Pet hates

[trev]

How about when the gaffer asks "Can you pop into xxxxx and do yyy it'll only take 10 minutes on your way home"
Yeah right

 

[ipf]

Half baked specifications done by idiot designers or architects who don't know the first thing about electrics. Then waiting ages for on site meetings or answers:banghead:

 

[Kiers1970]

When you go see Customer, give a decent price, only to be looked at lime you've mugged their grandparents.

 

[trev]

The phrase "The electrician who came out yesterday said that bonding thing wasn't needed"

 

[ipf]

Dirty would be clients giving your quote to another to see if they can do better. Total ******s.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Mine are: 1.Nowhere to get a bacon sandwich
2. Vending machines i have to pay for to get a cuppa.....FFS
3. Circuits not labelled and or labelled in-correctly making me look a total plonker when i knock off the computers.
4. Clients buying **** and saying "I've already got the parts"
5 . All plasterers
6. All plumbers.
7. Builders who damage my cables - that would be all builders
8. HMRC's online tax stuff
9. Price of diesel
10. Bank charges
11. Clients who aren't ready when its convenient for me.
12. Suppliers who cannot get me a simple friggin isolater thats holding the whole friggin job up.
13. Price of wine and smokes :-(

 

[jase]

Twisted cables usually earths or all the earths in 1 sleeve

absolutley my pet peeve too, bad enough in sockets, but when you have to pull apart a whole fuseboard just to get an R1+R2 on one RFC :banghead:

 

[Richard Burns]

absolutley my pet peeve too, bad enough in sockets, but when you have to pull apart a whole fuseboard just to get an R1+R2 on one RFC :banghead:

I also found recently I had bad continuity results and tugged the cables in all the sockets and they did not move but found after two hours that the twisted together cables were lodging on the screws, but the screws were loose, thank you someone!

 

[Paul.M]

Other sparks using my tools for the wrong purpose and/or lossing them! (yes Matthew I'm talking about you if your watching).

 

[DurhamSparky]

know it alls....!! plenty out there...!!

 

[jase]

even worse, know it f***alls, who still persist on taking on work that give the rest of us a bad name!!

 

[sparkdog]

Resident "handymen" who have been adding bodges for years and customers who don't supply any food or tea.

 

[jumpin jax]

Dirty would be clients giving your quote to another to see if they can do better. Total ******s.

also giving your quote to another firm and saying do it for that price and the job is yours after you have already beaten their quote!!!

 

[brooky25]

Twisted earths in one sleeving.
Diy Bri wiring earth into neutral at all light fittings, Thanks for holding my C.u change up all day
Diy Bri again deciding to split Ring L+E into 15amp junction boxes under floorboards but leaving neutrals connected.
Arrrrgh

 

[Guest112]

imbeciles that cut cpc's off=== because they don't do anything, do they.

plumbers, builders, kitchen fitters that think they can install electrical circuits.

Or domestic installers lol

 

[D80]

Twisted earths in 1 sleeving
The above, but with 1 broken earth
Being undercut by a cowboy
Dominic Littlewood
Matt Allwright

 

[ipf]

Members of MENSA shouting their mouths off.

 

[DNS1]

Members of MENSA shouting their mouths off.

hilarious...

 

[ipf]

hilarious...

Not meant to be funny............................really.

 

[DNS1]

Really? Just a coincidence then... Fair enough.