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I was just posting a reply to a query on the DIYnot forum when I realised I had committed the cardinal sin of mentioning a “repair man”. I have never come across a domestic appliance repair woman but assume there must be a few out there somewhere. They say that womens minds work differently to mens so perhaps the ladies could suggest alternative methods of doing jobs, like fitting belts to the newer cheapo tumble driers that don’t have jockey tensioners.
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Phidom wrote:I realised I had committed the cardinal sin of mentioning a “repair man”.
Oh! Wash your mouth out with soapy water :lesson:
In this 21’st century world of political correctness we are all classed as Repair Persons (Except Penguin45 who is a Sphenisciformes and revels in water leaks for obvious reasons).
There are very few female repair persons these days however, simply because that gender were the first to realise the job was rubbish and the pay even worse :rotfl:
Martin
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We had this discussion not so long ago, catch up here:
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3117Re: Any Ladies Present?
Hi guys and girls (got to be careful here)
I would not mind having a female engineer to work within our company because of this:
How many blokes would argue over the repair cost and not pay for the repair there and then, when we all know a woman has an iron toungue.Maybe we can all go on a major recruiting spree across the country for repair women and pay them the same as the blokes. Might even put the worst engineers noses out of joint or it might even make them work harder, increase our profit, stop man flu and all the moaning that goes with the job.
Andy G
dpm wrote:True, and you can’t be an engineer unless you have a degree, so we’re all technicians…
Sreak for yourself 😈
Phidom BSc.
dpm wrote:True, and you can’t be an engineer unless you have a degree, so we’re all technicians…
Looks like Mr Penguin back in the running then 😉
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Very interesting in many ways this thread…
To be refered to as an engineer in the true sense you have to have a degree, which is actually correct.
So where is the engineering degree in appliance repairs ? Pretty much all of us would qualify for that…
Training, qualifications………
One to ponder 😉
Dave.
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Politically correct, Appliance Technician is the correct term.
I think however, from what I can see and have learned over the years is that “engineers” from the forces traditionally drifted into washer repairs and subsequently onto the other appliances and hence, engineer. From what I can gather a lot of these engineers also had little vocational training but one hell of a lot of experience.
Whilst it may not be politically correct in modern society to refer to a repairer as an engineer I should doubt that a lot of them know a lot more than one a uni just churned out to design some the rubbish we see now. 😉
K.
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Interesting – I’m a cartographer by training (anybody want a map?), but yes Bsc (Cantab) 2nd class Hons (don’t spend first and second year drunk) so, am I an engineer? Not technically…..
These days, we dismiss company engineers as fitters. An unfortunate turn of phrase really; back in Victorian times, that is exactly what fitters did – made the early mass produced parts fit together to make the machine work. An extremely skilled, largely intuitive task.
Bodgers? We toss that one about quite freely – also out of context. Bodgers were wood workers who used a sapling powered wood lathe to make all sorts of wooden artifacts from the year dot up to the 18th century.
Then we have Technician. I would suspect that this means we can fit new parts correctly, make value judgements about the condition of parts in danger of failure and analyse problems from the Company data sheets. Is the intuition still there amongst this new breed?
For myself, I have learnt how to recover worn drum shafts and bearing housings, repair innumerable commutator motors, do board level repairs on digital control boards, fix timers and God knows what else. On top of that I’m a world authority on the Austin 1800 and its variants ( 😯 )…… So, yes, I think I’m an engineer – just the wrong degree!
Experience is everything when you get down to it.
Oh, and as a by the way, Julia (the Mrs) once did a 95 Hotpoint spider and bearing in 35 minutes. I wish I could still persuade her to go out to work……….
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Chris
surely not the Austin all aggro that no matter how slow you lifted the clutch, it still went kangerooing down the road.
Andy GRe: Any Ladies Present?
1800 not Allegro……. Huge, fast, comfy, pug ugly. It was in the car park at Sibson…..
Chris.
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