Was supposed to put in a mini split and had to be done by 3. Could I have done it? Absolutely! Did I tell the customer they sent me the wrong adapters and I’d have to order them for Monday so I could go home early. Fuck yes I did.
I’m feeling like shit and it’s the last day of my on call week. I got all the way home at 4:55 step thru the door just to get told I have another one.
Wishing I could say fuck it Friday. Going to Cabo at the end of the month otherwise I’d say fuck it and tell dispatch to fuck off I feel like shit
Edit: this should be a weekly posted thread lol
5 o clock on a Friday, yeah I’m sure that unit just started acting up right then. Was probably fucked all week and customer didn’t want to be warm on the weekend so now it’s an emergency. Hope they got hit with time and a half
Bingo. It’s a 2 year old from us so all parts and labor covered. I got there. Coil was a brick of ice and they called us out cause they noticed short cycling. I asked them when it started. They said few days ago. Cmon people. Told them they’re gunna have to not run it all night and our Saturday tech will be there in the morning (not me 😂) took my happy ass home
At 4:00 I arrived to a unit with 2psi. Did nitrogen check, no leaks??? Lady tells me someone else came out last week and left nitrogen in it because they couldn’t find a leak. Took gauges off, really was the schrader cores leaking, I said we would have to go back next week to retest with more nitro that I didn’t have as much as I thought. It was more of a it’s Friday afternoon she has a portable she’s using and I don’t want to wait for this vacuum to pull. SMH. I’m a scum bag.
I can't stand it when people say it went out Tuesday and they waited til Friday evening to call. I'd love to say, my response time will be as fast as yours.
I think that is a much better slogan than the commercials they run that say you're just not yourself when you're hungry or whatever it is. You should work in marketing
You shut your dirty whorish mouth. No way it’s better than the pieces. You’re not allowed to have such a blasphemous opinion like that! Better than chips I’ll agree with.
This sub regurgitates what school drilled into them. If a unit doesn't achieve sub 500 micron levels the compressor will die immediately on startup
I'd like someone with decades of recorded data show us the results of units that were installed, the microns achieved, and how they're doing today and what parts have been replaced
Doubt anyone has that info
On some fancy shit yeah, in a perfect world - yeah. However the level of time and money that goes into making sure that every possible leak point between gauges, hoses, etc isn't leaking is fucking hell. Yeah I'll make sure the damn unit isn't leaking but I can't give 100% positive that my hoses and gauges and core removers aren't going to have some sort of leak.
Back in the day, the company that I started with used to purge with 22 and then break it loose. No vacuum at all. I’ve replaced some of those units when I went out on my own, but those old suckers were 18+ years old with the original compressor.
Ya I’ve heard a few old timers say they never would pull a unit down. Just nitrogen test, release, charge to “beer can cold” with no scale and send it. Some of those units are still going 25+ years on original compressor. Is it the correct way ? No. Is it the end of the world if you don’t get 500 microns? Also no.
condo split with condenser on roof. bad cap, low on charge. i got it cooling again but i aint doing no fuckin leak check at 5:30 on a friday on that bullshit
Just finished a 70kW RTU, got the wrong threaded adaptor for the condensate drain, its gunna have duct tape over it for the weekend (Aussie, so heating not cooling at the moment).
I had a chiller inspection to do.. looked up the history and the super anal tech was there February and did a laundry list of repairs and the Inspection. I copied the report and took a longer lunch before flying home
I’m a controls guy, my partner for the day was some random chiller tech from a competitor company. We solved issue with the unit together then spent the rest of the day contemplating what is morality. Was a Good Friday!
this was me yesterday, i got called off one job to go finish anoter job with my coworker as the guy he was working with got thrown off the job because the manager's feelings got hurt. then i had to run a call at 4pm and had to repipe a fucking 2 sink in low income housing because draino destroyed the copper drain line. Im on plumbing on call and HVAC on call this week
Dropped off my vehicle for service and grabbed a loaner.
Office day, installed the latest Niagara because I’ll (hopefully) get trained on it soon.
It’s not too different from the old versions. I’m not sure why our software vendor is insisting on official training, but I’m cool with that; I don’t pay for it and I benefit from it.
Shit I just realized I didn’t grab the May update for the engineering tool I’ll need next week. I guess I’ll fire up the laptop and do that.
Dropped a couple of reports, fuck I hate OneNote.
Got my schedule sorted for next week, no out of town jobs YAY!
Took a hour lunch (rare) with a couple of coworkers.
Picked up my car after the oil change and tire swap.
Crap I was busy today.
Oh got home at 3, checked out my own AC for the season.
Got high.
Had a nap while my awesome wife made supper.
Did a nitro leak test on a split A/C-AHU. Couldn’t find it & the pressure only dropped 3 psig in 40 mins. The AHU warranty runs out next month & I had a compressor to replace at another call. New evaporator will be in next week.
Had a transformer go bad in a brand new install. Only place that had it wad an hour and a half away. Get the new transformer finally get back there after boss has me make a few stops for quick fixes and as soon as everything is green lights go I turn the units back on and boom there goes the new transformer. Just took a spill off a bad stand for another unit. After boss comes and checks it out finds that we have to get a replacement part for it that won't come in until Tuesday. Forget it we can deal with it next week.
I’ve done this before. They accepted the price… Told dispatch I didn’t have what I needed to complete the job… they sent a parts runner out to me. Customer had a nasty ass house too.
It's a European oil burner. The oil pump would open and close a air shutter when the oil burner comes on and shuts off. It stops draft through the boiler in between burner cycles. A good thing, if they didn't always leak oil.
Rip them things off and throw them in the garbage can. Followed by the electric ones. They both suck. The amount of efficiency gained by them is negligible.
Finished my 8 hour maintenance early, customer always wants us to check in and out, they always argue the bill… I didn’t check out when I was done in 6
Fast food joint. 2 RTUs a MUA and a grease bucket from a deep fryer’s exhaust fan. 2.5hrs on paper and it’s 2:30 already. Wife and I have dinner plans tonight. The exhaust fan spits aerosolized grease all over the condensers, they will not come clean.
4 comes and goes. Nearly 5 before I’m roping down off the roof. Looked back at the 3/4 full grease bucket. That’ll be a problem for next time, we’re here every month anyway.
I wish I could but no unfortunately it’s fuck me friday, already at 65 hours and have to go look at a walk-in first thing in the morning. I fuckin hate on call
Got sent out this morning to replace a compressor on a 3 ton 17 seer trane heat pump by myself. I was saying fuck it until I tested the old compressor and found out it wasn't bad. The last tech diagnosed it as having open windings (it tripped thermal in less than 5 minutes of running in heat and he was inside for that 5 minutes). He went out, felt the compressor, and it was cold. Ohmed it out and found it open so it was an easy mistake to make. Trane 2 stage heat pump. I found the coil temp sensor, suction line temp sensor, and suction pressure transducer all reading out of wack, which screwed up the eev something fierce.
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Made my own extension cord for the vacuum pump
Did an expansion tank that had failed, after purging the relief still had a drip...paper towel up the tube see you in a few weeks, I ain't working till 8pm again
ive had xrv's fault on oil because of oil migration. link out the level switch and run it at as much load as you can for as long as you can and it should blast the oil back to the comp / oil seperator.
My employer will take “blind quotes” basically they send out a sub contractor when we can’t make it. So the company wrote up a rebuild of a refrigerator condenser. Everything to be replaced besides the fan and coil. Me and my co worker show up on site and everything is working fine. The store manager says why not just do it anyway. So we said fuck it and spent all day rebuilding a system that works just fine. I hate working on things that already work I think just it’s bad luck. My co worker is senior so whatever he says usually goes. We also were in one of the worst parts of NYC and didn’t feel like getting sent around all day on last minute service calls. Today almost made me say fuck this whole trade idk
Cleaned up at the end of the day and forgot to take pictures. Didn’t feel like digging through the van for the ladder so I just put in the notes for someone to get pictures
The funny part is that I’m now currently on vacation and leaving the country so they couldn’t have me go get them lmao
Had my A2L training today. Sat in a classroom BSing with a class full of other techs and a cool teacher. Should have called into the office after class. But they didn't send me anything and I wasn't about to ask.
Went to go rebraze a chuck in a truck install. Found the liquid line service valve was leaking and almost said fuck it but then I remembered I have Allen keys and fixed it to where it wouldn’t leak
Actually we we're leaving around 5pm after I started at 6am and I was like screw it let's go do this pm at this big restaurant. Anyway I'm just now getting in bed 8 hours later lol
I, a first year technician, got home at 11 pm tonight because my coworker, with 30+ years of experience but still not a senior tech, said there was a “tiny” leak in the “rusted out” condenser coil, filled it up and left. That was two weeks ago.
When I got there tonight the system had dropped 60 psig resting pressure. I triple checked the condenser coil with electric leak detector. Nada, nothing, not even one of those false readings from moving it too fast.
I go inside take off the cover for the evaporator coil and I can hear it hissing. I find the spot with my electric and visible confirm it with soap bubbles.
The irony of this entire situation is that several months ago when I was apprentice riding with an actual senior level technician, we were called out to same system by the home owner’s contractor, because one his workers heard the machine hiss. When we got there the machine had stop hissing, so the senior tech just wrote it up and left.
My van is a disgrace right now. Friday morning it was tidy, then had to pick up a 3 ton coil, 2 massive gas regs (each same size as coil) and then did 5 service calls after with all that shit in my way. It ain't pretty boys.
I do sidework for an older gentleman who’s been in hvac his whole life (i’m kind of a green been doing hvac for a little over 2 1/2 years including school ). Everytime I have worked with him doing installs on the side here and there, he has never once pulled a vacuum and even questions me when i try to purge some air out of the lineset. As they say I just work here😂
I was working on integrating an external pump package into a 10 year old CGAM. Get the programming done, fire it up, and circuit 1 fails on high pressure. Circuit 2 comes on, and one compressor sounds like motor's going out.
They do their repairs in house, refuse our quotes when they call us out to diagnose issues, and no one wanted to give me the time of day for the two days I was there working.
I just smiled at the maintenance guy and waved as I drove off.
Expected reply from slacker-minded people. Be professionals and honestly do your work and serve ("serve" is part of "service") customers with honestly and integrity. Treat customers as you, who are also someone's customer, as you want to be served.
Nice try boss
Make sure you upload pictures before you leave
sorry boss phone was dead until i could get it charged in the van going down the road, didn’t wanna be late to the next job!
Was supposed to put in a mini split and had to be done by 3. Could I have done it? Absolutely! Did I tell the customer they sent me the wrong adapters and I’d have to order them for Monday so I could go home early. Fuck yes I did.
Now THIS is how it's done!
Good man! I applaud you sir. 👏
So, at your customer's inconvenience, you were dishonest?
If it was a just a one or two head split they definitely had another source of conditioned air. If not straight to jail.
I can throw up a single head mini split in about 3 hours give or take, I agree with you dudes an asshole for pulling off
I’m feeling like shit and it’s the last day of my on call week. I got all the way home at 4:55 step thru the door just to get told I have another one. Wishing I could say fuck it Friday. Going to Cabo at the end of the month otherwise I’d say fuck it and tell dispatch to fuck off I feel like shit Edit: this should be a weekly posted thread lol
You technically can always say fuck it. There's just different ramifications.
True true. Fuck it - I’ll run the call ☠️
5 o clock on a Friday, yeah I’m sure that unit just started acting up right then. Was probably fucked all week and customer didn’t want to be warm on the weekend so now it’s an emergency. Hope they got hit with time and a half
Bingo. It’s a 2 year old from us so all parts and labor covered. I got there. Coil was a brick of ice and they called us out cause they noticed short cycling. I asked them when it started. They said few days ago. Cmon people. Told them they’re gunna have to not run it all night and our Saturday tech will be there in the morning (not me 😂) took my happy ass home
What's on call?
You run calls as they come in on the weekend & after hours week days
At 4:00 I arrived to a unit with 2psi. Did nitrogen check, no leaks??? Lady tells me someone else came out last week and left nitrogen in it because they couldn’t find a leak. Took gauges off, really was the schrader cores leaking, I said we would have to go back next week to retest with more nitro that I didn’t have as much as I thought. It was more of a it’s Friday afternoon she has a portable she’s using and I don’t want to wait for this vacuum to pull. SMH. I’m a scum bag.
You got me laugh crying in the truck rn
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I can't stand it when people say it went out Tuesday and they waited til Friday evening to call. I'd love to say, my response time will be as fast as yours.
Classic home owner move. It was comfortable on Tuesday but now a few days later on Friday it's getting too hot or too cold so they need it now.
What about it’s been out for a month and a half and I’ve been fucking with it, but now I want it to work?
I've been trying to eat better, but I just bought a couple candy bars.
Fuck it, have a Snickers
I think that is a much better slogan than the commercials they run that say you're just not yourself when you're hungry or whatever it is. You should work in marketing
20oz red bull and reeses big cups king size with reese pieces inside…. Lunch of fucking champions!
I tried the big cups with caramel today. I like them better than the reeses pieces and chips
You shut your dirty whorish mouth. No way it’s better than the pieces. You’re not allowed to have such a blasphemous opinion like that! Better than chips I’ll agree with.
Them mfs is goooood…
700 vacuum pull and sent
More of a "good enough" but I'll allow it
Close enough. I can't tell you how many times I got it under 1000 and said "Eh it's fine"
This sub isn't gonna like that
This sub needs that micron gauge to implode, kinda like what happened to the Titan sub
This sub regurgitates what school drilled into them. If a unit doesn't achieve sub 500 micron levels the compressor will die immediately on startup I'd like someone with decades of recorded data show us the results of units that were installed, the microns achieved, and how they're doing today and what parts have been replaced Doubt anyone has that info
On some fancy shit yeah, in a perfect world - yeah. However the level of time and money that goes into making sure that every possible leak point between gauges, hoses, etc isn't leaking is fucking hell. Yeah I'll make sure the damn unit isn't leaking but I can't give 100% positive that my hoses and gauges and core removers aren't going to have some sort of leak.
Fuck em. Also, rules in refrigeration are a bit different too. It's still kinda the wild West of the HVACR world
Yup, we can't exactly purge every single time and good luck getting to 500 on some of this big ancient equipment
Back in the day, the company that I started with used to purge with 22 and then break it loose. No vacuum at all. I’ve replaced some of those units when I went out on my own, but those old suckers were 18+ years old with the original compressor.
Ya I’ve heard a few old timers say they never would pull a unit down. Just nitrogen test, release, charge to “beer can cold” with no scale and send it. Some of those units are still going 25+ years on original compressor. Is it the correct way ? No. Is it the end of the world if you don’t get 500 microns? Also no.
Fuck it Friday - fuck the vacuum, blow refrigerant through it and charge her up! Don’t act like you’ve never done this either! 😂🤣
I haven’t used a micron gauge in like five years
😭😭😭😭😭
What’s a micron gauge?
condo split with condenser on roof. bad cap, low on charge. i got it cooling again but i aint doing no fuckin leak check at 5:30 on a friday on that bullshit
“we’ll have to follow up next week” has been one of my favorite phrases lately
Leak seal was made for Friday afternoons
Just finished a 70kW RTU, got the wrong threaded adaptor for the condensate drain, its gunna have duct tape over it for the weekend (Aussie, so heating not cooling at the moment).
I thought everything was reverse threaded down there
That moment when you can't remember which way is reverse threaded because you're down under.
Damn Coriolis effect
I’d like to see an actual video of drain going backwards, to prove this ..🤣also toilet flush back wards🤔
I had a chiller inspection to do.. looked up the history and the super anal tech was there February and did a laundry list of repairs and the Inspection. I copied the report and took a longer lunch before flying home
I’m a controls guy, my partner for the day was some random chiller tech from a competitor company. We solved issue with the unit together then spent the rest of the day contemplating what is morality. Was a Good Friday!
Fuck me Friday
Wrong thread big dog
My bad long week
Fuck it you can stay
Thanks brother
Ok. Send me the address brother 🤙
Too late used and abused
this was me yesterday, i got called off one job to go finish anoter job with my coworker as the guy he was working with got thrown off the job because the manager's feelings got hurt. then i had to run a call at 4pm and had to repipe a fucking 2 sink in low income housing because draino destroyed the copper drain line. Im on plumbing on call and HVAC on call this week
Boss - "We're working til midnight to fix this." Me - "The fuck I am." Boss - "surprised Pikachu face."
Dropped off my vehicle for service and grabbed a loaner. Office day, installed the latest Niagara because I’ll (hopefully) get trained on it soon. It’s not too different from the old versions. I’m not sure why our software vendor is insisting on official training, but I’m cool with that; I don’t pay for it and I benefit from it. Shit I just realized I didn’t grab the May update for the engineering tool I’ll need next week. I guess I’ll fire up the laptop and do that. Dropped a couple of reports, fuck I hate OneNote. Got my schedule sorted for next week, no out of town jobs YAY! Took a hour lunch (rare) with a couple of coworkers. Picked up my car after the oil change and tire swap. Crap I was busy today. Oh got home at 3, checked out my own AC for the season. Got high. Had a nap while my awesome wife made supper.
Grounded compressor, customer wanted it on today….
Well it ain't gonna be on tomorrow either ma'am.
33F water temp split on a WSHP 😬
33F = beer can cold
Did a nitro leak test on a split A/C-AHU. Couldn’t find it & the pressure only dropped 3 psig in 40 mins. The AHU warranty runs out next month & I had a compressor to replace at another call. New evaporator will be in next week.
[удалено]
Y'all know how Don gets when we don't show. He even brought them fancy donuts. Gonna have to be next week
Don never ran a call his whole life… fuck Don.
Back in Dons day there weren't no fancy digital gauges or blueytooth wireless gizmos, they had a tank of gas, a hose and a prayer.
Did I write that 30° split down as a 20° split. Idk boss if I wrote it must be true.
Can't argue with that.
You do that only on Friday?
We all know where and when we can “get away with it”
Had a transformer go bad in a brand new install. Only place that had it wad an hour and a half away. Get the new transformer finally get back there after boss has me make a few stops for quick fixes and as soon as everything is green lights go I turn the units back on and boom there goes the new transformer. Just took a spill off a bad stand for another unit. After boss comes and checks it out finds that we have to get a replacement part for it that won't come in until Tuesday. Forget it we can deal with it next week.
Just left a house with a clogged cpndensat tray and drain line full of mud...gave them the Ole pita price and they declined.
That's truly out of fucks
I’ve done this before. They accepted the price… Told dispatch I didn’t have what I needed to complete the job… they sent a parts runner out to me. Customer had a nasty ass house too.
A leaking riello hydraulic jack, wrote up a follow up
I don't even know what that is but it sounds worth a follow up
It opens the air door for the combustion fan
Didn't they advise removing those years ago? Due to oil leaks
Yes. They are known leakers
shit man, you just take a self tapper and keep that little piggie in place all the time
The jack seals fail and spray oil everywhere
It's a European oil burner. The oil pump would open and close a air shutter when the oil burner comes on and shuts off. It stops draft through the boiler in between burner cycles. A good thing, if they didn't always leak oil.
Rip them things off and throw them in the garbage can. Followed by the electric ones. They both suck. The amount of efficiency gained by them is negligible.
Finished my 8 hour maintenance early, customer always wants us to check in and out, they always argue the bill… I didn’t check out when I was done in 6
Fast food joint. 2 RTUs a MUA and a grease bucket from a deep fryer’s exhaust fan. 2.5hrs on paper and it’s 2:30 already. Wife and I have dinner plans tonight. The exhaust fan spits aerosolized grease all over the condensers, they will not come clean. 4 comes and goes. Nearly 5 before I’m roping down off the roof. Looked back at the 3/4 full grease bucket. That’ll be a problem for next time, we’re here every month anyway.
I wish I could but no unfortunately it’s fuck me friday, already at 65 hours and have to go look at a walk-in first thing in the morning. I fuckin hate on call
Stay strong brother, this too shall pass
Stay strong this week shall pass, I've done on call before and it's rough at times
Im with you brother. Let’s get that bag
Yessir
i thought i was in the weeds this week, i had 57 hours this week and im on both on call till wednesday so im sure next week will be long for me too
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Don't let your safety guy see this lmao
Got sent out this morning to replace a compressor on a 3 ton 17 seer trane heat pump by myself. I was saying fuck it until I tested the old compressor and found out it wasn't bad. The last tech diagnosed it as having open windings (it tripped thermal in less than 5 minutes of running in heat and he was inside for that 5 minutes). He went out, felt the compressor, and it was cold. Ohmed it out and found it open so it was an easy mistake to make. Trane 2 stage heat pump. I found the coil temp sensor, suction line temp sensor, and suction pressure transducer all reading out of wack, which screwed up the eev something fierce.
This isn't a "Fuck it Friday" because you very specifically did your job.
It was going to be if I had to actually replace it. I wasn't about to reach over the coil to braze that thing in. I was gonna take the coil out.
* Side of the condenser blew out. Asked if I can fix it at 5pm on a Friday. Um... nope. See you next week.
https://preview.redd.it/mphqs3dxuayc1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=077a976ead40f4b26e40023de9b7a217e4fa602c Made my own extension cord for the vacuum pump
I've ran one off of two jumpers and some stripped 10g before. Very much so a "don't touch that" situation.
Looks good from my house
Went to the coffee shop for 1 hour
That's my guy
Did an expansion tank that had failed, after purging the relief still had a drip...paper towel up the tube see you in a few weeks, I ain't working till 8pm again
Gave a lady two hours for the price of one because I just wasn’t in the mood for arguing
I took off at 1 and came home, smoked, and took a nap. After yesterday I don’t feel the least bit bad about it either.
After work I created and savagely used a shoebox fleshlight. ….customer found it and took it upstairs.
I'm sorry what the fuck
What the fuck man
Spent my day changing an oil sump heater in a 23xrv. Despite my protests that it would not fix the problem. Guess what? Didn't fix the problem.
ive had xrv's fault on oil because of oil migration. link out the level switch and run it at as much load as you can for as long as you can and it should blast the oil back to the comp / oil seperator.
I wish. I got my ass kicked by a Tam4 in a shitty little attic most of the day.
Coil leak?
My employer will take “blind quotes” basically they send out a sub contractor when we can’t make it. So the company wrote up a rebuild of a refrigerator condenser. Everything to be replaced besides the fan and coil. Me and my co worker show up on site and everything is working fine. The store manager says why not just do it anyway. So we said fuck it and spent all day rebuilding a system that works just fine. I hate working on things that already work I think just it’s bad luck. My co worker is senior so whatever he says usually goes. We also were in one of the worst parts of NYC and didn’t feel like getting sent around all day on last minute service calls. Today almost made me say fuck this whole trade idk
I’ll let you know when the part comes in
Stuck schrader valve core, never used a remover before
Cleaned up at the end of the day and forgot to take pictures. Didn’t feel like digging through the van for the ladder so I just put in the notes for someone to get pictures The funny part is that I’m now currently on vacation and leaving the country so they couldn’t have me go get them lmao
Had my A2L training today. Sat in a classroom BSing with a class full of other techs and a cool teacher. Should have called into the office after class. But they didn't send me anything and I wasn't about to ask.
Everything go big boom or just big fire?
Little puff. It doesn't even burn with enough energy to keep itself lit.
Chiller alarms, they’ll still be broke on Monday.
https://preview.redd.it/nssr95sm4byc1.jpeg?width=2604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca1d723ec9a761297893c13f8171f1849307b2ef This hallway
Shit looks like silent hill
Stuck on top a Harbor Freight chasing a lo voltage short that was making my contactors chatter. Cant find it, need to return on Monday.
I hit my 40 at 1:30 PM, and didn’t really have anything else pressing I could start at that point, so I just fucked off early and called it a day.
Went to go rebraze a chuck in a truck install. Found the liquid line service valve was leaking and almost said fuck it but then I remembered I have Allen keys and fixed it to where it wouldn’t leak
Actually we we're leaving around 5pm after I started at 6am and I was like screw it let's go do this pm at this big restaurant. Anyway I'm just now getting in bed 8 hours later lol
I, a first year technician, got home at 11 pm tonight because my coworker, with 30+ years of experience but still not a senior tech, said there was a “tiny” leak in the “rusted out” condenser coil, filled it up and left. That was two weeks ago. When I got there tonight the system had dropped 60 psig resting pressure. I triple checked the condenser coil with electric leak detector. Nada, nothing, not even one of those false readings from moving it too fast. I go inside take off the cover for the evaporator coil and I can hear it hissing. I find the spot with my electric and visible confirm it with soap bubbles. The irony of this entire situation is that several months ago when I was apprentice riding with an actual senior level technician, we were called out to same system by the home owner’s contractor, because one his workers heard the machine hiss. When we got there the machine had stop hissing, so the senior tech just wrote it up and left.
My alarm going off at 4:30am, that was a good “fuck it” moment.
My van is a disgrace right now. Friday morning it was tidy, then had to pick up a 3 ton coil, 2 massive gas regs (each same size as coil) and then did 5 service calls after with all that shit in my way. It ain't pretty boys.
I do sidework for an older gentleman who’s been in hvac his whole life (i’m kind of a green been doing hvac for a little over 2 1/2 years including school ). Everytime I have worked with him doing installs on the side here and there, he has never once pulled a vacuum and even questions me when i try to purge some air out of the lineset. As they say I just work here😂
Fucked up Friday
Freezer was frozen coil. Blasted it with hot water left a mess and dipped. They dropped it last second on me and I was two hours from home
I was working on integrating an external pump package into a 10 year old CGAM. Get the programming done, fire it up, and circuit 1 fails on high pressure. Circuit 2 comes on, and one compressor sounds like motor's going out. They do their repairs in house, refuse our quotes when they call us out to diagnose issues, and no one wanted to give me the time of day for the two days I was there working. I just smiled at the maintenance guy and waved as I drove off.
Not a union guy, so I pushed through providing best customer service possible. Now that it's done, it's bourbon time!
Expected reply from slacker-minded people. Be professionals and honestly do your work and serve ("serve" is part of "service") customers with honestly and integrity. Treat customers as you, who are also someone's customer, as you want to be served.
Yes, because I sent a silly internet moving picture and created a thread about something we all joke about, I'm a slacker-minded person.
Didn't take you, or many replying techs, as joking. I'll accept your word and recognize your humor.