I finally had a perfect week on the job after 12 years in this trade

Last Tuesday I was working on a MRL elevator in a 6 story building downtown. Everything went smooth from the start. The rails lined up perfectly on the first try and the machine room had cold AC which never happens. By Wednesday I had the controller programming done without a single error code popping up. Thursday we did the load test and it passed on the first run. The building manager even brought us coffee and said we were the fastest crew he has seen in 20 years. Friday I finished my paperwork by 2pm and headed home early. Has anyone else ever had a week where every single thing went right and you almost felt suspicious about it? I kept waiting for something to go wrong but it just never did.

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robert_ross954d ago

Man that feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop is the worst. I had a similar run a few months back on a fire alarm panel swap in a hospital and kept waiting for the building engineer to pop up with some nightmare complaint.

gavin_kim4d ago

@robert_ross95 "waiting for the other shoe to drop" is classic but I think you're giving yourself too much credit worrying about one panel swap. Unless you actually left wires hanging out or bypassed something you know you shouldn't have, the hospital has bigger problems than your work getting on their radar.

evan5434d agoRising Star

I mean, are we sure this isn't overthinking it? Hospitals run on backup systems and fail-safes. One bad panel swap doesn't usually bring the whole building down unless you really messed something up. I'd say if nobody called you back by lunch the next day, you're probably in the clear.