General contractor was impatient to get temporary power so he jumpered the meter.
I might have known there was a GC involved with this, with only seeing the picture.
"I run the site, you do as you are told on the site, what I say goes on the site, I make the laws and rules on the site"
No Electrician would lower themselves to this level, especially using a redneck thing like LV Jumper leads.