Pet hates

[onions1066]

young boys who assume they know it all and answering their constantly ringing cell phones to their untrusting girl feinds
-----rs

you lads who call me blood and bredge. My name is Steve it always has been and always will be ( at least until the operation anyway :gorgeous

 

[Taylortwocities]

Something reminded me today of one of my pet hates.....
Bloomin' carpet gripper strip. Slashes your fingers to ribbons, and the wounds stay nasty for a couple of weeks..

 

[ETradesmen]

The nuts on them ****ing up and down wall lights.

Great design...

 

[ETradesmen]

People that only use 2mm of brown sleeving.

tight ****s.

i could write a 1000 things...

 

[ETradesmen]

T+E clips used on flex GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[ETradesmen]

Tape measure snapping when measuring spots...

(fat max 7.5M)

 

[accordfire]

Phone ringing at 05:30 and the P***k on the other end asking if I have found Jesus yet. I sh*t you not.

I can't print my reply. Anyhoo, I'm awake and committing that particular cult's biggest sin...COFFEE.

 

[tigerpaul]

Tray screwed to the wall back to front.
People that say "in terms of" all the bloody time!
Stuck up people.
Middle lane hoggers.
Teenage shop assistants that don't give a f!
Lying bosses!
Lying agencies!
Payment companies that charge blokes a fee to get their own money!
Young lads at work that are full of it and don't listen,
Do gooders/jobsworths
Ed miliband
Reality tv
Pikeys
Nob heads that turn up on the job with hardly any tools then want to borrow everyone else's
That'll do for now

 

[Taylortwocities]

Don't get me started on light fittings. Not just wall lights:
screws on those ceiling lights that aren't long enough to line up with the fixing bracket
Floodlight brackets that mean you have to fit a half inch screw, a nut and two washers while 15ft up a ladder.

I think that the MD of lighting companies should, BY LAW, be made to install every one of their products before they are sold on the market.!!

 

[indy]

Other sparks who think they can take tools out of my tool bag with out asking.

 

[telectrix]

plumbers, kitchen fitters, & builders that know more about electrics than the IET.

 

[glasgospark]

geeks on electrical forums

 

[Pat Tester]

People whose idea of clearing up ready for me is to push the cat litter tray under the bed so I can stick my hand in warm crap.

 

[glasgospark]

pat testers yuuuughk

 

[accordfire]

pat testers yuuuughk

PAT testING --- YUK!

 

[stueelad]

Customers who think you can just magic cables anywhere they want

 

[pete555]

apprentices who won,t make the tea properly and think the world owes them a living

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

Forklift drivers, one of them ran over and mullered one of my SWAs today, and didnt own up or apologise :furious3:

 

[Guest112]

old school sparks who think apprentices should make tea...

 

[onions1066]

old school sparks who think apprentices should make tea...

Apprentices who think they shouldn't make tea

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

everyone should have tea

 

[Guest112]

Apprentices who think they shouldn't make tea

but i never drank tea during my apprenticeship nor do I now... think of what the apprentice might do to your tea, my mate used to rub his bellend around the rim of the cups everytime he was told to make the tea...

and if your wondering, the person on the site who made the tea had to get to the cabin before everyone to start making it giving him plenty of time...

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

but i never drank tea during my apprenticeship nor do I now... think of what the apprentice might do to your tea, my mate used to rub his bellend around the rim of the cups everytime he was told to make the tea...

and if your wondering, the person on the site who made the tea had to get to the cabin before everyone to start making it giving him plenty of time...

dude, that is GRIM!

 

[dim_bulb]

I'll have coffee thanks.
btw customers should make tea.

 

[dan86]

can't stand coffee. even the smell. couldn't even drink the stuff to be polite if anyone made me one.
I'm a tea man, always have been and always will be

 

[dim_bulb]

I can always tell when I doing work at a nice house because I get lovely filtered coffee and not some morrisons sludge

 

[onions1066]

Bell end round the rim! How continental, forget the latte ill have bell end flavoured one please, two sugars no milk just cream!

Now that's pretty grim

 

[sparkdog]

Working in the same space as any of the other trades.Just on one job alone plumber cuts the main 16mm earth in two places under the floorboards,painter ruins sockets with solvent and paint,chippy pulls 13A sockets off and bodges reconnecting them,floor gets screwed down before I'm finished,someone just had to install a light fitting on my new cable and bodged it."Where's me ladder gone?Who blocked my access with plaster board,Who installed the insulation before I was finished??"Aaaaarrrrggghhh!!!

 

[firespark]

No metal cable ties, or fixings rated to the same fire rating as the cable its supporting on fire alarm installations...

 

[frank3323]

house bashers calling themselves electricians bring it on!

 

[rmc86uk]

Multi million pound M&E firms who haven't got a clue how to run a job! The initials start with BB come to mind!

 

[rmc86uk]

Multi million pound M&E firms who haven't got a clue how to run a job! Initials starting with BB springs to mind!

 

[Guitarist]

house bashers calling themselves electricians bring it on!

People from industrial backgrounds thinking they can do house-bashing without reading the regs

 

[kingeri]

People who only secure knockout boxes with one screw. Or fit shallow boxes leaving a massive gap. Or 'forget' to fit grommets. Or, having fitted a grommet, pull too many cables through and the grommet comes out but they just leave it. Or stuff loads of wires behind a light switch and force them into place with the accessory. Muck spreaders who leave gaps around knockouts so big I need to go to wholesalers and buy a bag of plaster. People who twist CPCs together. Folk who cut the wires in boxes too short to reach accessory terminals. Hmm I want to go home.

 

[johnboy6083]

People who leave loads of copper showing on terminations, working on old gear where the maintenance staff leave loose earth connections or disconnected, ground workers who install ducting with loads of bends on it, to save them 10 mins extra on a core drill!!
people who bolt the banjo to the gland plate, but don't use a fly lead, and don't scrape any paint away, thereby making the banjo useless!

 

[kingeri]

The job I'm on today is terrible, really shoddy workmanship throughout. The guy who did it has 'disappeared' since I came and badmouthed his work. I've just unscrewed one of the sockets he's 'finished' and the neutrals just popped out of the terminal. He hasn't tightened up any of the connections, just poked the wires in. I've had to take everything off and start again. Problem is gonna be working out where he's routed some of the cables, cos I don't trust any of it. In the cellar, just looking where the cables have been pulled through holes in the joists, there are a few where the sheath has been stripped off, found one so far where the line insulation has also been ragged off, leaving exposed live copper. Quality. Also seems to have 'recycled' some old red/black cable, passing it off as new.

 

[Des 56]

Phone ringing at 05:30 and the P***k on the other end asking if I have found Jesus yet. I sh*t you not.

I can't print my reply. Anyhoo, I'm awake and committing that particular cult's biggest sin...COFFEE.

I take it you had been out looking for him Bill lol

 

[singingfraggle]

any sentance beginning with

"I thought you could just"
or
" if you just"

 

[frank3323]

new employees who walk slowly, HATE IT! at least pretend you want a job!!! and sparks who have a bigger flask and sandwich box that their tool box, and sparks who borrow tools, BUY YOUR OWN!! and sparks who think that their foreman has never done what they are doing, better! and anyone who does not charge drill battery's when they change them, and i really, really, really, hate any tradesman that thinks the world owes them a living, a fair days pay for a fair days work mate!... i better go and calm down...

 

[Essexboy7]

People who call a fuseboard a fusebox

Apprentices who walk round with their hands in their pockets and talk in that stupid street talk

Foremen who ask if you have "finished that little job i gave you?",when its about 3 days work for 2 men and you have only been on it 2 hours

When you are balanced on a rickety scaffold or tall steps doing something really fiddly and you ask the mate/apprentice for a couple of screws and they give you 1 or 2 NOOO!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME HALF A DOZEN OR TEN !!!!!!!!!!You can see theres a good chance i am going to drop them



People who take things like rawlpugs and put the empty boxes back in the stores

when you have left a nice bit of slack on a coil of cable and plasterers cut it down to about 6 inches because they cant be bothered to tie them up

When you are running a job and you get the clever so and so who wants to have an input on every single thing you tell them to do or make a suggestion on how to do it better or asked if you have thought about this or that.


I could go on..................

 

[glasgospark]

customers that say
"guy off gumtree is half the price"

 

[Robson689]

<snip>

When you are balanced on a rickety scaffold or tall steps doing something really fiddly and you ask the mate/apprentice for a couple of screws and they give you 1 or 2 NOOO!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME HALF A DOZEN OR TEN !!!!!!!!!!You can see theres a good chance i am going to drop them

<snip>

Well... If you want half a dozen screws (6) don't ask for a couple (2)

 

[dan86]

you mentioned gumtree in another post. must be an issue down there..!

 

[glasgospark]

you mentioned gumtree in another post. must be an issue down there..!

down where

 

[dan86]

Glasgow...

 

[glasgospark]

hmmmmmmm ,,gumtree reference is simply a refrence to out of work/cowboy /non qualified sparks

 

[tommo1]

People who borrow your earth sleeve and can't be bothered to find the end and just cut into it.

 

[telectrix]

far worse is them who twist cpc's together then shove them into 1 piece of sleeving. AAARRRGGGH.

 

[tommo1]

Very annoying when it comes to testing

 

[Toby Kuhnert]

Working late at night in a commercial building that is haunted!! (old mental asylum) haha