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  • #1

    Not on my watch...

    ... if you want to electrocute yourselves go do it at home.

    Had these two gems Friday night.

    I get back from my break and there are two guys in my department being helped by a guy from half-way across the store. They are wanting to get a ceiling fan, all that is left is the display and the model was discontinued so I pull it down to sell them.

    Fail on my part

    Our ceiling fans are not powered as there is not enough room for them to turn and it just ends up burning out the motor.

    So the guys ask if we can test it to make sure it works, OK we mount them on plates that have plugs so we can just plug them ( we used to ). So we walk over to an outlet to plug it in and GREEN sparks start flying out of the mounting plate, not only was the fan not wired into the plate but the wires in the plate were VERY frayed so we had a very bad situation going on.

    I unplugged the fan and we checked the it to make sure there was no damage. So I remove the fan from the mounting plate and hand it over to the customer.

    Fail on my customers part

    The guy then proceeds to unwrap the wires in the fan in order to shove the bare wires into an extension cord to test the fan. I am not about to let a customer potentially fry themselves while I am at work so after telling them 'You can't do that' twice he payed attention when I waved the unplugged end of the extension cord in my hand as I said it.

    Sorry for the kinda rambling but this still has me just in shock.
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    Uh, keep me away from them please. I'd be forced to them.

    (I was an electrician for 6 years before dumping that and going into the hotel business)
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    • #3
      Your opening line cracked me up.
      It's what I used to tell kids when I was keeping watch on the playground. "If you want to do xyz to yourself, do it at home, if your parents are okay with that!" (They knew I was joking and that I didn't really wanted them to hurt themselves - it was a way of sending the message in a humorous way, and it usually worked).

      That being said, I've not always been the smartest with electricity, myself. But, I have learned.

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      • #4
        Quoth IvorTangrean View Post
        Sorry for the kinda rambling but this still has me just in shock.
        Almost had your customers in shock too!

        "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is         Still A Customer."

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        • #5
          One time, when removing a ceiling fan, Mr. Electricity reminded me that light switches are not a substitute for flipping the breaker.

          This was when I learned that properly-done fans have a perm. live circuit for the fan, and only the light kit is supposed to be wall-switched. When pulling the fan down, the mounting bracket cut through the fan wires and I had pretty sparks cascading down from the ceiling. (As a side note, such a sharp bracket sounds like a design defect w/ the fan...)

          I'm actually glad it happened then, instead of while I was futzing around with the bare wires myself.

          SirWired

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