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I can't believe this was how they fixed that (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/whitepeopletwitter

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

Am electrician, can confirm.

To be fair, I don't get called out to fix good work. If something's fucked, it's usually because some "handyman" who "totally knows what he's doing" was there before.

Between that, and the fact that most of the people involved in wiring up houses are just laborers under an electrician's supervision (ostensibly), yeah, I get plenty to complain about.

It also makes it easier, I feel, for customers to stomach the bill if I can adequately explain how much better off they are now that I've done my job.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Can I ask a question: do repair electricians often cross paths with install electricians? I don’t know much about the business of the trade, but my feeling was that the folks doing installs in new houses / buildings rarely crossed paths with the ones going around repairing everything. In my mind these are like two separate worlds.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Kinda depends? But yeah they're mostly separate.

When I worked for a shop (self-employed now), they had us divided into Construction and Service, and the two pretty much kept to themselves. Service guys looked down on Construction guys because they didn't know much about troubleshooting; Construction guys looked down on Service guys because most of them couldn't build their way out of a wet paper bag.

Most of my experience as an apprentice was construction. I did some service calls now and then when jobsites slowed down in the winter. Now I mostly do service calls, and, frankly, it's a HELL of a lot easier.