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Oh, forgot to address the other questions.
>Is the pay good?
Self employed, so it's whatever I want it to be. At the current site it's £180 a day, which is pretty good considering how little work I actually do. Might be bumping that up to £200 soon, though.
>Are you actually good at it or just have the tickets and barely know how to operate?
People tell me I'm good, and I've been specifically requested by a few people, though I have my doubts about my abilities. One guy wanted to fly me to india to do the work on his manor there. *no-fucking-thanks*.
>How often does management question what you are doing with no idea on how to do what you do?
Brown skin customers often love to stick their oar in about how they think is the best and quickest way to do the job. I'm quite happy to do it how they want if it means I end up with my arms crossed unable to work due to their inability to plan ahead. Doesn't matter if I'm there 8 hours or 8 minutes, I charge by the day, not the hour.
>Do you hate truck drivers?
Not really. Not had many dealing with them, but the few we've had have been fine.
>Post HME operator stories and share advice/tips and tricks
My brother once barely nicked the mains eclectic cable feeding an entire estate of houses, and it blew a fucking huge hole in the bucket of the machine and killed power for a few hours. Ended up being SSE's fault, though, as the cable wasn't even in the same postcode as what was drawn up on the plans.
Also, pic rel is Instalcom's (contractor for SSE) work, and their idea of a job well done. This is the main electricity feed for an entire estate, and it was a complete joke. They just laid the warning tape directly on top of the cable, completely negating the point of the waring in the first place, and collapsed half of the trenches before doing even that. Fucking awful work.
