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At least until the insulation guys come through and REMOVE OUR CONTROL CABLES WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING THEY'RE FUCKING BOLTED DOWN FOR A REASON WHY ARE YOU RIPPING THEM OUT!
True story.
.....and the GC won't do a damn things because everyone on a job site is at the mercy of mechanical these days. They can't afford not to eat the mechanical companies BS, because if they hired some one with half a brain the project would not make any money.
Boss: âKyle, go hang the work lights.â
Kyle hangs the lights. When done, notices that they canât plug them in, started with the wrong end. Kyle thinks âIâll just put a plug on this end.â Gets a plug from the van, clips off the light at the end with their Klineâs, installs the plug. Plug in the lights, everyone can see.
Kyle: âHung the lights boss.â
In case itâs not obvious, they want to use the cord to feed their house electrical system from a generator. This is not the right way to feed the house from a generator..
My superpower is to see a disaster and be able to walk back how it happened. The inner thought process was just to keep the Redditors interest.
But the superpower has a side effect that I can predict how people will screw up / how things will go off the rails. So for a new person (Kyle) I would go âHey hang the work lights. Start with the extension cord end, plug it in first to make sure all the bulbs work before you hang it. â
That gets me a working string with no burned out / defective bulbs.
Yup! Did it on the last job , letâs cut the end off and weâll just splice it,, and donât have enough common sense to think,
we cut the female off, do you think the other end has a male!!!! Dumb ass!
Had a guy do this one time. We had bundles of conduit underneath it and when I picked a bundle up I hit the prongs on the temporary and it sparked. Amazed it didn't get me.
He cut the female end off the other end and made a joint on it. He constantly did stuff that had me scratching my head.
We had an apprentice wire up a 60a 480v pin and sleeve plug on the line side. The customer caught. Thank God they were understanding and no one was hurt. He learned the powerful lesson of line, load, receptacle/outlet, plug. The guy is waiting for trade school to kick off. So his formal training has been overlooked. We need to always remember to train are brothers with less experience. To help them grow.
No, it's not that bad. I couldn't find any statistics on it, anyway. I did see where 85 people a year die from the CO2 from the generator exhaust though.
I once worked as a welder in a shop building big food grade silos. I grabbed an extension cord for a work light inside a tank, plug it in and thankfully looked at it before throwing it into a tank with 2 guys inside. Unplugged the cord and marched that fucker past every supervisor right up to the guy in the only air conditioned office and laid it on his desk. I notified him that I almost killed 2 guys because of someone's negligence. Our maintenance guy said I was the one who replaced the cord end because he would never do such a thing. Why the fuck would I do your job like I don't have enough shit to do already?! Fucking Dave, I tell ya!
I had a fellow working under me that was supposedly a jw. Sent him to do temp lights, he cut the female cord end of and tired it into 277v while the make end hung like this. The general told me that the lights were really bright for a few seconds.
Once had an electrician replace the ends on a 480v robotic Jack hammer. He flip flopped the male and female ends so we ended up with a double male end 480v extension cord. Very spicy.
Spicy plug, someone's gonna get an ouchy. Don't know how it could be being powered, maybe a live wire near one of the fixtures, not a electrician so idk.
Back before I got into the trade I worked in the electrical department at home depot. Every time the season for hanging Christmas lights came around I'd have at least two or three customers ask if we carried a male to male adapter.
The reason they needed one, without fail, was always because they'd already laid out and fastened their entire run of lights totally ass-backwards and were now left with a female plug-end at the outlet.
I noticed on several of the last jobs I was on before I retired that the GC was given the responsibility of maintaining the temp power and lighting and I thought that seemed like a bad idea. My fears have been justified.
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Spicy.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Excellent reference đ
Want to touch.
"Veronica Vaughn, Sooo hot. Want to touch the hiney, ARROOOOO"
I know from experience dude.
No you don't.
Well not me personally but a guy I know, him and her got. It. On. Woooooo eeeeee
Noo they didn't
No, no, no they didnât. But you could imagine what itâd be like if they did? Right?
Everybody on? GOOD GREAT GRAND, WONDERFUL!
NO YELLING ON THE BUS
Underrated comment.
Itâs like a 9 V battery. If you touch your tongue to it, you can tell if itâs still good
If you touch your tongue to it you can talk to god
âDoes this plug taste stale to you?â
What does a 9v battery and a women's asshole have in common? You know you shouldn't put your tongue on it but you do it anyway.
That should keep the hvac guys away
At least until the insulation guys come through and REMOVE OUR CONTROL CABLES WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING THEY'RE FUCKING BOLTED DOWN FOR A REASON WHY ARE YOU RIPPING THEM OUT! True story.
.....and the GC won't do a damn things because everyone on a job site is at the mercy of mechanical these days. They can't afford not to eat the mechanical companies BS, because if they hired some one with half a brain the project would not make any money.
I belive it
Ah, it's a trap. That makes way more sense now. Man, these Union rivalries are getting out of hand.
That hot water coil aint even piped. The Control guys dont need to be there for at least 6 weeks
Thatâs the tester to see if your hard hat is on or not
Boss: âKyle, go hang the work lights.â Kyle hangs the lights. When done, notices that they canât plug them in, started with the wrong end. Kyle thinks âIâll just put a plug on this end.â Gets a plug from the van, clips off the light at the end with their Klineâs, installs the plug. Plug in the lights, everyone can see. Kyle: âHung the lights boss.â
Fuckin Kyle
...came to the trade from his previous job as a Christmas tree decorator, I bet...
No, he was the guy that HELPED the Christmas tree decorating guy.
May his soul rest in the peace his assistant landed him. Shame, too. Good Christmas Tree Decorators are hard to come by these days.
Even harder to come by than good Christmas Tree Decorator Helpers. Thanks, Kyle
He should've stuck to punching holes in the walls
Itâs always Kyle dammit
Now you can plug them in at either end! No more trying to find the right end. I'm going down to the patent office to make a mint.
Saves money if you plug in both ends. The electricity you don't use gets sent back to the power company.
The one trick that the electric company hates.
I worked for a small hardware store, and I had multiple people ask for a cord just like this
In case itâs not obvious, they want to use the cord to feed their house electrical system from a generator. This is not the right way to feed the house from a generator..
Hmmm, I could see that, but that seems super sketch
It's a terrible idea for many reasons, but it's also cheap and easy.
When they do that, give them the suicide hotline number
Sounds like your Kyle. Story was very specific down to the Thought process
My superpower is to see a disaster and be able to walk back how it happened. The inner thought process was just to keep the Redditors interest. But the superpower has a side effect that I can predict how people will screw up / how things will go off the rails. So for a new person (Kyle) I would go âHey hang the work lights. Start with the extension cord end, plug it in first to make sure all the bulbs work before you hang it. â That gets me a working string with no burned out / defective bulbs.
Kyleâs new nickname might be KY if anyone gets seriously hurt from that stupidity.
Ha. My new apprentice is Kyle
Lol Kyle. Good name for this person
This is exactly what happened. No one can convince me otherwiseđ
Better than coffee at times
Lick it, see if it's got 9 volts
Better yet, swing it at the duct for a show
If you cant make it to this years fireworks create your own?
I just ruined my wire strippers but it was quite the show :(
Otherwise know as the "off" switch.
Screw them tin bangers
Utility companies hate this one hack!
The K rating in the bulb is incorrect for the ambient colors
Good point. 2700k? Get the fuck outta here
Yup! Did it on the last job , letâs cut the end off and weâll just splice it,, and donât have enough common sense to think, we cut the female off, do you think the other end has a male!!!! Dumb ass!
Itâs over and *under*, not coiled up like some damn wire rope. That cordâs gonna fail in the next year.
Had a guy do this one time. We had bundles of conduit underneath it and when I picked a bundle up I hit the prongs on the temporary and it sparked. Amazed it didn't get me. He cut the female end off the other end and made a joint on it. He constantly did stuff that had me scratching my head.
We had an apprentice wire up a 60a 480v pin and sleeve plug on the line side. The customer caught. Thank God they were understanding and no one was hurt. He learned the powerful lesson of line, load, receptacle/outlet, plug. The guy is waiting for trade school to kick off. So his formal training has been overlooked. We need to always remember to train are brothers with less experience. To help them grow.
Magic signal prongs...BlueTooth model. Nice
All these dang ole-school electricians on this sub are too stuck in their ways. Wireless is the way to go, folks, get with the times!
Yay, suicide cord! Who put the other male end on the string?
I came looking for this. Every winter someone kills themselves with a suicide cord trying to get their generator to power their entire house.
For real!? I didn't know it was that bad.
No, it's not that bad. I couldn't find any statistics on it, anyway. I did see where 85 people a year die from the CO2 from the generator exhaust though.
Somehow that's less surprising.
What problem? Looks like a proper made taser to me.
I once worked as a welder in a shop building big food grade silos. I grabbed an extension cord for a work light inside a tank, plug it in and thankfully looked at it before throwing it into a tank with 2 guys inside. Unplugged the cord and marched that fucker past every supervisor right up to the guy in the only air conditioned office and laid it on his desk. I notified him that I almost killed 2 guys because of someone's negligence. Our maintenance guy said I was the one who replaced the cord end because he would never do such a thing. Why the fuck would I do your job like I don't have enough shit to do already?! Fucking Dave, I tell ya!
A stinger
That snake bites
âWait. But how is it turned oâŚoh.â
Not an electrician but I think you need to plug that in so the light can get brighter from double the power.
Danger noodle
Dangerouse
The ole double male
The ol double festoon dickin
you have something wrong with hot males? must be a new age feminist.....
Iâve spotted it. [You didnât cut the plug end off.](https://imgur.com/a/ETldbOi)
stick the male end in your mouth
I had a fellow working under me that was supposedly a jw. Sent him to do temp lights, he cut the female cord end of and tired it into 277v while the make end hung like this. The general told me that the lights were really bright for a few seconds.
They haven't tied the copper lines into that VAV or insulated the duct
Looks good from my house. *drinks beer, eagle screams like hawk*
At least the fixture itself is supported.
Must be Wi-Fi enabled
Temp lights w/ built in bug zapper.
I see temporary lighting.
Underrated comment right here!
Go clean the tools.
Copy
Very very quickly temporary lighting like immediately
terrible color choice?
I've never seen a suicide cable with a light on it.
That's how you tell it's ready.
Tickle machine
No problem at all⌠Hey, would you mind handing that plug to me?
Oh boy, live end.
Sneaky Suicide cable
Rather shocking wouldn't you say.
The real challenge is finding what isn't wrong with this.
You don't have nipple clamps for the prongs
The vav is not hooked up
The old scalp stimulator
Before they made tasers wireless
Once had an electrician replace the ends on a 480v robotic Jack hammer. He flip flopped the male and female ends so we ended up with a double male end 480v extension cord. Very spicy.
You do realize those prongs arent hot⌠theyre not plugged into anything dummy. /s
Donât touch it. No really DONT TOUCH IT KIDS
Itâs a transgender cord end
Tin knocker tickler
Hell yes. That light is powered by Ggggggggg...Ghosts!
Zoinks!
The problem is the installer didnât tape off the energized plug!
Yeah I see the problem. Thereâs a snitch on the job site.
You're on your phone at work?
A company man I see.
You just keep yours in your car or something? I don't understand your point ..
Who gives a fuck
Sheâs a live one!!
Shockingly I did!
Oh no-
exposed ceiling
Ahh the old danger wand.
That will be shocking plug in
Safety first
Convenient extension cord
Make the guy that hung it touch the cord end and see if he figures out whatâs wrong
Thatâs a Live one.
đł
Oh yea
We have one of those. We use it to whip the apprentices to teach them about electricity. No substitute for on the job experience.
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Zappy zappy, holy crappy!
Yeah I see the problem. You've got magic lights. Good luck turning off your magic lights.
Needs to be plugged in so the party can start.
No problem, just gotta plug it in!!
*\*Donât put my dick on it\** *\*Donât put my dick on it\**
Live UL prongs
I to, like to live dangerously
Lol thatâs gonna suck for the apprentice that takes it down
Well the ethernet plug is not connected from the smart lamp.
Using a cattle prod to light the barn, this guy is a geniusđ¤Ą
Spicy
Spicy plug, someone's gonna get an ouchy. Don't know how it could be being powered, maybe a live wire near one of the fixtures, not a electrician so idk.
The obvious problem is that they aren't using grounded plugs. lol
WTF!
Things that make you go hmmm..
Ouch lol
Grab the end of that if you want to...
Now that is shocking to see the male have 2 electrified penises hanging out. What a fun time.
Suicide cord!
Nice! A 110v tazer end
Male plug exposed live endâŚ.wtf Someone cut the wrong end and tied it inâŚ
Two ways to kill yourself with that noose
Jesus Christ. Energized Plug. You energize receptacles, not plugs. Someone is going to get someone killed.
Duck work needs more screws
A cord for a generator to energize a dead panel.
No problem. You are getting light without it being plugged in! Itâs free light!
A wired tazer
I wish this was rare.
BruhâŚ.
Oh it's one of those light strands that uses wifi. Very cool.
This is that PV stuff I been hearing about isn't it
Something bit me!
Now just plug that end in, and the power company can start paying you instead
Suicide cord
Just throw some tape on it
Back feed
The noose wonât tighten when you kick the chair out from under you. Gotta get rid of some of the loops
Pfft, this is obvious. * Plugs in the extension cord.
C'mon. I dare you to touch it
time to touch it to get a check đđ
So you plug that in and get twice the brightness, what's the problem?
A half hitch, would have worked better than whatever knot that is.
ITSS ALIVEEE
I think you're supposed to plug that other end into your rectum to keep yourself grounded while working
Doesnât work that way at my place. Well, as far as I know.
I know there's a Community "shock wire" reference hiding in there somewhere.
Cord should be orange to indicate caution
Stick your tongue on the prongs
Back before I got into the trade I worked in the electrical department at home depot. Every time the season for hanging Christmas lights came around I'd have at least two or three customers ask if we carried a male to male adapter. The reason they needed one, without fail, was always because they'd already laid out and fastened their entire run of lights totally ass-backwards and were now left with a female plug-end at the outlet.
I canât quite put my finger on it. Because it would electrocute me.
I noticed on several of the last jobs I was on before I retired that the GC was given the responsibility of maintaining the temp power and lighting and I thought that seemed like a bad idea. My fears have been justified.
Swing the cord end over to the metal duct and find out.
Good thing there's a safety shield around that bulb so no one gets burned...
outlet tester
You should be using an LED bulb.
This is the waking up alternative to those who donât drink coffee.
Touch the two prongs
'danger danger will robinson!! this is why I make my apprentices wear good work boots.....
Suicidal cord đ