whelan2 wrote: » One of our Angus bulls had a pig tail post wrapped in his ring this morning
ATMs you say? So, after you get it out of the wall, what's the best way to open it? 😀
It was but there is some truth to the old saying about "jack of all trades"
God experience if it was so varied.
Sometimes, Spent most of my career as a Hardware Field Engineer for IBM. Usually my time was spent on more electro mechanical equipment like Industrial Printers, ATM's and Tape Libraries but was also given more general IT and Network training/certification like Cisco, so out of hours/emergency calls were likely to be anything with a plug, from equipment in Data Centres, Comms Rooms to Retail EPOS systems.
Telecoms work?. im in the same field myself
You've been lucky if you've never experienced it, I've worked with customers in several different industries and some are definitely worse than others. I've experience the red carpet treatment too don't get me wrong. My point wasn't that all customers are like that but there have been enough.
Once travelled in country wide snow storm from Navan to a business near Mallin Head because network equipment had failed to restart after a power cut, was meant to be met by a courier with spare equipment, only to be met with irate customer due to courier refusing to travel as snow had gotten too bad. Was suggested that I should travel back to get the part, it was a Friday evening after hours too, I did what I could to get their site partially back online and went to the nearest hotel, didn't receive too much thanks for my effort either. On the other hand I've had customers offer gifts of bottles of whiskey etc for my trouble, which I'd refuse, found one in the back of my van after getting home one evening having refused it earlier, so no not all bad either.
From my short time working with equipment on farms, farming folk are definitely by far the most welcoming especially if you have an interest yourself.
Jeez ermaherx
I am going round repairing stuff for different customers for years. Now I am the last port in a storm, I get the red the carpet everywhere. Got a call from a company Monday evening never worked for them before, went on took about 2 hours to figure out what was wrong. Got paid and all when leaving the lad operating the machine said it was down over a week. Didn't charge enough.
I had a read of the weather thread yesterday. You wouldn’t believe the same shoite on it, some saying it was only a bit of wind etc.
Unfortunately there are some people in all walks of live who cannot comprehend the complexity of certain situations. And usually these people are the ones that have the least understanding of the subject.
I've worked in some sort of field service job my whole career, thankfully never up a pole in storm though. Its amazing how many customers greet you like you are the enemy and want a estimation of repair time before you've even had time to asses the issue. The worst customers are often the ones who have done something to cause the issue too. Obviously not all customers are like this but the old "the customer is always right" line couldn't be further from the truth. Definitely anyone out there doing repairs while the storm is still blowing has my respect, and take your time lads I charged plenty of batteries when I seen the forecast, have a gas cooker and a wood stove.
Electricity has been on and off a day here or there for weeks due to line upgrades and new customer connections, scheduled off for a day next week too, worst thing is when its scheduled off on a weekday the school closes too.
Work alongside GNI a bit myself at the moment twould be a nice number and plenty of perks to the job too but it would absolutely ruin a young lad serving their time or just finished there time a retirement home for broke up fitters is what one beat up fitter told me it is.
I served my time with the ESB back in the 90s. When I was finishing up they were closing area offices and offering redundancy to staff. I was asked back after my apprenticeship on contract for 6 months and most likely could have been made permanent. Now 25 yrs later they have a fraction of the staff and are looking for workers.
Yes when I was in collage one of my friends dad was a lines man with the ESB, there was a bad storm around Christmas time and as well as here parts of France were without power. My mates dad went to France to help after they had all the issues in Ireland sorted. The following 2 years my mate wasn't eligible for the collage grant because of the extra over time his dad had earned the December & January. Every time that rest of us got our grant money he would be giving out (in a joking kind of way) about how his poor dad had to risk his life during the storms and that he was now getting punished for it.
My kids have learned to rough it for a few hours.
Maybe microgeneration is the way of the future. Along with hopefully much better/cheaper battery storage in vehicles and possibly within houses too.
Or we'll be on the big dirty fossil fuel generator with our own home brew fuels, while others Flintstone it 😁
That's the problem people feel they have to complain about little things. It just makes them look like a gobshite. While they think they are great
The power was off here Monday for planned replacement of insulators on poles and from their inspection pre day visit I got them to replace a pole that previously had mushrooms growing from it. It was an awful day here Monday and on going into one paddock their pickup got stuck a hundred yards in. So to that pole they lumped it by foot and climbed the pole instead of the basket. Digger came in then and pulled the pickup and trailer out ..backwards. Mess was made (a little) but everything was done to limit damage in the fields bar the date picked for maintenance..
Yesterday the power went out again just after dinner and the estimated time back was 20.45. It was hooked back up just before 18.00.
Would I complain about them? Not on your Nelly. You wouldn't get me up a pole.
There's solar and wind home generation options now for people who want to try it themselves.
I went through Ophelia and five days without power and estimated time of power back was always 19.45 or 20.45 that evening.
The esb crews have my full respect. Shows too that there's non Irish accents now in those crews. Lots of Irish are being spoiled in life and becoming infantile.
With climate change halted, there won't be any more storms.
What happens when we need it for transport?
You only realise how we need electricity for so many things when we don't have it. I hope those people complaining are off for a few days....
Difficult to believe, or I find it difficult at least, but I've read some comments online tonight complaining about ESB not having power restoration time estimates. I was out on the farm just before 9pm and it's properly nasty out, I was glad to get back into the van and home. Presume these people are in a warm house with full bellies. They out be pegged out in this weather for an hour or two as an education instead of moaning about others who are out in it. Believe it or not, there's a few things I won't give out about and the engineers who repair our power lines (no connection to them at all) are one of those. Well remember them going to other countries even to help there after storms.
Mam used to pour brandy over the pudding before wrapping them up in layers of parchment/greaseproof paper, tying them up and wrapping them again in tin foil.
Since Mam became more unwell in 2017 and before she died in 2018 I haven't had any proper Christmas pudding. She always kept a couple in storage. If the weather got bad and the electricity went that she would open one (1982 and 2010/11) or for Easter.
They'd find something to object to about that as well. Kinda why I'd prefer if we just had a bypass type road around the city, the rest of the world doesn't have to deal with their in city dithering then.
I think it's Boru, I have an 8kw one a few years now and can't fault it. Iirc Stanley started making them in China and the quality deteriorated
Always thought a tunnel would have been the obvious solution for Galway - probably would have saved years of planning issues too
I'd say 10 hours help with their jobs would be the most thoughtful present.
Soaking fruit in cider, hadn't heard of that one - must try it
Need plenty of alcohol in a pudding, helps them keep. If we were putting some pudding away to keep we would pour a glass of brandy over it. Before storing.
only herself eats cake so it’s not worth making one for one person.
half the galvanised roof came off the sisters mobile and landed on her windscreen . I had it well banded down, it came off in one massive piece. All salvageable once nobody was h
Mam and my Sister used to make about 10 Christmas puddings & cakes to give to family and friends. I used to help them mixing the fruit and dry ingredients and mixing the icing sugar in the mixer. I always hated the smell of the almond paste that covered the Christmas cake before it was decorated with the icing. Mam used to use Guinness in the puddings but Brandy in the cakes. We used to flambe the pudding with Brandy on Christmas day.
Only ever done in a pressure cooker here, served with pouring cream and ice cream.
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