whelan2 wrote: » One of our Angus bulls had a pig tail post wrapped in his ring this morning
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
Telecoms work?. im in the same field myself
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.
God experience if it was so varied.
It was but there is some truth to the old saying about "jack of all trades"
ATMs you say? So, after you get it out of the wall, what's the best way to open it? 😀
Asking for a friend...
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For a cold,wet, blustery day out, it looks like it was warmer on the "youtubers" thread.
Personally don't doubt that esb workers on the ground do there job & what's asked off them.it's the lack of investment in the existing infrastructure in rural countryside by the company I think is a issue.
I'm talking old,rotten in many cases,poles & lines with tall trees close by that have in the past & do cause trouble in windy storms.
ESB maintenance locally here anyway is unusual nowadays it seems to me, seen more of it 20 years ago.
Use to send a tractor & saw round years ago, now it's a small team of lads doing a quick dressing beneath lines.2 seasons growth later & it's back up.
All I see is Glanbia plc will try and buy everything for the lowest possible price i.e. milk ,grain and sell everything at the highest price i.e. its share of glanbia Ireland .The price is too dear in my book but then again farmers are not business people!!!
wrong tread how do ypu edit or transfer to another tread does anyone know
Copy and paste. I'll delete the misplaced post. The one above?
Bungalow bliss on RTE tonight, we bought this bungalow because it was wrecked and we could afford it @€325,000 and they have €130-140,000 to put into it 😳😳😳
Half a million for a small bungalow Jesus they should have got a house in Donegal
Ya. In order to borrow for that you need near €100,000 saved and about €140,000 annual combined income. Mad.
The couple involved in this build are coming across as two really nice, down to earth people. I hope it all works out for them.
I hear a laptop is the handiest way, I am guessing someone over on the Tinkering thread might know more...
Stayed in manys a tin roofed house on my travels but in fairness hearing the rain hit off it was little and often and always welcome out there.
Anyone with a potato store. Can you hear the rain falling on the insulated sheeting?
You'd imagine the insulation would take the drum effect from the sheeting.
Reminds me of 2004-2006'ish property fetish that was going on. Every w@nker talking up their 'portfolio'.
As bad as it was in the early 2000's & recession years, I don't envy young people starting out today.
The rain & hail is one issue but those roofs make it wild uncomfortable during any kind of warm spell as well. Cold in winter, noisy in wet weather, oven in warm weather. It's like that twin wall polycarbonate people went sticking on sun rooms for a few years.
They spent about 300000 after, I suspect the bank of mum and dad is there somewhere or someone died somewhere, they don't look affluent enough for that income.
A neighbour had the same problems re the poor foundations and he buit the house himself
Looks can be very deceiving wrangler. The homeless beard means nothing nowadays. That man is a university lecturer,combined with a lot of freelance work.
My best friend works for a large company in Dublin, on €120k a year. Ha has a homeless beard too and hasn't worn a long trousers in 5 years. He bought a €520k house recently and had €280k saved. The man is 39.
Ha ha homeless beard! I know of a similar lad who struggled all through school but found his thing in college with a fairly bog standard computer course. He is now a private coding contractor with houses in 3 different countries, and yeah, he never wears long trousers either!
