today sucked at work
was luckt in a way but made me feel shitty anyways
as some know i work in the city of london digging up the roads to lay new electricity cables the cables range from 11000 volts upto 132000 volts
today i was digging near st pauls cathedral and laying ducts and cable for 80,000 volts.in order to lay th enew cable i have to dig with a 3 tonne digger around live cables so the new ones can be connected
as always i read the drawings and proceeded to dig after deciding which cable i needed to locate.according to the drawings there was 5 cables at a depth of 700mm however as i found out there was 7 at a depth of 400mm.once i hit the cable the digger i was driving was hit with approxiamately 15000 volts luckily for me the machine is well earthed with rubber matting and controls etc etc.i was unhurt just badly shaken and the real lucky part was that my labourer was not in the hole or near the hole otherwise he coulda been badly hurt or even killed.
the part that really pissed me off is that tomorrow i will have to have a drink and drugs test to see if it was my incompetence that caused this.
i cannot see how it could possibly be my fault when the drawings are wrong but as always the top nobs cover their backs and fuck the rest.
so i guess come friday i will be telling them where their van is parked and the keys can be located
and will start a new job on monday.
it was not my fault and i wasnt under the influence of either drink or drugs so am toitrally in theclear
ok my rant over
