Sorry guys but here comes another.
I arrive at a lady's home in the dead of winter. Her furnace is not working. As I enter the basement I find a "gas company" service IDIOT who has totally pooched the wiring OEM style of the unit.
This idiot walks over to the load center and "wiggles" a breaker and then looks at the HO and declares it an "electrician/ground" problem {how many times do we hear that one}
Then this moron walks off the job.
Out of concern and curtosy I call the Utility and have to fight the supervisor to send back some real serviceman to fix what the said idiot did.
He yells at me and says its an electrcal problem and says "YOU FIX IT!.
I call a local HVAC contrator I trust and he comes over and rewires the OEM back to spec.
I didnt make a dime. Why? No it wasnt reversed polarity. It wasnt the" bad ground".
It was the perception of the HO that the electrician was the problem when I hadnt even done any work. I verified the circuit and polarity but the damn unit was butchered by the gas utility.
Of all the single most sayings to haunt an electrician and more used by morons and idiots its got to be:
Its not grounded properly, or its got a bad ground.
GAAAAH!!!
