Absolute Frustration! An OC experience...

[Caleb]

Try again. Electrical Engineer. I play with high voltage on a regular basis.

Sounds like fun!

 

[1911 DeadHead]

Oh it's great fun when you get a jolt of 277 through your arm. I've been hit by it once while making a splice, had a pain in my elbow all day.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Sounds like fun!

It can be shocking, especially if you're a well grounded individual

Caity, have figured out why transformers hum?

 

[patience0830]

Wow, your co-workers are a bunch of *******s

yup. Inconsiderate unfeeling, insecure ones.

 

[patience0830]

It can be shocking, especially if you're a well grounded individual

Caity, have figured out why transformers hum?

Cuz they don't know the words?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Cuz they don't know the words?

We can be on a job and I'll ask new guys that as we pass one of the subs--gets 'em every time. Yeah, corny as all get out, I know.

 

[catielynnb]

Oh it's great fun when you get a jolt of 277 through your arm. I've been hit by it once while making a splice, had a pain in my elbow all day.

It's okay. They had me making connections in a live 480VAC box in a puddle. Everyone thought it had been powered down because VFD LCD display was off as well as the HMI... yup, no. Almost died. Since then it has been an 'initiation' joke.

 

[KG1]

We can be on a job and I'll ask new guys that as we pass one of the subs--gets 'em every time. Yeah, corny as all get out, I know.

Yeah that's a good one. I like to use another one although not related to anything electrical. I'll ask someone if they ever see a flock of geese flying overhead in "V" formation and notice one side of the "V" is longer than the other side and ask them if they know why that is?

Naturally most ponder the question and try to over think it and they end up feeling really foolish and I get the proverbial groan when I tell them it's because there are more geese on that side.

 

[1911 DeadHead]

I dont really find it a joke. Guys will always say panels and boxes aren't energized. I always grab my meter and check for myself. I've heard too many bad stories and seen too many bad pictures to take their word.

 

[Hayseed_40]

FWIW, I'm also an engineer, and I OC...

You're allowed to OC on trains?

 

[mrortega]

I "heard" an electrician get into a panel in a commercial water heater at a school one time. He thought he'd killed the breaker but had just flipped off the 120v control circuit. Good thing his screw driver hit the side of the unit at the same time he touched the first lug. The dead short sounded louder than a 12 gauge going off. We all sh** out pants. He sat down and took a looooong break and thought about almost going to the great panel in the sky.

Too bad you don't work with architects. They would have seen your carry and commented on how it blended in with you outfit, the shape and "form" of it and how it related to the environment and ..."Oh, look! A puppy in the flower garden."

 

[catielynnb]

I dont really find it a joke. Guys will always say panels and boxes aren't energized. I always grab my meter and check for myself. I've heard too many bad stories and seen too many bad pictures to take their word.

I should have. That's the last time I trusted anyone to prove a panel was off. Seriously. I've been zapped by a wall outlet, but that was stupidity on my part.

I "heard" an electrician get into a panel in a commercial water heater at a school one time. He thought he'd killed the breaker but had just flipped off the 120v control circuit. Good thing his screw driver hit the side of the unit at the same time he touched the first lug. The dead short sounded louder than a 12 gauge going off. We all sh** out pants. He sat down and took a looooong break and thought about almost going to the great panel in the sky.

Too bad you don't work with architects. They would have seen your carry and commented on how it blended in with you outfit, the shape and "form" of it and how it related to the environment and ..."Oh, look! A puppy in the flower garden."

Yup. Never again. Its a scary thing, seriously. I don't want to see one exploded, especially not when it would be my life on the line.

Also, I have architect friends, and you're exactly right.

 

[T-Mann]

Catie.....you never answered my question. My post must have gotten looked over in all the hubbub over you posting your photo! :P

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I dont really find it a joke. Guys will always say panels and boxes aren't energized. I always grab my meter and check for myself. I've heard too many bad stories and seen too many bad pictures to take their word.

Good for you! Electrical safety is much like firearms safety. The rules are simple and forget to follow them one time can get someone killed...like you never take somebody's word a gun is unloaded, always check for voltage yourself.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Yeah that's a good one. I like to use another one although not related to anything electrical. I'll ask someone if they ever see a flock of geese flying overhead in "V" formation and notice one side of the "V" is longer than the other side and ask them if they know why that is?

Naturally most ponder the question and try to over think it and they end up feeling really foolish and I get the proverbial groan when I tell them it's because there are more geese on that side.

There's another one that's a little off color for mixed company, so I won't type in the punch line: "you know what blows fuses?....". It's a groaner.

 

[catielynnb]

Maybe it is that they find your confidence emasculating. Don't let them bother you, if you want to OC, then OC. Personally, I CC.....however, I support everyone's right to carry....however, they see fit.

BTW, on a side note....maybe you've answered this before, but is you avatar your martial arts black belt? If so, that could be another reason your male coworkers feel insecure around you (yes, they are insecure..that is why they confronted you). I only ask because it reminds me of my oldest son's black belt.....his name on one end and something in Korean written on the other.

Yes, it did get almost overlooked. I read it and meant to answer, but obviously I didn't. YES, that is my blackbelt that I earned after five and a half hours on my feet and lots of earned bruises. It was my 'school's black and I earned my first degree a year later.

Most memorable bruises, from my wrist to my elbow of my left arm, the obvious foot print on my ribs, was a defined heel and ball of a foot, and last but not least the fingertips and thumb marks on the inside of my thigh right above my right knee. I would never want to repeat that day. Ever. I was a nervous wreck.

Notable moments, disarmed someone with a 'knife' and almost broke their wrist because they wouldn't give. And, broke one of the molded plastic guns in half, they split different directions too. It was intense.

I didn't just train in TaeKwonDo either, my basis was TKD but also included Jujitsu, Kempo, Judo, Krav Maga, Ninjitsu and a handful of others.
I apologize for any spelling errors because I'm in a parking lot, in Rossville, on my phone.

 

[Caleb]

I didn't just train in TaeKwonDo either, my basis was TKD but also included Jujitsu, Kempo, Judo, Krav Maga, Ninjitsu and a handful of others.
I apologize for any spelling errors because I'm in a parking lot, in Rossville, on my phone.

I always wanted to do krav maga and jujitsu...how difficult to learn each?

 

[looney2ns]

It's okay. They had me making connections in a live 480VAC box in a puddle. Everyone thought it had been powered down because VFD LCD display was off as well as the HMI... yup, no. Almost died. Since then it has been an 'initiation' joke.

Never assume and never take anyone's word for it...ever!
Hot wire testers are cheap.

Bunch of Jackwagons you work with.

 

[mrortega]

Never assume and never take anyone's word for it...ever!
Hot wire testers are cheap.

Bunch of Jackwagons you work with.

You've got that right. I installed a new light in a closet I finished in our basement. The licensed and long time in business electrician had just hung a china fixture with a bare bulb. I flipped the switch off then checked the wires on the fixture. He had screwed up and switched the neutral instead of the hot. So with the "hot" still active if I would have touched the box or the ground at the same time I would have got lit up.

 

[1911 DeadHead]

You've got that right. I installed a new light in a closet I finished in our basement. The licensed and long time in business electrician had just hung a china fixture with a bare bulb. I flipped the switch off then checked the wires on the fixture. He had screwed up and switched the neutral instead of the hot. So with the "hot" still active if I would have touched the box or the ground at the same time I would have got lit up.

Old time journeymen I have worked with "It only tingles...."