YSaC, Vol. 1349: Tesla girls, Tesla girls …
LOOKING FOR AN ELECTRICIAN INSTRUCTOR
We are looking for an instructor that knows everything about being an Electrician.
If it was voluntarily it would be nice but if you require pay we can talk about it.
I run a small Electric/Controls business. I would like to teach them myself but I have to much on my hands. My guys know more or less what theyre doing but they are not certified nor have any knowledge about the work being done. I would like to have them learn some things about what theyre doing. If you can get them certified then that would be great.
I have a small office with warehouse or if you know where we can do some teaching then please let me know.
CALL, TEXT, or email me.
Phone number is xxx xxx xxxx
Translation:
I’m sending my workers out to play with high-voltage electrical wires with no training and no clue. Can you help me limit my liability but not charge me?
Sometimes the “this can only end badly” tag just speaks for itself, doesn’t it?
Thanks, Jodi!
[practice law corey]
Much as I lament the change in Texas law who was required to work for pay on “line voltage” items, such laws are “written in blood.” It is not always the guilty who suffer, either; many of the ad-hoc nightmares work, as expedients do. They always require special, local, knowledge, and that is what puts paid to someone’s dreams, limbs, or life.
So, while I used to have a nice sideline in improving switching, creating lighting scenes (mind you I could pass the Texas’ JM Electrical exam), I am comfortable with the law being in place. I’d be more comfortable if others heeded (or were aware of) said laws.
[/corey]
Like what, dealing with your insurance carrier and opposing counsel?
Your guys know what they’re doing, but they have no knowledge of what they’re doing, so you’d like to have them learn some things about what you just said they know. Preferably free of charge to you. And you advertise that state of affairs to the general public? Uh huh.
He said more or less. Obviously it’s more less and less more.
This is precisely where more state Licensing & Registration Boards ought have more obvious places to report this sort of behavior.
It’s the little things, the itty-bitty things (oops, wandered off into Robert Keen there). Prime example is a 3-way switch.
World’s simplest logical .OR. device. Ever.
Screwed up 6 ways to Sunday, too. It’s a miracle any of them work, really.
Diagrams just like this:
Power ==> SW1 ==> SW2 —->Fixture–>(fixture, fixture, etc.)
But, that is [whiney]complicated, so you see:
Power==>SW1===>[fixture(s)]<===SW2<==Power
This will work, but, too many also "know" you can go a wire size 'down' on the switch legs. They just forget that is only between the switches. Even better, the “hot” going into SW1 is on a different bus than on SW2. Meaning, one of the switch state conditions possible is 120VAC in plus 120VAC in–a tiny 220VAC welding circuit.
So many little, finicky details, that you have to flat-out just know, and not just the once, but every single time you do them. And not just some guess from the boss handy person who may or may not have heard it from their cousin’s nephew’s sister’s uncle’s neighbor-boy who sat it on DIY network that one time.
“My guys know more or less what they’re doing but they [do not] have any knowledge about the work being done.”
Well, I know I’m supposed to climb up this telephone pole… based on my last job I assume I’m supposed to shout “Do you want fries with that?” at passing motorists.
I am sooooo picturing this and giggling my fool head off…
*wipes tears*
Whew…thank you Digi…I need the laugh.
The catchall moniker of “Sparky” has never felt more appropriate.
Remember folks, the sound of BZZT and a smell of charred meat is NOT a good thing when working on an electrical panel. Or anything electrical.
Just my little PSA this morning.
I have it on good authority that if you jam a Juicy Fruit gum wrapper into the socket of an old lamp and then turn it on you can make a loud sizzling noise and a big blue flash, but then that wall outlet won’t work anymore.
Would this good authority be also called personal experience? 8)
It is within the realm of possibility 😉
*shakes ghostie vigourously*
Well, now it says “Try Again”….not sure I’d go with that one.
*shakes ghostie vigorously*
“It’s Possible”…hmmm…..
I feel dizzy…
Scissors in the wall outlet can cut your lifespan in half. That’s certified. *snip*
You’ll notice the “Sparky” tag in use here.
“but I have to much on my hands”
Would that be too much blood on your hands?
I’m surprised he still has hands, if he learned what he knows the way he expects his employees to learn.
No, the way that sentence comes off, “have to” goes together and “much” becomes a verb. He has to much. On his hands. I’m not sure how one muches, but I don’t really want to find out, either.
Sparky should learn how to budget his muching time better so he doesn’t end up having to much too much all at once.
Maybe Sparky has to munch on his/her hands. Because of, you know, the tasty charred bits.
I was brought up not to much on my hands. It’s unhygienic.
Hey, it’s a lot of work ducking Immigration, the tax men, Building Inspectors, survivors/estates of your previous clients . . .
Especially while also rounding up more “workers” who will work without licenses in dangerous jobs for $3-4 per day . . .
My father-in-law and brother-in-law are both certified electrical contractors, and they have an enormous number of certificates for a wide variety of tasks on the walls of their office. I couldn’t tell you how many, if any, are periodic recertifications, but the idea of this guy getting any work… wait, no. “We abuse our employees and pass the savings on to you.”
Hey Sparky: Hire the electrician to do your work for you.
[yet another corey]
In some fairness, several States, Texas among them, it is possible to be a licensed “Electrical Contractor” and not have any electrical skills or license.
That person is allowed to pull permits, but, they must (in Texas at least) have a JM or Master Electrician actually do the work. (State law requires any work on line (e.g. 120VAC or above) voltage have a JM present, and actively supervising any other employees present; there’s pages of what constitutes “active supervision,” common practice is that it’s 1:4 JM to helpers.)
I’ll just doubt right here and now that Sparky has even looked into licensing.
And that the last ‘permit’ associated with Spark’ involved either a hall pass or automobile operation . . .
[/corey]
Well hot damn! Here, somebody hold my beer while I go get these boys some learnin’ on this here line transfirmer.
Jiggle the handle! Oh…is that my plumbing mastery? I so confuse the two.
Does anyone besides me think that Boss Sparky would like to teach them himself but can’t because he doesn’t know anything either?
What’s there to know? Anyone with a lick of sense can tell you that you just take the wire in the red insulation and the wire in the black insulation and AAAAAAAARRRGH! I meant to do that. Really. I have my reasons.
I don’t think you’re supposed to lick the wires.
Wow, I like the new do on the ferret!
Sparky: single-handedly bringing back the punk and new wave hairstyles of the 70s and 80s.
Sparky’s School of Electricmagiggers Final Exam:
When you hear the word “transformer”, you think of:
a.) Autobots
b.) AC/DC
c.) Metallica
d.) The Treaty of Versailles
e.) Ohm’s law of Resistance
f.) Ohm’s law of Buddhism
g.) Man’s Inhumanity to Man
h.) “More than meets the eye”
i.) ASUS’s line of Android tablets with keyboards
j.) profit
k.) someone who used to be a trans…
No, forget I said that.
…porter. Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
l.) Puppies.
m.) Transbeforers
n.) Transafters
o.) Hot tranny mess
p.) biscuits
Heh heh. “P.”
i. Decepticons!!
I’m so happy it’s all been multiple choice this week. At least I have a chance of getting a passing grade.
Dear Sparky,
I’m a psychologist in need of some vict- er, volunteers for some advanced methods that, for some reason, my last three universities and certifying body have “frowned upon.” They’re just not as forward-thinking as you or I. I have extensive experience in the electrical area, particularly as it related to conductivity through non-metal and non-wood surfaces. Perhaps we could reach a mutually beneficial arrangement?
Sincerely,
S. Milgram, Jr.
Electricity is fun, I’m your guy.
I cannot throw enough doors at you for that reference.
Dear Sparky,
I’m sorry I cannot volunteer to teach your guys all about electricity. I’m already booked for the week, teaching monkeys how to do brain surgery. We are, however, looking for volunteers for them to practice on and I think you’d be perfect for the job. We cannot pay you, but we can arrange a nice room, complete with bed and very-nearly clean sheets that you may stay in until we yank the stent out.
Please respond if you are interested.
Surgically Yours,
Xenia Recordia, Keeper of Figtail Feifings and;
Brain Surgery-Thingy Instructor
“monkeys how to do brain surgery”
Ahem. I assume that was meant as a slam. I’ll have you know that if you put a thousand monkeys in a room with a thousand typewriters, we WILL be able to do successful brain surgery. Here, I’ll prove it:
(1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) = (1/50)6 = 1/15 625 000 000
There. Argue with that, all you haters.
Come take note, my ‘lectric anecdote.
It may cause some grinning.
Let me quote my ‘lectric anecdote.
I’ll start from the beginning.
I worked on a horse ranch for a few years. One of my responsibilities was to check the several miles of electric fence on the property. We used electric tape rather than a bare wire so the horses could see it and avoid it. Since nobody knew where the tester was, I would test the fence by hand. I never could get anybody else to check it that way. I don’t understand why. It wasn’t lethal or anything. I’d just touch the fence and if it was working, I’d spasm. If it wasn’t working, I’d have to keep touching until I found where it was broken. (electric tape is a woven nylon tape with fine wires woven into it, so it was not easy to find where the break was.) I would generally tie a piece of jumper tape across the break to continue the circuit. For some reason, I found this part of my job enjoyable. Nothing wrong with a little shock therapy.
Why are you looking at me like that?
I’m not
wiredweird.This…this explains a LOT.
LOOKING FOR A BRAIN SURGEON INSTRUCTOR
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We are looking for an instructor that knows everything about being a Brain Surgeon.
If it was voluntarily it would be nice but if you require pay we can talk about
how ridiculous that soundsit.I run a small Lemonade Stand/Bungee Jumping business. Sometimes there are accidents. I would like to teach them [my minions] myself but I have too much
bloodon my hands. My guys know more or less [there was this one time however…] what they’re doing but they are not certified to work on brains nor have any knowledge about the work being done regarding brains. Or lemonade. I would like to have them learn some things about what they’re doingwrong. If you can get them certified then that would bea miraclegreat.I have a small
laboratoryoffice ina castlewarehouse or if you know where we can do somecranium cuttingteaching then please let me know.CALL, TEXT, or email me. Victor. [If I’m not in, leave a message with Igor]
Phone number is xxx xxx xxxx
It’s FRONK-ohn-steen!
“Poot za’ candle BECK!!”
Don’t be silly. It’s always more interesting when the left brain doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.
Forget all that damn code nonsense — all you have to do is tune for minimum smoke.
Irregular Fractal, Irregular Person, Irregular Humor and Snark,
A day in the box, till you shot out the locks and wandered around in the park.
Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Nikola!