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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)



  • Former Community Member
    Former Community Member
    I keep a set of 100% cotton underwear, socks, shirt and strides in the car along with a clean pair of safety boots (anti static) and a spare hi viz jacket - generally because I occasionally need to go into facilities where static risk is a major drama (explosive processing and static are never a good mix). That does me for any of the drama scenarios like a good soaking on the hard shoulder or needing to stay overnight somewhere at short notice.

    I've got quite used to sipping a Tom Collins in some random hotel bar, of an evening,  with ESD labels on everything I'm wearing - not always a good look.


    Regards


    OMS





  • OMS:

    ... - not always a good look.




    ...though it is better than the alternative!

  • Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

    Lisa Miles:




    Colleagues and friends may laugh at my 'always prepared' nature but I have a change of clothes in the boot of my car, just in case.. It may only be a T-shirt and pair of leggings but it gets me out of trouble when I need it. ?




     



    I'm having trouble imagining what trouble a girl could get into, that requires a change of clothing, at IET Towers, Lisa ?


    OMS
     

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    Alasdair Anderson:


     


    OMS:

    ... - not always a good look.




    ...though it is better than the alternative!


     



    Sure, a blue painted, naked Welshman with a Daffodil Warrior tattoo sipping a Tom Collins is just beyond the pale ? 


    OMS
     

  • Indeed, surely a decent beer (*) would be a far better choice.






    * lager is not a beer in this context.????Zap

  • Alasdair Anderson:

    Not me but my brother (honestly)...

    Working as part of a hospital radio station team,




    Mention of hospital radio and it all came flooding back . . . . .

    In the sixth form at school I spent a lot of my spare time volunteering as a technician at hospital radio.  I was studio manager one evening shift, busy with a record request programme, then put a tape on for the scheduled pre-recorded church service.  You can have a cup of coffee then with just checking through the headphones from time to time that the tape is still running.  I got my coffee and checked - silence!  I knew we had a dodgy tape deck but didn't think it was that one.  Anyway, I had a disc of easy listening music ready on the turntable so I started that and went to get an announcer into the studio to give an apology.  Then it struck me - the tape that was playing was of the Remembrance Day service.

    I'm sure nobody noticed the burst of Gilbert and Sullivan during the two minute's silence.


  • OMS:


    I'm having trouble imagining what trouble a girl could get into, that requires a change of clothing, at IET Towers, Lisa ?

    Ahhh the trap you've fallen into OMS is to believe that I don't have a life outside of IET Towers... ?
  • Former Community Member
    Former Community Member

    Lisa Miles:




    OMS:


    I'm having trouble imagining what trouble a girl could get into, that requires a change of clothing, at IET Towers, Lisa ?

    Ahhh the trap you've fallen into OMS is to believe that I don't have a life outside of IET Towers... ?

     



    LoL -  for one so young (looking) - that's hardly credible, Lisa ? 


    OMS
     

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    mapj1:

    Indeed, surely a decent beer (*) would be a far better choice.

    * lager is not a beer in this context.????Zap




     

    Ahhh, but finding the decent beer is the problem - some of the craft ale microbrewery stuff that infests more than a few hotel bars is truly shocking - difficult to b***** up a gin and soda with a dash of citrus (as part of the 5 a day) and a slug of sugar syrup.


    That's not to say there are no decent beers  - just plenty of very indecent ones


    Regards


    OMS
  • Speaking of beer.

    I once watched a super magician conjurer type bloke who could do amazing tricks.

    He came unstuck when one of the audience challanged him to turn Hirondell into wine though.

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