In the good old days ...........

[Evans Electric]

Anyone remember the bigger sites , sparks didn't do chasing out conduit drops or chopping boxes in ....you marked them all up and the builders did them .  All you did was dress a few lumps up to get it all flush .

Same with  holes in walls for trunking say ..........the reasoning was at the time , sparks had no  specialist knowledge about weakening walls , chasing under lintols , load bearing walls etc .    

 

[kerching]

I once had a site shutdown as I tried to knock a 'snot' Off a wall....as I was doing a labourer out of a job!

i as an Electrician was there to put wires in and connect them up.....NOTHING else

 

[Andy™]

sparks had no  specialist knowledge about weakening walls , chasing under lintols , load bearing walls etc .    

bit like the builders

 

[Evans Electric]

bit like the builders

:slap

 

[Tony S]

The company got rid of all the electricians mates as a cost cutting exercise. What the hell were we as electricians supposed to do?

Repair lighting (mates work), run conduit (mates work), clean panels (mates work). I wouldn’t go near a panel to do maintenance unless it had been cleaned down first.

 

[Evans Electric]

I once had a site shutdown as I tried to knock a 'snot' Off a wall....as I was doing a labourer out of a job!

i as an Electrician was there to put wires in and connect them up.....NOTHING else

 That soon changed didn't it .    I remember looking around and thinking how ridiculous ....we've got some good sparks here  chiselling  KO boxes in walls .  We took on   a labourer , which worked out well at the time .  Later spent a bit of time with him on fitting twin socket fronts and he'd do them all day long.  

 

[Evans Electric]

The company got rid of all the electricians mates as a cost cutting exercise. What the hell were we as electricians supposed to do?

Repair lighting (mates work), run conduit (mates work), clean panels (mates work). I wouldn’t go near a panel to do maintenance unless it had been cleaned down first.

Yes its always down to cost .   There was a time when you couldn't go out to a job alone , no cellphones then.  That soon stopped as our wages got a bit better.

 We would do a lighting job in offices say,    remove all the flat sheet diffs ,  re-lamp / new starters /any repairs  while the apprentice /mate 

would wash all the diffs and replace .  

When you become self employed you do the lot yourself. 

 

[Tony S]

Fortunately I’ve never been a SE electrician.

You’d be amazed at some of the demeaning things I’ve had to do in my sideline jobs to keep the show running.

 

[kerching]

Yes its always down to cost .   There was a time when you couldn't go out to a job alone , no cellphones then.  That soon stopped as our wages got a bit better.

 We would do a lighting job in offices say,    remove all the flat sheet diffs ,  re-lamp / new starters /any repairs  while the apprentice /mate 

would wash all the diffs and replace .  

When you become self employed you do the lot yourself. 

What's not to like about washing a 1200x600 prismatic diff , and giving it a shake dry, to see all the water running off like a frightened 70s TV star!

far better than lifting a ceiling tile and a dead and 'runny' rodent falling on your head....funny when it falls on the desk of the person below and sort of explodes on impact

 

[Tony S]

A young wet behind the ears apprentice asked how an electrician could work before the mobile phone came along. I tried to explain that if an urgent call came in and Ted was working at No5 Bogthorpe Ave Ted’s wife would call the nearest house with a phone and the neighbour would past the message on.

A totally alien concept to a youngster.

 

[Rob_the_rich]

A young wet behind the ears apprentice asked how an electrician could work before the mobile phone came along. I tried to explain that if an urgent call came in and Ted was working at No5 Bogthorpe Ave Ted’s wife would call the nearest house with a phone and the neighbour would past the message on.

A totally alien concept to a youngster.

getting up from sofa, walking to TV and changing the channel is too apparently.

 

[kerching]

Getting up,off their arris, getting a job and paying their way seems alien to a couple of people at least

 

[ProDave]

getting up from sofa, walking to TV and changing the channel is too apparently.

And if we told them you turned the telly on, and had to wait for it to warm up before the picture and sound appeared they would think we were avin a larf.
 

 

[ruston]

And if we told them you turned the telly on, and had to wait for it to warm up before the picture and sound appeared they would think we were avin a larf.
 

I have a 32"Sanyo  LED  that does exactly the same , and it is slow to change stations too. 

 It is not an old TV , but not young either.

 

[ProDave]

I have a 32"Sanyo  LED  that does exactly the same , and it is slow to change stations too.

 It is not an old TV , but not young either.

We have gone full circle.  From tv's with valves that needed to warm up, to solid state tv's what came on near instantly and changed channel instantly, to tv's with computers in them and you have to wait for the computer to boot up before it will turn on, and it changes channel when the software thinks it is ready to.
 

 

[ruston]

And adverts that exceed the total time of the programme - near enough.

 

[Sharpend]

And adverts that exceed the total time of the programme - near enough.

It's hard sometimes to distinguish between programme and advert these days?????

 

[ruston]

Have you noticed that they are nearly all on at the same time, you flick through when they come on and all you get is - more adverts.

 

[Tony S]

A simple solution, get rid of the television. I ditched mine four years ago, Carl S recently ditched his.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyjj8BgsBGU

 

[Sharpend]

I tend to agree, television is a thing of the past, there isn't much on it worth watching and even if there is I don't miss it if I miss it. Most Tv these days is either full of bad news or subliminal messages both of which I can do without. The days of great comedy has gone. Everything is so predictable.