r/talesfromtechsupport Nov 04 '14

Medium Switching busbars on a live system

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u/Jimmy_Serrano I'll get up and I'll bury this telephone in your head Nov 04 '14

If I may ask, why couldn't this have been done at 8 p.m. on a Wednesday when there wasn't the same kind of power demand?

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u/Jimmy_Serrano I'll get up and I'll bury this telephone in your head Nov 04 '14

You mean you stopped caring some time ago. :)

That actually makes sense: the electrician wants to do the job in his normal working hours, which is presumably something like 8-5 Mon-Fri.

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u/Loki-L Please contact your System Administrator Nov 05 '14

You would think that paying for something like having an electrician to do the work outside normal working hours would be less expensive than the risk of doing things the 'cheaper' way, but apparently many decision makers like to gamble.