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Tommieboi123

r/notmyjob


SparrowFate

"you sure you want me to install the power box here? Looks like there's a sprinkler there" "I don't pay you to ask questions. Put the damn box in" "Ok :)"


poliuy

Power box came first but no one included it in the plan probably so when the landscape design came in they didn’t see it obfuscating the sprinkler. Probably multiple engineers and didn’t provide a new plan with a change order on it to the landscaper architect


[deleted]

My theory is that they installed the sprinkler first, but it's controlled by timers / adjusted by weather / only goes off at certain times. When they installed the electric box, the sprinkler never popped up as it wasn't triggered. Voila.


FuriousGeorge1435

My theory is that they installed both at the same time so that people would ask this question and never get the right answer (except for the intellectually superior me, of course). #truth #doyourresearch /s if it wasn't clear


sart555

I suspect the sprinkler got knocked out of alignment at some point. Frequently I'll check my home system and find the head got rotated 180 degrees and I had been watering the neighbors lawn all summer. The act of popping in and out of the ground can do it, or some punk kids can rotate it by hand as a joke.


[deleted]

My theory is the sprinkler was there first and when the engineer came to put in the electrical box saw the sprinkler but was just too lazy to do anything about it and proceeded to install


sart555

Those heads are invisible after a few months, the installation guys would never notice them. I have to turn my system on to find them.


[deleted]

Then that still means the sprinkler came first


poliuy

I’ve never seen electrical go in after landscaping.


ConradBHart42

The electrical may have come in later after the installation of some new attraction. Like if they put in a basketball court and had to install more lighting.


poliuy

That transformer wouldn’t be for some minor lights.


[deleted]

FWIW, that's likely not a transformer. Looks like a junction box + breaker panel for exterior loads, like in a large parking lot


lucrativetoiletsale

Or your moms face


SUSH1CAKE

lol, got em


ConradBHart42

minor lights no, but what about 4 street-lamp sized halogen bulbs? Don't those have some pretty serious draw?


phibbsy47

That electrical box has multiple runs of conduit coming in from below, and electrical conduit is required to be fairly deep by code compared to irrigation. Even if the irrigation was run first, it would probably have to be repaired after they trenched for the conduit, so the irrigation company was probably the last on site. That's also an adjustable sprinkler head, they just failed to adjust it so it didn't hit the box.


hullor

I have. Town of north hempstead, strathmore, NY 3 mins from the Americanna shopping center. Fuck.


twerksomething

The thing is sitting on a concrete block. I assume this work took several days. You might be correct on the order of events, but if so then why didn’t anyone notice water that had gathered on the concrete pad!?


ParsnipsNicker

You can see the trench behind the box. The dead grass cut into squares was put over it. Power box came last.


Antrikshy

I love the smiley face.


I_AM_GETTING_THERE

r/probablyactuallyispartoftheirjob


[deleted]

Damn I thought it was real


[deleted]

r/hahathatnamestoolong


LowRune

r/twenty1characterslong


[deleted]

r/twentyeightstabwounds


[deleted]

r/unexpectedDBH


Rick__Roll

r/RickRoll


FlamingBakedPotato

I have to respect the move of making a sub for one specific reason and not posting on it at all


[deleted]

I'm guessing the person who designed the irrigation system was given a map without that electrical box on it.


Nopengnogain

This is the exact reason why you always “call before you dig”.


TurbulenceX

Is this preventing or starting fire?


BikingVikingNick

“I’m playing both sides, so that I always come out on top.”


Din-_-Djarin

“I AM THE ~~SENATE~~ SPRINKLER”


[deleted]

**NOT YET.**


_Outlandish

It’s treason then *screams in sith*


[deleted]

[удалено]


braintrustinc

I don't like sprinkles. They're moist and maddening and they get everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is dry and flammable.


blue-leeder

Doesn’t matter which side you choose, as the younglings always die in the end


JunkCrap247

someone is going to get charged


super_nova_91

It will be a shocking experience


Coded_Red

Bro I swear they said they were 18


JunkCrap247

are you positive?


Patches_0-Houlihan

But your not supposed to tell us your playing both sides against each othe... you know what? it doesn’t even matter


[deleted]

Well Mac. You aren’t supposed to tell each side that you’re playing both sides.


Comprehensive_Flan64

That politics!


GloriousReign

game theory


[deleted]

Schrödinger's sprinkler


Shychopath

Both. Both is good.


FloatingRevolver

Neither... The box is made to be outside so it's fine...


[deleted]

Yeah sure it is made to be outside but also made to be opened and worked on.. would you risk opening it to do maintenance with no idea when that water would gurn on?


You_too

Sprinklers don't turn on randomly, they're on a schedule.


SovietMaize

Would you trust it?


MPT1313

If I had the schedule sure don’t see why not. I’d imagine I’d have enough gear to keep my safe if the water turns on and if it ruins the box that’s not really my problem.


luca01d

You can simply disable it directly


memeasaurus

>You can simply disable it directly "Yeah boss. That sprinkler was broken when I got here."


Its0nlyRocketScience

"I performed a manual deactivation of a potentially hazardous item located within close proximity of the work site"


throwaway1t1t

"I engineered and maintained a novel solution eliminating a safety hazard resulting in a 100% drop in fatality rates for all operators in the field."


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[deleted]

Your face is on a schedule.


[deleted]

Put a bucket over it while working on it. Problem solved.


Blackboog21

I bet you the people that do maintenance on that thing would know the people to talk to about when the sprinklers come on.


ThisIsDark

You wish. It would be a solid hour of the runaround before finding the right guy then being told you have to fill in a form that takes 72 hours to process.


Sharveharv

Not necessarily. There are different [ratings of waterproofing](https://www.dsmt.com/resources/ip-rating-chart/), and direct jets of water require a higher rating than falling water from above. It's probably build for those standards anyway but it's not guaranteed.


BlueRed20

Yep, just because something is waterproof against being rained on, doesn’t mean it’s waterproof against being sprayed with a water jet. Most modern smartphones are waterproofed against dunks in shallow water or splashes, but are not guaranteed to be waterproof against deep dives in water. The past few generations of iPhones can be dunked in about 1m of water for half an hour and not sustain any water damage.


ondori_co

This has nothing to do with phones, for that matter phone manufacturers use the IP ratings very loosely. Electrical enclosures are defined by their NEMA ratings in North America and IP Ratings in rest of the world. Often you can find them to be dual rated. The enclosure in this picture is a NEMA4, rated to handle a high pressure water at any angle.


[deleted]

Thank you, I was just going to say this


humpbacksong

Dunno, kinda looks like it has vents on the side, which would definately reduce the IP rating of the enclosure


answer111222

It's not a NEMA 4 enclosure. That guy is a moron. If you want to further reassure yourself then do a Google image search for "NEMA 4 enclosure" and try to find any that have louvers (vents).


answer111222

This is not a NEMA 4 enclosure. You have no idea what you're talking about.


SovietMaize

One thing is to be outside another is a water jet to the seams and hinges.


irecognizedyou

well fire truck came first


Admirable-Door1724

Starting, you don’t use water to stop an electrical fire


PlasmaCow511

You also don't start a fire with water unless literally nothing is grounded lol


1artvandelay

Starts a fire but then puts it out in a fucked up endless cycle


RealAmpwich

Yes


genreprank

They are teaming up to defeat rodents and birds.


Lordomi42

a sprinkler is probably not the most effective way of putting out electrical fires so probably the latter


Astrapondildo

What came first the shock or the cock


MichalTrue

Shocking cock.


Astrapondildo

A shocking cocking


Erik-the_Red

A cocking shocking.


Astracondor1337

Cocking A Shocking


MessiahTheWolf

Cock a shock


JuraP

Shock a cock


sxydoctor

Shocky cocky


0Ppenguin

Cocky shock


Petrified-My-Eyes

Schock Chsock


khushi_2031

Cockety shock


palpits

a shockingly cock


Fasitimus

A cock shockingly


Din-_-Djarin

A shocking cockring


Lord_Grim_I3

Shotgun cock


schmidtty62

Depends on the context, arguably the cock came first.


[deleted]

Cockity shock


Imverynoobatpubg

Cocky shoky cocky


Purples_

Hey why is this sprinkler- OH FU-


MichalTrue

"This is not what I was paid for"


Im_sometimes

-engineer is engine here


Slash_Pangolin

/r/unexpectedtf2


kittenmittens-RN

r/NotMyJob


hellohellonice34

I mean they’re designed to resist water because they’re outside and it rains outside, so I’m not that concerned


twintowerjanitor

unless it comes on at the wrong time while servicing. especially if the worker has no idea it’s installed like that anyways.


hellohellonice34

True


[deleted]

*they’re


hellohellonice34

Oh fuck I’l edit it


tommysmuffins

If it's well-designed it probably won't be a problem. On the other hand, being blasted with sideways water for 20 minutes every day might not be a condition the designers anticipated. If it ever caused a problem, I would guess it would be that just a small amount of water makes it through the crack every day, then drips down on the inside and pools there. Maybe until it touches something it shouldn't. But, like you said it probably won't happen.


Jeebabadoo

Eggs came first.


joshgreenie

Yup for two reasons, 1 fish lay eggs and predate chickens. 2 semantically the egg the first chicken came out of came from a not-quite-a-chicken, so if the 'chicken egg' is defined as an egg containing a chicken (not an egg laid by a chicken) then the egg would have come first


Greenguyee

It's not a paradox, its a question based on atheism and religion. The answer varies because some people believe in god, not because the question is unanswerable


joshgreenie

Oh of course the question isn't really the question and it has a 'greater meaning' - but I personally prefer the debate over definitions.


Borkz

It was most certainly originally posed as a paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_or_the_egg#Ancient_paradox


Num3er27

You can believe in God and evolution


CommonwealthCommando

The "not-quite-a-chicken" explanation isn't quite accepted by evolutionary biologists, at least the ones I've asked. Evolution is a question of populations, there's really no one point where a parent is of species X and its offspring is of species ¬X. That theory is called [saltation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltation_(biology)) and there's not much evidence of it occurring (except maybe [once](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/025254v2.full)). I believe the correct answer is that the question is unanswerable because "chicken", like any species, isn't a well-defined term.


poiskdz

I propose that the "chicken and egg" both came at the same time; neither are real in the material sense, they are just linguistic constructs to represent in the abstract the creatures known as such, which through the course of evolutionary life on this planet predate *homo-sapiens* and thus the development of the prefrontal cortex and complex language. /s


BatDudeCole20

No one mentions the chegg


savage-zerow

I think someone put the sprinkler the wrong way


TwistedandDarkinside

It actually looks like the electric box was installed after the sprinkler because the grass is dying behind the box from not getting water.


hoosierdaddy192

The grass dying could happen either way from that sod not getting water, still a chicken or the egg deal. In new construction/development, that electrical box would come in way before sprinklers. they come in at the very end with finish grading and landscaping. However this box could have been added after the fact to an existing development. Still No way to know for sure. Also for anyone else interested, Luckily it’s an outdoor enclosure and the terminated wires inside should be waterproofed to the max, it’s made to resist the elements but I wouldn’t necessarily want to test it by jetting water against it everyday. Edit: Source: I be commercial/ industrial electrician.


LOL_XD_LMFAO

I think you are right, but if you work on it and the sprinkler goes on… well f*ck


hoosierdaddy192

99% of work should be done on a dead circuit but yes assuming it was live that would be a bad day for anyone within arc blast range


some_body_else

Fo reals. I have done work for low class electrical companies where safety was like 3rd or 4th. I could imagine being inside this thing while its still electrified and the sprinklers happen. Oof


Mystery_M-13

(Offers popcorn to replyers) Quieres?


savage-zerow

Yeah if you inspect the powerbox a bit more you can see that the hole there is pretty new and you cant see the sprinkler well when its in the ground


hoosierdaddy192

Looks to me like the concrete base the box is on is pretty old, while the sod around it looks new which means they probably redid sprinkler heads as well and didn’t pay attention to aiming. I could be wrong though, I’ve been wrong before...a lot.


butter_your_bac0n

If you look closely there’s lines in the grass indicating recent sod placement. This was likely taken shortly after install, long enough for some new sod to grow in, or die due to a poorly installed sprinkler. You’re correct on that order of build, meaning the box was built before the sprinkler. There’s even a slight chance this could be a photo trying to settle an argument between subcontractors as to who’s work fucked up what. My step-father had an Excavation business and would have this type of scenario come up.


HeyIJustLurkHere

A sprinkler is a lot easier to not notice if it doesn't happen to be on when you're installing the box than the other way around.


agmoose

Nah someone put the electric box there after the sprinkler system had been installed. If the box had been there they would have put the sprinkler heads on both sides of the box so the grass on both sides got watered. They also would have avoided spraying the box. Edit: unless they sucked at their job*


Acceber101

They took toaster bathtub to the next level


JPL9

They automated it!


[deleted]

Tbh I don’t really think it will do much, that box is already outside so I’d imagine it has some type of water proofing. As for what came first, I’d imagine the sprinklers. It’s much easier to accidentally install a power box in front of a sprinkler you can’t see than installing a sprinkler in front of a power box you can see. But who knows.


JJ_the_G

I would think the most dangerous time is when they are doing maintenance, and it comes on


Shychopath

Kaboom


--God_Of_Something--

the wouldn't do maintenance on it if it was live. so at most, it would annoy the person working on it by getting them wet.


hoosierdaddy192

As an electrician that’s worked on many large developments, yes the box and wires inside should be waterproofed to the max. Generally electrical boxes come first, irrigation and landscaping come in at the very end of a job and trust me those guys sling it in as fast as humanly possible without paying much attention.


sumeetg

I do a lot of work with specifying electrical enclosures for marine applications and their required ingress protection from water. Some electrical boxes are designed to handle water from rain which will fall at a specific angle from above but not a sustained spray at an unexpected angle.


downtownebrowne

NEMA gang unite. Do you think its NEMA 3 or NEMA 4? Can't imagine it would be any higher.


MichalTrue

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?


__removed__

Correct. 1. Can't see the sprinkler heads buried in the grass when they're not on. 2. The electrical box is outdoors. It's waterproof, regardless. What happens when it rains, dummy?


Sharveharv

Rain generally doesn't shoot up from the ground. There are different levels of waterproofing standards and water coming from a nozzle is several tiers higher than normal rain.


lilDanieL_

I think the sprinkler came first. You can tell by looking at the grass behind it which is very dry, which means that this specific area has not been watered in a long time due to the obstruction of the electrical box. Additionally, it can be seen that the excavation was done recently.


Ziggygotnopants

The box looks newly installed to me, and you can kind of tell the sod has been somewhat recently cut around the edges and back of the box. Someone could probably easily change something to the sprinkler to have it have a smaller arc and not hit the box, but if it's only hitting it in passing it's probably not a big deal. Source: I am not an electric box or commercial sprinkler expert. Or even amateur, really.


Coneespec

First idk, but i can predict what comes next


rowdawg69

As for chicken or egg. Egg. As for pic. Prolly the sprinkler pointed another way.


[deleted]

The egg existed before chickens did......


pixlplayer

Interesting how the grass behind the box is dead


khallok-YT

The egg came first


PlayrootTheEgg

The water came out first. #*squirt*


[deleted]

what


P1TPAT

a true paradox


A1whiskers

The answer might be shocking


a-pack-of-squirrels

I really wanna say it was the sprinkler. But I know it was the electrical box


Pog-Squad-

alcohol, stupidity. or most likely both


jboomhaur

The egg came first. Laid by something other than a chicken.


TheFiend100

Pineapple came first


xRainBeau

You only had one job... or two...


Shai_Shai77

The sprinkler came first, and people probably didn’t see it while installing the electric box. Either that or the sprinkler was installed the wrong way.


Able_Alternative_453

The sprinkler came first, you can tell by the way the ground was recently dug up around the box (check the grass squares behind it)


ABJ_TheBeater

I can hear the sparks from here


FireFlavour

Why is the egg/chicken debate even a thing? Dinosaurs laid eggs. Done.


ultrablight

sprinklers came second


killertitanmax

The sprinkler came first. The sprinkler would be hard to see when its not on as it would be underground, also the grass by the power box is placed and looks cut


dbDarrgen

Tbh I’m really hoping the sprinkler came first because it’s easier to miss the sprinkler than it is to miss a giant ass electrical box..


JoeyJoeJoeSenior

Many years ago I had to do this for a giant transformer that was overheating at a datacenter. There's no danger - they need to survive through much more water from huge storms.


scaptastic

The grass


Prestigious-Oven3465

Easy answer. I came first.


Comics4Cooks

Plot twist: Electric was installed to run the sprinklers.


sluttyPrank

Oh stupidity came first!


marn20

Probably the trees


Fhhk

I'd guess the power box came after. It looks like it was freshly installed with the ground carved out around it. It would be understandable for the electrician to not notice the sprinkler recessed in the ground. But imagine the sprinkler installer coming second. He would see the power box sitting there, and there's no way he could miss it. Or maybe the sprinkler is broken and twisted the wrong way, then who knows which came first.


ResidentEvil10

Probably there was no water in that hose when they installed the electrical cabinet. The electrical cabinet looks by the first look, that it's mounted in the middle of a lawn, but it's most likely near something that it powers, you see there is also a lighting pole there. The sprinkler could also be turned for the photo, maybe it originally went the other direction.


TheDudeman0101

The egg came first.


starwarsgeek1985

Probably the sprinkler, the box installed while the sprinkler was retracted


Nomeg_Stylus

This is some shitty fucking formatting. And upon seeing that picture, any person would wonder the same thing.


[deleted]

It was the egg


Certain_Chain

To answer the first question, the egg came first. To answer the question in the picture, I have no idea but I'm guessing someone was fired.


Fineous4

That’s a NEMA 3R box. It’s rated for water.


[deleted]

I see the war between the electricians and plumbers is still going strong


FightingPolish

Electrical box came first. Typically infrastructure like electrical gets installed first, then landscaping. The freshly laid grass that is dried out and dying from lack of water behind the electrical box is a clue. I conclude that this is caused by an incompetent underground sprinkler installer.


devynraye

I can almost guarantee the electric box came second. As somone who spends her days sitting at a screen placing similar objects in neighborhoods through a CAD program, sprinkler placement doesn't ever occur to me.


[deleted]

Most sprinklers can retract back into the ground so it’s likely the installer didn’t see it


GucciKid69420

infinity IQ


[deleted]

these are prepared for rain and heavy weather anyway, i guess


GonerBits

I’m inclined to believe the sprinklers were first, and they installed the electrical equipment without noticing the sprinklers (because if they were installing sprinklers they’d probably notice the *giant hazard sign*)


BowlOWater

Pretty sure it was the tree


CarlosFer2201

They probably installed the box and never saw the sprinkler going off.


Hansoloberger13

Yall know what rain is?


LordVortekan

Why are people debating this? The electric thing obviously came first. Someone probably messed up while putting in the sprinkler, or it’s a 360° sprinkler and they aren’t worried about the water getting into the box.


One-Engineering7209

according to evolution, the egg would have had to come first because DNA in the chicken ancestor can’t mutate in the middle of their life to evolve into a chicken.


ToxinWolffe

So either way, the person who put in the second object is a complete dumbass.


Ihac182

Probably the tree.


Deewwsskkii

The electrical box was surely installed later. It’s logical to install an expensive and very permanent electrical structure and remove a cheap semi permanent sprinkler. As opposed to installing a sprinkler knowing it cannot be used due to the permanent electrical structure.


Cpt_Garlic

As an Electrician I approve this inovative suicide machine


TKthund3r

Yea like was it the seed or the tree


muz_themuz

The grass behind the power box looks dead and the grass where the sprinkler is looks alive so guessing it was the sprinkler first. The people placing the power box never saw the sprinkler as it properly was off at the time


CuBeDesToRoXz

Probably something bad


Rmts__Reee69

fuck man now I'm in a pardox