Anyone taken on what they'd call a "stressfull" job??

[Evans Electric]

In our previous incarnation we did a lot of hospital work. So a firm of outside consultants (Elect) were called in to upgrade the main switchgear for the Xray dept in a major Birmingham hospital .

The plan was to have a new switchgear panel made to measure, strip out the switchroom of all the ancient pre-war gear and fit new panel.

Shut it down on the Friday at 5.00 pm ....back up and working by Monday morning...simples. We won the job and I was blessed with organising it ,as per usual. Had the panel built ,about 4m X 3m , and heavy. Got that as far as an unused room on skates , then spent two weeks planning for everything that could go wrong , even down to spare drills in case one packed up.

Also one of our smaller wholesalers on standby to open up out of hours. (bigger ones not interested)

All the SWAs and big pyros were imperial sizes so pyro terms had to be removed and re-used although we managed to lose some in the trunking . 2" imp. conduits with VIRs to be rewired. Nightmare!!!

With two shifts of 5 guys and 1 apprenti. worked through Friday night, all Saturday , most of Saturday night , finished on Sunday afternoon . No sign of the consultants of course.

Two of us took the Transit down to clear all our gear away on Monday morning , theres the Electrical Consultant proudly showing a bunch of suits what he,d achieved . :|

 

[Zeespark]

T0sser (not you Deke, the 'consultant'), hate those types of people. bad day explode :red cardX(

AndyGuinness

 

[johninlondon1]

got a temprary job to reconcile the insurance policies of motobility finance as a temp, was told i had 6 weeks as they were putting it out to tender, I was given a printout of over a thousand pages to go through over 250,000 policies and analyse the days left on each policy. Got bored so had current insurer send me the printout to me on disc, 2 days later with the disc done a spreedsheet and had it all done by end of the day. Boss and finance director thought i had made it up and i just told them i worked fast and was smart, after analyising they agreed all was ok and ended my 6 week job after 3 days.

 

[Revved Up Sparky]

I think the most stressful jobs, in my experience, are possibly the ones where a specific time limit has been agreed for the job to be completed and due to unforeseen circumstances you become in danger of reaching that time limit- or even worse, going over that time limit, sometimes resulting in lots of people jumping up and down demanding to know when the power is going to be back on.

For example, last week I replaced a 3 phase 200 amp switchfuse that controlled the electrical distribution to 75% of a leisure centre. After requesting a time window of at least 8 hours I was given a time window of 5 hours and the public were given a weeks notice via large notices that the centre would be closed for 5 hours. To cut a long story short I discovered too late that the new switchfuse was slightly smaller than the old one resulting in me struggling for ages (in a smaller space) to try and bend the 120mm tails to make them line up with the top terminals. I decided I had to cut the tails down and recrimp them, could I find any 120mm crimps ? nope ! I had to get someone to drive a 60 mile round trip to get them. Then one of the female threads stripped- argh.... the job took an unbelievable 13 hours to get finished. Loads of swimming classes, squash games, aerobics, blah blah had to be cancelled...... ohhhhhhhh the stress of it all.

 

[Andy™]

Had the panel built ,about 4m X 3m , and heavy. Got that as far as an unused room on skates

not my mistake, but i deliver lots of panels like this of all different sizes. the amount of sites ive been to where they try and get the panel inside, only to realise that its bigger than the door, or the fact 2 people cant pick up and carry a 500kg panel, is quite high

 

[Evans Electric]

Thats a good point Andy , we went through loads of doorways so it must have been door height .

 

[steptoe]

most of mine,

down to the fact that some numpty has been out, looked at the job and says,

no problem, a day,

headbang

one of the worst was a machine changeover

(spoke about this before)

left list of materials to office, 5m lengths of dual unistrut,

what got delivered, 3m lengths, office didnt think it mattered as long as there was no waste at the 21m I needed using 3m lengths,

FFS, I had 4'5m spans and NO joints!!!!!!!

5hr job turned into 20+ hrs

headbang

 

[Evans Electric]

Frightening !!!!

 

[steptoe]

Im on my second wife,

does being a husband count?

cos its f'in stressful!!! :|

 

[Sidewinder]

Hmm Lobster for tea then Canoe!

 

[Theorysparky]

I got one

sifting through some of the questions asked on this forum !!!!

answering them politely

and trying to keep the mods of my back !!!!!!!! :innocent

 

[Nicky Tesla]

Yes - All large projects we do on Extruders are full of stresswe had to pay for the dead lobsters, when your talking of 10 to 20 tonnes of lobsters thats not good :slap

did it make you crabby

 

[Badger]

i have also got one stressful job at the moment building all the graveyard and punpkins for the halloween night show, jeez its mannick here at the mo.

 

[Evans Electric]

Badge ....do you ever do any actual paying work !!!!!

 

[husky2013]

We had one yesterday, Commercial property, being turned into a newsagents/off licence by our Middle eastern european friends ( you all know whom im referring to)

wanted some sockets relocating, additional sockets, cables tidying, Sign Lights putting up. Emergency Exit Illuminated Sign, PIR, and Certificates. Agreed on a price on thursday afternoon, and they wanted us to do it friday! so off we went and got the parts, and started 9.30 friday morning. All day we had an audience of them all speaking in a native tongue (to be politically correct) Whilst streetlighter was conducting some tests i decided to make a start on relocating a socket, once id finished it, one of the audience members, told his friend that had just arrived 'lady wired that sockety lady wired' shaking his head! then they wanted a light switch moving, and then moving again, then the sign lights putting higher so we positioned them where they wanted them, and they ended up lower then where we originally put them. Completed the job, and asked for payment, and got ' You want paying?' my response ERMMM YES! then i got ' i pay half now half tomorrow' and agreed on it then the cheeky begger today when he asked how much he owed us and we told him, he turned and decided he deserved

 

[Evans Electric]

Sounds like par for the course TBH......... you're better off staying at home !!