9inch grinder broken

[brightspark]

I once had to drive 40 miles to flick a switch.

i went 75 miles to tell a tennant to put credit on there key meter it happened quite often brilliant for me 70 quid plus fuel

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Best call out, recently.
8.5 hour round trip.
On the demand of a customer.
To turn a key from ON to Off.

Got home on the Friday morning, got the day off, paid. Double bubble on the call out.
Customer paid £2 a mile, one hour out of hours certificate fee. Plus a listing on the portal that she is not to be trusted with a fire alarm.

It was 200 miles each way.

 

[Hopefuldave]

Best call out, recently.
8.5 hour round trip.
On the demand of a customer.
To turn a key from ON to Off.

Got home on the Friday morning, got the day off, paid. Double bubble on the call out.
Customer paid £2 a mile, one hour out of hours certificate fee. Plus a listing on the portal that she is not to be trusted with a fire alarm.

It was 200 miles each way.

Meh...
Called out 6:15 on Friday night to Home Office datacentre in the Forest of Dean, courier meeting me there with the router card needing changing, arrive about 9 then get signed in and security pass and wait for the part, speak to the site engineer "You can't do anything until the Mainenance WIndow, 3 am". "I'll go get a pizza then". "No, can't leave site until you're done". Ring for a Pizza...
3am Saturday - get into the datacentre walk up to router, and it's a different model, wrong card... Call the office, arrange for the right card, call site engineer "Window closes 7am" - car won't get there until 8am...
Bed down inthe tearoom, lucky I keep a sleeping bag in the car!
Courier arrives 8:30 with card - ring the site engineer, "can't leave site until it's fixed" - next maintenance window 3am (Sunday morning), find a book to read in the car, later order delicious chinese for delivery...
3:30am Sunday Morning - right card, still not fixed, Ring the office and get a power supply on its way - for 9am of course
"Cant' leave site..." but replacement PSU arrives at 9, quick drive! Order aother takeaway, read book, order pizza.
3:15 Monday morning - it works! Ring site engineer "Can't leave until the netwrk manager confirms it's up, Monday 9am.
9:45 Monday - confirmed, 3 hour drive home.
Curious company OT policy - any continuous job that went into 6pm saturday - 6am monday got double time, triple time for the Sunday hours... works out as 67 hours, double time, 24 of them at triple time... for one weekend. Boring, but a nice holiday paid for even after the taxman took his cut!

 

[Robotstar5]

We used to get paid 4 hours for a call out, but you had to be on site for a minimum of an hour to qualify so it was usually sort problem in 10 mins then sit drinking coffee/surfing t'internet for 50 mins then go home

 

[Hopefuldave]

We used to get paid 4 hours for a call out, but you had to be on site for a minimum of an hour to qualify so it was usually sort problem in 10 mins then sit drinking coffee/surfing t'internet for 50 mins then go home

Or get home, stand in the kitchen and put the cooker hood on "Yeah, in the car, just on my way back"...

 

[Robotstar5]

Or get home, stand in the kitchen and put the cooker hood on "Yeah, in the car, just on my way back"...

Unfortunately we used a clocking system so payroll would log your time on site.

 

[Hopefuldave]

Unfortunately we used a clocking system so payroll would log your time on site.

Ah, BT brought one of those in - that's when I took the very generous redundancy package...

 

[Pete.]

We used to get paid 4 hours for a call out, but you had to be on site for a minimum of an hour to qualify so it was usually sort problem in 10 mins then sit drinking coffee/surfing t'internet for 50 mins then go home

I had no idea you used to be a plumber

 

[Robotstar5]

I had no idea you used to be a plumber

plumber/fitter/sparky/carpenter, it was a small factory and we had to turn our hand to anything on maintenance