@notafool
You’re a person that deserve my respect, i give you that much.
Klaus, Thanks for saying that. I appreciate it.
I don’t like to compare what I do to lets say our soldiers for instance. They deserve respect.
But, like them, the average Westernized person around the world who has a permanent power grid that supplies electricity to homes and businesses, like here in the States and Canada, don’t even know what risks electricians take everyday to make it possible for a person of any age (almost) to walk in a house or bedroom or workplace and flip a switch so that they can see in the dark, or plug in your laptop, toaster, coffee maker, television, etc… and never think about why it works or how it gets in your home and how many men and some women, put their lives on the line, literally, everyday for that convenience.
I spent 15 years as a journeyman in the IBEW electricians union. I took a class at my local apprenticeship training center on the History of the electrical union in America. It’s basically a history of electricity also. Very amazing stuff was taught about what it took to install the electrical infrastructure for this country. A lot of companies used children as linesmen, lots of what were considered undesirable humans like Asian, Irish, Natives, and the reason being was the death rate and the injury rate.
The IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers)not a sisterhood or a personhood but a Brotherhood is called that still despite having many women members, haven’t been forced to change that by feminists yet and hopefully won’t ever because there never were any women ever allowed to work on electricity because it was too dangerous. It was only maybe 30 yrs ago when they accepted women. And they don’t have it easy.
But back to the thanklessness of our job and the danger.
The IBEW’s logo internationally, is a closed fist with lighting bolts shooting out from around the fist. It is a left hand and the reason for that escapes me right now but, up until I believe the 1970’s that fist logo had only three fingers and a thumb. That was on purpose to show respect to all the wiremen who lost their lives or limbs giving the world electricity to see, keep warm, keep cool, to play, or work.
Do you think about what we do if we had no electricity? Do you think a woman in this day and age could live without electricity?
The same way that people started thanking our soldiers for serving whenever you meet or even see one, maybe people should start thanking electricians and linesmen when they meet one. We die everyday so you can have a cold beer when you get home from work and so the women can use blowdryers and lights to put their masks on every day instead, we get told that we charge too much money to come to your home and fix that s~~~. More electricians die doing residential service electrical than any other type of electrical work. So, yea that guy putting a new receptacle or switch or light fixtures in your home can be killed in your home if he makes a mistake. We all know how many mistakes people make everyday in their office jobs or retail or sales. How many mistakes that you make at work will kill you or if not kill you make you wish you did die instead of living like a burnt pork chop.
If people were told that when they go to work everyday, that if they made a mistake when they filled out a form, or put the wrong item on the wrong shelf or gave the wrong change or typed the wrong word or misspelled a word, that they just might not see their family again, how many would choose not to work? 99.9999% of women and probably 50% of men.
Sorry about the rant.
Thanks again, Klaus
" if women didn't exist , all the money in the world would have no meaning" Aristotle Onassis "Women are like Elephants, everyone wants to look at them but, nobody wants to have one" W.C. Fields
NotaFool 2 years, 8 months ago.
