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He's that for sure!MTW said:I also wrongly assumed you're an electrician Sent from my iPhone using electriciantalk.com
He's that for sure!MTW said:I also wrongly assumed you're an electrician Sent from my iPhone using electriciantalk.com
I wrongly assumed you'd ever post anything positive or worth any value on this forum.
I wrongly assumed you'd ever post anything positive or worth any value on this forum.
Here the inspector is lazy and won't do his job in a timely manner.Here the inspector phones the utility immediately after the inspection and before he leaves the premises. Takes less than a minute.
Here the inspector is lazy and won't do his job in a timely manner.
Same here. The utility wont come out until the inspector calls. The rural area, the inspector (residential) and the lineman are the same guy, so no problem there, or we reconnect ourselves.Here the inspector phones the utility immediately after the inspection and before he leaves the premises. Takes less than a minute.
stuff like this really frosts my balls. And it should do the same for any county executive (worth their salt). We all get busy at our jobs, and a lot of crap is laid onto city/county employees, but in my travels over the last 40 yrs, I have noticed 2 distinct type of govt employees - those that are truly interested in serving the public, and those that act like the ahole in the OP. We give our govt a lot of crap, , but I sincerely believe that the crap we give them is entirely due to the employees of the 2nd type, and it is a shame that it reflects badly on the rest ( because I have personally met a lot of truly great and truly effective and helpful govt employees over the years). There is no place in the govt for these type of people. I hope you let the customer know what transpired, and convince them to write a letter to their county executive outlining the treatment that they received, and you received, at the hands of this individual. Enough letters of that nature should probably get something done.We scheduled a shutdown with the local electrical utility so we could do a repair to a service on a single family home. With this repair, we needed a permit and an inspection from the city which we obtained and scheduled the inspection. Once the work is inspected, the electrical inspector has to call the electrical utility to schedule a reconnect with the utility. (That particular city's requirement.) I asked him after he inspected the work when he planned on calling the utility? His comment in front of the customer was: "I'm very busy today so hopefully I'll have time to call before 4 pm. After the idiotic electrical inspector left, I called the utility myself and told them the house didn't have power and it needed to be reconnected. They scheduled a reconnect and the lineman was there in about 30 minutes. The electrical inspector called me at 4:15 pm this afternoon quite angry asking me why I called the utility? I told him I thought I had to schedule the reconnect.:laughing: he gave me a stern verbal warning never to do it again. Why can't people just do their job in a timely manner? Power trip with the electrical inspector?:001_huh:
whaaa? c'mon Wild One, it's a freakin' mecca for 'em....There is no place in the govt for these type of people. .
A colossal Mecca of stupidity.whaaa? c'mon Wild One, it's a freakin' mecca for 'em....
~CS~
What city?Chris1971 said:We scheduled a shutdown with the local electrical utility so we could do a repair to a service on a single family home. With this repair, we needed a permit and an inspection from the city which we obtained and scheduled the inspection. Once the work is inspected, the electrical inspector has to call the electrical utility to schedule a reconnect with the utility. (That particular city's requirement.) I asked him after he inspected the work when he planned on calling the utility? His comment in front of the customer was: "I'm very busy today so hopefully I'll have time to call before 4 pm. After the idiotic electrical inspector left, I called the utility myself and told them the house didn't have power and it needed to be reconnected. They scheduled a reconnect and the lineman was there in about 30 minutes. The electrical inspector called me at 4:15 pm this afternoon quite angry asking me why I called the utility? I told him I thought I had to schedule the reconnect.:laughing: he gave me a stern verbal warning never to do it again. Why can't people just do their job in a timely manner? Power trip with the electrical inspector?:001_huh:
I fail to see any wrongdoing!That's my feeling about this particular city. I say screw it. I'll call for a reconnect until they throw me in jail. It was inspected. Inspection card was signed. What's the issue?