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med6753:

--- Quote from: Peter_O on July 04, 2022, 07:01:20 pm ---Sometime it's the basics.
After 9 years of heavy use the first switches in my remote switch box of 2x8 multiple sockets started sparking badly, despite rated for 16 Amps.

Fortunately they were still avalable and the connectors are spade plugs.
Good for the next 9 years.



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Holy crap. That far exceeds the maximum number of interconnected wires per box as per the USA electrical code. That would never get UL or Canadian CSA approval here. 

mnementh:

--- Quote from: Vince on July 04, 2022, 07:21:42 pm ---Dragon : bon appétit !  :-+

Phones : here, and for my job, it's not at all like that. Employers are not allowed to force you to use your personal phone or computer or internet connection or anything that's yours.

If tehy want to be able to contact you by phone, or expect you to do something with a phone, they have to buy one and allocate it to you. Of course the work phone stays at work and if they call you at 17h01 when your official working hours end at 17h00, too bad, empliyer can't expect you to answer the phone, you are supposed to have already left your desk and stored the phone in a drawer.

Of course employers are cheap, so they never gave me a smartphone. Only a dumb 5 Euros phone, that's all they want to pay. Plus they are so crap that the sound is horrible and cuts all the time, it's painful at best. Even airbus doesn't use them to contact us, they just catch me in the workshop when they see me that's all. If it can wait a few minutes, they just call my manager instead, who will then send me an e-mail. Yes Airbus could send me an e-mail directly, to save time, but it's not how it works.

I understand that for hugh value highly technical jobs like you people do, you might be expected and required to have a fancy smartphone. But my line of business is hardly as shiny as yours, A quality inspector here is not much better considered than an illiterate worker on an automotive assembly line, that puts wipers on cars all day long all year long.

Here unless you are a manager, a white collar, you just don't exist basically...

Now as a quality inspector I am in between white and blue collar, I guess. I don't get my hands dirty and I have a desk and computer, but I reside and work all day long in the workshop...
I am a kind of hybrid !  :-DD


I hope Dragon enjoyed his meal. As for me I ahve already finished my pasta with grated cheese. The latte costing3 times more than the pasta, I ought to use less of the stuff if I want to save money  :palm:
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I think you're going to find in this current round of job-hunting, as I did decades ago, that the entire world is moving to a "gig economy".

In the real world, you are your primary employer. If you don't provide adequately for your employee (you), s/he is not going to get the decent-paying jobs, and neither of you are going make good money. And quite rightly; you have nobody but your employer (you) to blame.

The "gig economy" just makes thinking this way a necessity, where once upon a time we had the luxury of wandering aboot and hoping we find a nut like the proverbial blind squirrel, or hoping a friend drops something in your lap.

Well, my friend... your friend did just that...now you need to step up your game and be the employee your primary employer (you) and your potential new employer need you to be.

There has to be a way for you to attend this meeting. Even if you have to book a slot at the library and use one of their PCs, or beg a friend (or even a enemy ;)) to let you use a modern computing device.

Otherwise, you're just another proverbial buggy-whip manufacturer, obsoleting yourself out of the workplace. :-//

Good luck, my friend.

Now get the fuck out of your employee's way and let you get this job!!!

mnem

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: mnementh on July 04, 2022, 06:19:38 pm ---Happy COLONIAL REVOLT DAY everybody!!!   :-DD

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And a Happy Treasonous Traitor's Sedition Day to you too. :-DD

mnementh:


       BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

mnem
Aye... I cannae deny it; may as well embrace it and enjoy the party.  :-DD

med6753:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 04, 2022, 07:55:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 04, 2022, 06:19:38 pm ---Happy COLONIAL REVOLT DAY everybody!!!   :-DD

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And a Happy Treasonous Traitor's Sedition Day to you too. :-DD

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Oh go piss up a rope.  :-DD

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