What the funniest/cringeworthy things you've seen someone do on site ?

[Maddison]

There must be some good stories to tell. Please share them it can be anything but must be on site ?

 

[trbod]

i once seen a sparky clean up AFTER himself , still amaze ballsed to this day

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pipe jockey bashing time

 

[Marvo]

Evening Mr Bod.

How many plumbers does it take to change a light bulb?

None, because on 65 grand a year they can pay someone else to do it

 

[jimmymac]

What do you call someone that work's alongside skilled tradesmen? A plumber

 

[MDJ]

I watched an electrician drill a live busbar when I was an apprentice, sounds like I am lying but I swear it happened and he didn't even flinch, he knew what he was doing and had done it before, we were working on a factory machine which needed power and we could not switch off the power at all as it was running 24-7, this was around 1980 ish, I have never forgot it.

 

[ga8ry]

When I just started my apprenticeship the spark I was working with was a big fan of the licked finger, live test. :shocked:

 

[dingledong]

ga8ry
i still am
its good for you

 

[Andy78]

I once couldn't find a breaker to isolate and strip out an old switch fuse in a forgotten plant room in a hospital building. It could have been any one of hundreds, only about 20% were marked up, but I couldn't go switching off Willy nilly. Computers with hospital records, server rooms, x ray equipment etc.
My colleague told me to stop titting around, held a 6 inch nail in his pliers, and jammed it to a dead short. One flash and a bang later and we had our circuit isolated.

 

[paul_h]

A guy in my work has a set of "bang bang snips" if he doesn't know or can't figure out what circuit to isolate he cuts threw the cables to make it blow.

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

Not long into starting working with the company we were working in an office full of women. Mostly middle aged, they gossiping and dropping a few s-bombs and f-bombs as they were doing it.

Anyway the gaffer goes through the door, I gingerly followed and immediately the birds stop tweeting and one apologised for swearing.

I piped up and just came out with

"At least you didn't say c-bomb"

After the initial gasps, the silence was absolutely deafening, I just walked back out the door and cringed for the rest of the day.