks. They were very close, to regular interior carpenters, building some structural stuff (underneath) boxes, etc.
Those folks always, always took the time, to do things right,...as a matter of professional pride. To this day, I sometimes venture (Google Earth) back to view that 5 story building, downtown San Francisco...it's a lawyer's office now.
AVGresponding:
I know this video is linked elsewhere on the forum, but it seems appropriate to link it here too, given the talk around lethality of various voltages and currents:
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