Change software to disable diagnostics upon leaving the job.
Kone.
Changing a bit in LCE to turn off display.
Schindler and TK..
Old stuff Miconic V and T3, T4 type stuff.
Changing passwords on the diagnostics as they walk out.
I can remember a time when you found out you were going to lose a job you FIXED all nagging issues, and lost the job looking brand new. Your reputation was at stake.
Now days the new thinking is to leave as many problems as you can, and sabotage the equipment on the way out the door.
What Happened????
Funny you mentioned that last part. When my company lost a job that my account was linked to, my apprentice and I went through the equipment, cleaned the hoist way and pit, and painted the machine room floor.
It ran flawlessly for 8 weeks. Then, upon the first breakdown, accusations flew that there was sabotage involved. I just shook my head. Sometimes you can't win.
strikes are different from losing and acquiring contract.
Change software to disable diagnostics upon leaving the job.
Kone.
Changing a bit in LCE to turn off display.
Schindler and TK..
Old stuff Miconic V and T3, T4 type stuff.
Changing passwords on the diagnostics as they walk out.
I can remember a time when you found out you were going to lose a job you FIXED all nagging issues, and lost the job looking brand new. Your reputation was at stake.
Now days the new thinking is to leave as many problems as you can, and sabotage the equipment on the way out the door.
What Happened????
Funny you mentioned that last part. When my company lost a job that my account was linked to, my apprentice and I went through the equipment, cleaned the hoist way and pit, and painted the machine room floor.
It ran flawlessly for 8 weeks. Then, upon the first breakdown, accusations flew that there was sabotage involved. I just shook my head. Sometimes you can't win.
I hear ya..
It's like the unit that has been down for a while. You go over and fix it. It goes down a year later, and then you get the call.
"Your Elevator is broke again.".
elevators, was getting the job cleaned up and the guy with me was going over the machines. He emptied the machine drips, someone put some nuts and bolts in the drip pan and he dumped them into the gearbox!! after that we dumped into a bucket to find that 4 of the 6 had nuts and bolts in the pans. no damage was done and we drained and cleaned the gearbox.
Working a job a hundred or so years ago when the plaster boss informed us he wasn't going to clean up our car & cwt frames sitting in the pit. "Not in my contact' You guys should have covered it up before I went to work. Guy was a real dick. The next day my mechanic showed up with a small paper bag. Asked him what was in there and he said "Just watch" about that time the gut wagon had shown up so all the trades headed for their "Minimum Daily Requirement" of a substance known as "Textured Vegetable Protein" combined with some type of meat that the FBI crime lab in Washington DC has been trying to identify for the last 20 years. It gets all wrapped up in flour tortilla in a factory over in the "City of Industry" and sent out the back door as a Ramona Hand Wrapped Burrito. Well anyway back back to the story. John said said "come on" we headed to ware the plaster guys were working and there sat a full wheel barrow of brown coat. John dumps the contents of the paper bag and told me to mix up up with one of the hoes that has two holes in it. Off to lunch, what was in the bag I asked John, his reply with an ear to ear grin, "Rye Grass Seed."
Change software to disable diagnostics upon leaving the job.
Kone.
Changing a bit in LCE to turn off display.
Schindler and TK..
Old stuff Miconic V and T3, T4 type stuff.
Changing passwords on the diagnostics as they walk out.
I can remember a time when you found out you were going to lose a job you FIXED all nagging issues, and lost the job looking brand new. Your reputation was at stake.
Now days the new thinking is to leave as many problems as you can, and sabotage the equipment on the way out the door.
What Happened????
This sounds like slander to me, are you saying these companies do this, or that this can be done on thier equipment?
I work for a top tier union company, we loose jobs and pick up jobs, and sabotage is not worth it. Our reputation is far more important than a job here and there.
So.. I was pretty shocked/impressed when I read this comment and mentioned it to a buddy in the trade. That just led to us both being confused. How would you even fix this? I initially thought you could just hoist the car, but would the negative pressure in the cylinder not prevent this? If there's no way to get under the car, are you pretty much screwed for every plan except cutting a hole in the floor?
Edit: I guess I should submit something I saw, as well. I'm gonna pretend this was intentional because I want to maintain some faith in the boys that work in my local, but for anyone who has worked on one of those silly GE controllers before, you know that faults are all cleared with one jumper... And all the programming could be cleared with that same jumper after either a slip of the hand or a bit of malicious intent... After another company (won't give it away but it starts with a T and ends with a hyssen Krupp) lost a contract, I walked into one of those. Not a good time....
I work for a top tier union company, we loose jobs and pick up jobs, and sabotage is not worth it. Our reputation is far more important than a job here and there.
While it's easy to trash talk the morals of non-union workers, sometimes it's more ignorance than it is sabotage. We took on a power station where the elevators were previously looked after by anyone on site that could keep it running. Found a gate switch jumped out only because an electrician could troubleshoot well enough to find out where the power stopped... Changed a set of ECI contacts and everything was good again. He wasn't trying to kill anyone (although, he came closer than he realized) but he just didn't know enough to even step foot in the machine room.