ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area What is your pet peeve?

Now that is funny! Kinda like the episode of Seinfeld with the "holes".

[This message has been edited by GA76Apprentice (edited 12-10-2004).]

No offense inspectors - but inspectors that can't just keep a couple of protection plates in their truck...

CTwireman,
This is an International Forum here, we call "plugs" that for a reason.
As in Plug-Socket.
How does your "Tap-On" stand up?.

Clown and jerks who want to renegtiate the bill after the work is done even though the ssigned a contract.
Picky jerks who argue about very minor items as an excuse not to pay on time

Just get near finishing at a place and it's after 6pm and the H/O says, Oh while you're here......
You get a list of jobs, that they think will take you 5 minutes, instead it takes you more like 5 hours, you miss Dinner and are late home to bed and chances are, you won't even be offered a cup of tea.
I love them kind of customers, as they are the first to whinge about the bill!.

Promises, promises, and more promises!

I am still waiting!

Hmmm...let's see...people who borrow tools without asking and having to go clear across the jobsite to get them...people who have great electrical skills but the social skills of a Rock...know it alls...tec screws that stab me when I put my hand in my pouch...getting to a job and forgetting my screw gun because I was charging it last nite...uggghhhh

Rude cigarette smokers. Where's my cup of gasoline when I need it?

Journeymen who have no hammer drill or sawzall and most other tools, but don't have a problem asking me for mine.

Thieves on the job site.

Bosses who don't like to answer questions.

Bosses who don't give you the benefit of the doubt that you know how to do the work, treat you like a retard, then mismanage the labor force because they don't realize how much each man can really do.

Foremen who don't keep material on the job. I must spend 2 hours a day looking for material we don't have through piles of material scattered all over the place.

Companies that keep you for a year, then lay you off when it's paid vacation time.

Guys who are working on a ladder, see me walking by 75 feet away and ask me to go get something for them that's 30 feet from them.

Other side of the coin Joe,
I was involved in the re-wiring of a house that was badly damaged by fire.
I was sitting down and having a cup of tea with the family and I asked the little girl that was sitting on my knee what she would like the new place to have.
She said that Mum wanted a TV in her bedroom because when she came home from work it was too late to watch it in the lounge.
So the wires were run, coax and a socket were installed.
I dug out an old 20" TV set from my collection and repaired it (Faulty Fly-back Transformer) and the picture was so good I didn't want to let it go!.
There is good and bad in any trade.
Everyone was happy!.
And what a nice cup of tea!!!.

When people strip too much jacket off SO cords in cord plugs.

When people cut into conductor insulation when installing cord connectors and cord plugs.

When people replace a fuse with whatever size they can find on hand, as long as it is a higher rating than the one that opened!!!

Fuses installed with the rating label facing the back of the fuse block, making it impossible to see if all (3) are same rating, and correct.

Bosses who have no idea how long it takes to do perform tasks properly, and ask me why it took me so long to get the job done.