One of the worst was on the same job as "The Naked Apprentice" ( see this Forum) which was a new ICU at a midland hospital.
Its toward the end of the job, the firm takes on a new guy. The first thing I thought strange was not only did he claim to have gone to the same school as myself but was in my class !!! Well I'd remember anyone from the same class , as most of would, this is about 7 years since leaving school.
Then the tools in his box were the biggest load of old junk you ever saw.
So our technician gets him to connect a couple of boards. There were two single phase metalclad boards ,mounted on trunking , a load of pyro,s all made off in the trunking ready to be connected.
One board is painted red , with lable saying " Sustained circuits from generator" The other is blue , "Non critical circuits" . The pyro tails are marked with red tape saying ,eg: "Ring - Ct3 -Critical Area"
Or blue tape " Plugs - corridor-Ct2" The guy proceeds to put some red tails into the blue board and some blue tails into the red board , but also managed to split ring mains ,so two cores in the red board and the other two in the blue board, while some of the lighting had the live in the red and the neutral in the blue.
Then just to confuse us further , Ct3 would be in 5 , Ct8 in 2 and so on . When I was putting it right , of course half the tails were now too short and had to be crimped , not the best on a new job.
Its toward the end of the job, the firm takes on a new guy. The first thing I thought strange was not only did he claim to have gone to the same school as myself but was in my class !!! Well I'd remember anyone from the same class , as most of would, this is about 7 years since leaving school.
Then the tools in his box were the biggest load of old junk you ever saw.
So our technician gets him to connect a couple of boards. There were two single phase metalclad boards ,mounted on trunking , a load of pyro,s all made off in the trunking ready to be connected.
One board is painted red , with lable saying " Sustained circuits from generator" The other is blue , "Non critical circuits" . The pyro tails are marked with red tape saying ,eg: "Ring - Ct3 -Critical Area"
Or blue tape " Plugs - corridor-Ct2" The guy proceeds to put some red tails into the blue board and some blue tails into the red board , but also managed to split ring mains ,so two cores in the red board and the other two in the blue board, while some of the lighting had the live in the red and the neutral in the blue.
Then just to confuse us further , Ct3 would be in 5 , Ct8 in 2 and so on . When I was putting it right , of course half the tails were now too short and had to be crimped , not the best on a new job.
