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Confessions of an Electrician...

Lisa Miles

So while we’ve not been able to log into the community (you can do so now if you didn’t already know) I’ve been keeping myself out of mischief Blush by going through some of the discussion topics on the old Wiring Regs forum and came across this one: Walking off site where some of you were sharing stories about your experiences with client's pets while on the job. 


So I thought it would be a bit of fun to ask you to share some of your funny/bizarre or just weird stories (keeping it relatively clean and protecting the privacy of others please!) from any jobs you’ve been on or done.


… And I’ll send some swag to the author of the story that gets voted the ‘Most helpful/liked’ from the community so don't forget to hit that 'Good Answer' link on any that make you chuckle! (Log in required)



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  • Personally I have no 'racy underwear' type stories to admit, having worked mostly in the world of Universities and then the nearer industrial world of the R and D facility, where such things are rarer,  so my anecdotes tend to be technical - and in that sense to me Denis's technical post of fitting something that may become a "gotcha" moment for the next man in seemed in the right place.


    Here is another one, as seen from the other side.

    Beware of any unlabelled breaker facing the wrong way in the panel, so it is normally off. Especially if the other end goes outside,

    and underground

    And comes up to another  similar 3ph. breaker, also looking like an outbound circuit,

    in another board

    in another hanger, 

    marked something like 'em pwr feed bldg 172'.

    Of course when you put both on,  supplies are then in parallel, which is simply bad,  but when the phase sequence has been rotated between  the two buildings to improve the phase balance the next event is impressive and the badness score rises from 'simply' to 'really'.  "Goodness me some one was  a jolly careless fellow who put that in" or words to that effect come to mind. No record of who or how any such cable may have got there of course...
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  • Personally I have no 'racy underwear' type stories to admit, having worked mostly in the world of Universities and then the nearer industrial world of the R and D facility, where such things are rarer,  so my anecdotes tend to be technical - and in that sense to me Denis's technical post of fitting something that may become a "gotcha" moment for the next man in seemed in the right place.


    Here is another one, as seen from the other side.

    Beware of any unlabelled breaker facing the wrong way in the panel, so it is normally off. Especially if the other end goes outside,

    and underground

    And comes up to another  similar 3ph. breaker, also looking like an outbound circuit,

    in another board

    in another hanger, 

    marked something like 'em pwr feed bldg 172'.

    Of course when you put both on,  supplies are then in parallel, which is simply bad,  but when the phase sequence has been rotated between  the two buildings to improve the phase balance the next event is impressive and the badness score rises from 'simply' to 'really'.  "Goodness me some one was  a jolly careless fellow who put that in" or words to that effect come to mind. No record of who or how any such cable may have got there of course...
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