Update
Well I done my work term (60 Hr) with an EC and it was not a greatest experience working with that particular company. The Owner was a complete donkey and expected way to much for a 1st year.
He told me he needed a worker and If I done well he had a job for me. Well after the work term was over he did offer a job for another month but I'm not sure if I will last that long before I hang em of the service mast :grin: Basically he wants a first year to be able to do the work of an Journeyman and he is really expecting to much.
During my 60 Hr work term he spent 5 Min's with me showing me how to splice (not like I did not know
) and was left on my own the rest of the time to do the work, although he came by every few hrs to see my progress and went back to what he was doing.
All he preached about during lunch was efficiently,efficiently, efficiently but yet his style was not very efficient at all. His work deals mostly in new residential with rough in and Finishes and he has all the work to be done in the house in his head and he tells his workers what is to be done. Eg. We arrived at the residence to start the rough in, he told a worker to grab a long stick and made several markings on it for the height of the thermostats, Plug In's, switches, GFI to be used for a guide. The EC then walk thru the whole house (3 floors) and marked on the studs (T, P, GFI, S) with a marker and then the worker took the stick and mark off the entire house to the height on marking of the stick. After all the height marks was done we all went around the house installing the boxes that was required then we start pulling wires.
Here where it got kinda nuts for me, He told me to do all the heating circuits in the house ( Conv heat) and then walked me thru the main floor pointing to the thermostat boxes and stating what each one was for. The walk thru was very quick and was kinda hard to hear what he was saying since there was other trade workers all around sawing/ hammering doing there thing. He started off saying that this TERM (a), (to make this understandable for ya I will label it A)goes back to the panel and feeds the 2 heaters located there and there. The he stated that the TERM (a) supplies power to TERM (b) and TERM (c) in which TERM (b) has a heater here and a heater here and TERM (c) controls a heater located here. Then he went to another part of the house and done the same process again to the other few TERM. Then told me to start pulling the wires and terminate them in the boxes. He then left me alone for the rest of day and checked on me a few times to see my progress.
The next morning before I started pulling wires I went to him and asked him ( to make sure ) where one particular TERM got it Power from and supplied what heaters and he replied to me in a nasty tone " I TOLD YOU YESTERDAY WHAT THAT WAS FOR".
Later that day during lunch he said he was timing me on my progress that morning and stated I was averaging 9 Min's an outlet (splicing and terminating) and he wanted me down to 4 Min's. Yes I know 9 Min's is a bit long but I was being careful not to cut any of the jackets when splicing. I thought If I spent an extra few minutes being careful on every outlet I would not make a mistake and cut the wrong wire or damage the jacket then I would end up spending to of time removing the wire and running a new one. ( Just using common sence but guess he thought it was not efficient).
There was no Electrical plans to look at on the job site for the EC had all the plans in his head (Efficiency huh ?). After completing all the heating I went and ask a co worker who was installing pot lights at that time if he wanted me to run the wires for the pot lights and he replied that he did not know where to run the wires for he got to ask the EC when he gets back (again efficiency huh)
The EC has several jobs sites going at once at different stages so the next day he sent me and a 4th year to do a finish, again he expected for us to have 90 outlets done by the time he came to the site. We had 80 done I believe and he complained that his quota was not filled.
BTW the EC is the only Journeyman and got 2 workers plus me. One worker is a 4th year apprentice and the other is his friend who is not even an apprentice for he never went to school and took the trade. When someone of importance come to the job site, the 4th year and I have to leave the site so the EC don't get into hot water. What a load of Horse droppings this EC is.
Well he did offer me a Month work and I guess I can mark it up as experience and endure his crap and nod and Smile when he speaks :roll: Although I may have chance of working with a different EC this week and tell Mr Efficient that his efficiency is just not efficient for me :grin:
~FyE~
