New guy wired a motion sensor backwards for the third time this month

I walked into a new install over on 5th street and saw the motion sensor facing the wall (you know, pointing at the drywall instead of the room). How do you accidentally install the same thing wrong three times without checking the manual once? Has anyone else dealt with an apprentice who just guesses at every step?

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beth_butler7510d ago

Yoikes. That's honestly impressive in the worst way possible. Like you gotta work pretty hard to mess up something that simple three times in a row. At this point the guy's gotta be either actively ignoring the manual or just straight up not reading it at all. I'd be pulling my hair out if I had to keep following him around fixing the same mistake over and over.

kim_brown11d ago

... and I'm sitting here wondering if maybe I should just hand him a crayon drawing instead of a wiring diagram at this point lmao. I swear my first week I wired a three-way switch backwards six times before my journeyman just handed me the book and said "read it out loud to yourself." But honestly the motion sensor facing the drywall is a new one for me, that's like putting a smoke detector in a closet and wondering why it never goes off lol. Guess some people just gotta learn the hard way though, at least he's not burning anything down yet.

emma_murray4910d ago

Twenty bucks says he'll figure it out after he hits it with a broom accidentally.