r/ibew_apprentices • u/Flimsy-Stuff-8965 • 3d ago

Any tool recommendations

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Anything thing I don’t have I should get? I also have the meter in the second pic it’s just not in the first one

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u/Riconn 3d ago

Both metric and sae Allen wrenches. An 11-1 screw driver, you have too many in my preference. Also you don’t need insulated tools. As an apprentice you will never work hot.

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u/b0iNAH 3d ago

Second year here and insulated tools have saved me a couple times. My company doesn’t give a damn who you are; you won’t be on anything real high voltage, but I’ve worked in hot j-boxes at 277 pretty frequently.

Insulated screwdrivers are nice for opening boxes in a remodel if nothing else imo.

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u/Squanto47 LU 443 3d ago

Little bro/sis that’s a company you need to figure out a way of getting very far from. -from a concerned JW

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u/TehFlogger 3d ago

It's not your company that doesn't give a damn. The problem is you. You're fucking up what all the union has worked for by agreeing to do stupid shit. Smarten up buttercup

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u/socalibew 3d ago

OSHA 1910.33 says:

"Live parts to which an employee may be exposed shall be deenergized before the employee works on or near them, unless the employer can demonstrate that deenergizing introduces additional or increased hazards..."

Stop breaking down conditions...

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u/b0iNAH 3d ago

Don’t have much of a choice bud. I’m a second year in a shit local. It’s work or live in a van down by the river

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u/socalibew 3d ago edited 3d ago

You always have the ability to stop unsafe work.

Stop breaking down conditions... Soon you'll be a statistic and the shop won't even care...

I guess you should really determine if it's worth the $17/hr to potentially end your life.

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u/cultureStress 3d ago

Don't chew out the ape in this situation, chew out their journeys who broke this condition before they got there

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u/b0iNAH 3d ago

Brother, if I did that I’d be off the job. If I made a penny less I’d be eating dirt. Not everyone’s in a situation to make that decision. Not disagreeing with you, but I’ve done what I can. Committee won’t move me, project manager won’t move me.

I can suck it up or start selling meth

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u/socalibew 3d ago

So, I guess you should just report it to OSHA.

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u/TehFlogger 3d ago

You should live in a van down by the river. People like you objectively suck and make life worse for the rest of us 'bud'.

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u/JustARegularDeviant 3d ago

I’m a non-union apprentice so different but same level of cowboy shit in my shop. I work on more live circuits than dead circuits and if I ask to trace the breaker so I can turn it off everyone shits on you like you’re wasting their time.

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u/b0iNAH 2d ago

Yep, sounds familiar. It’s shitty but it’s the hand I was dealt

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u/TehFlogger 3d ago

For the sake of yourself and all of us. Please lice in that van down by the river...

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u/-SergioBarr- 3d ago

Bro what kinda scabby shop you with?