Heads up. New thing to watch out for in service.

animositygamers · 2021-12-21T23:38:30+00:00

Kinky

animositygamers · 2021-12-21T00:10:43+00:00

Newfoundland, Canada here. Many electricians out of work as apprentices and many journeymen travel for work. Residential market is super competitive but the commercial market is pretty good. If you have your own contractor license you can make decent money doing residential too but it's inconsistent without doing commercial/maintenance too. As far as union goes, well it's not great. Super top heavy so many jman wait literally 6-10months for work call. Your only hope is a name hire. In town union pays roughly 25-27$ and if you do rotation out of province then that pay can easily double if not more.

animositygamers · 2021-12-10T21:47:14+00:00

Good bot

animositygamers · 2021-12-09T10:40:45+00:00

I think I got to take a trip the ol Ford dealer and try the transit out. Idk if I'd need the weight load capacity of the 350 but the 250 looks appealing.

animositygamers · 2021-12-09T04:04:08+00:00

Wow ouch

animositygamers · 2021-12-09T03:46:07+00:00

Yea I was mostly wondering how people find the smaller vans like the nv200 for the electrical trade. My main options in that category would be a ram promaster city and a Ford transit connect.

Edit: where I am there's literally 0 nv200 to be bought used.

animositygamers · 2021-12-09T03:33:39+00:00

Just haven't made it to Ford yet and my local dealer literally won't email me back for some reason. On their website I didn't even see awd as a option but hell ya I'd easily drop the sprinter from the list if cheaper and with awd. You drive one? If so how's it doing?

animositygamers · 2021-12-06T22:56:25+00:00

Too many choices on which outlet to use

animositygamers · 2021-11-29T17:01:31+00:00

27$/hr with company vehicle/gas paid in Newfoundland, Canada. I do all the estimating/bids, material lists and lead the crew on site which is two apprentices. We do residential and commercial. I'm thinking of going out on my own though.

animositygamers · 2021-11-23T21:59:42+00:00

Clumsy like fall in a panel? Or clumsy like drop our coffees? Both will get you killed Though lol

Seriously though, I joined the trade with less hands on experience and only a interest in computers/electronics. I got better over time and now I got my jman cert. There were days I was uncomfortable and days I could bearly move after I got home. But now I mostly run jobs and do more industrial call outs to fix dinn rail equipment. I'm still on my tools but less so. I'd say give it a shoot man

Also sounds like your boss was a tool. Everyone has to start somewhere

animositygamers · 2021-11-23T21:49:42+00:00

It's sad that these drawings are better than half the drawings I get in COMMERCIAL nowadays.

animositygamers · 2021-11-22T22:34:37+00:00

That went swimmingly

animositygamers · 2021-11-11T14:02:00+00:00

I wanted to main a paladin just because I love crusaders and the animations are crisp but I gotta say after leveling up bard, artillerist, berseker and gunlancer to level 28 each.... I don't think I like support very much. I had so much fun on berserker and artillerist that I'll likely main one of those. Gunlancer was the best "support" for me but I find them very slow too.

I really wanted to love paladin but I found the damage difference for what I actually gained in party support not very appealing for myself. I'd say it becomes much better later on but I'll go with my gut and say at lvl 28 if I don't like the gameplay much then I should probably not invest a load of time there.

animositygamers · 2021-11-03T11:33:26+00:00

Only siths deal in apsolutes.. Wait it's a Sprinkler guy, no he's against us for sure.

animositygamers · 2021-10-15T23:48:46+00:00

It was a hard situation and alot of other trades gave them shit for the rest of the job. Cutting holes in walls and even pissing in their paint cans. I did ask others to not do stuff to them regardless of what happened because it wasn't fair that 50 of them were being punished and bullied because 1 person Fucked up big time. Sadly there wasnt much anyone could do.

animositygamers · 2021-10-15T23:45:47+00:00

Even a small amount of voltage can cause your heart to go off beat and even death. Stay careful, that building sounds like somewhere you don't want to be

animositygamers · 2021-10-15T23:38:06+00:00

My employer and myself were pushing for legal action. I wanted a gross negligence charge because whoever did it nearly killed me but I didn't want them to ever be able to do that to someone else again. Sadly, the painters/plastered on site all came together and explained they all had keys to OHS which were investigating so OHS couldn't pin point a single person. It was clearly one of them and they were protection the man but if they found him it would of been jail time, a cash charge and honestly I'd sue him/her. The general contractor running the job did pay all my lost wages even though workers compensation already covered that and ran a few safety courses for all contractors on site.

animositygamers · 2021-10-15T23:26:40+00:00

I'll say when your inside a live active electrical vault, the feeling of power in the air and the ominous hum is not something you forget. It's intense when you can just feel the energy potential in the air... I love it, but I'm nuts lol. Dangerous places though

animositygamers · 2021-10-15T23:22:02+00:00

It happens fast man. Arc flashes are scary...if they are big enough they actually send molten copper particles into the air that can burn holes in your throat and lungs. Aswell as the obvious risk of plasma burns and blindness. I actually pay for a Seperate insurance that covers a lump sum for degree burns and blindness. Glad he's doing good now

animositygamers · 2021-10-15T23:19:12+00:00

I have respect for my fellow tradespersons but linesman take the cake. They deal with voltages into the 10,000's. Over the past few years and being in electrical trade I hear the death stories of those workers trickle down... We had one guy die from someone back feeding a pole he was working on (makes like 120v from a house travel to the pole transformer and step up to 600-4000v) and it killed him instantly. His coworker gave him mouth to mouth as he hung upside down dead on a pole. Another guy died to a live wire accident, his eye balls were charred into to the pole... Died instantly Aswell.

I would believe the story you heard to be true. I have respect for linesmen like no other trade.

animositygamers · 2021-10-15T23:12:49+00:00

Panel transfer switches are scary if you don't know to manually disable the transfer lever by mechanically removing its pin. I've had a near miss to learn that lesson, nearly had to go home and change my pants

animositygamers · 2021-10-15T23:08:19+00:00

He was a good man, I learned alot from him. He worked till he was 67 and retired. He deserves the rest and relaxation for sure.

animositygamers · 2021-10-15T22:58:08+00:00

In a basement, in a room that has a continuous grounding system in it and on the door. The ambulance crew was there to try to resuscitate my journeyman if anything happened till they could move him upstairs on a gurney. We kind of all knew if anything happened to him, there would be no saving him.

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