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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Barman on March 15, 2019, 07:03:14 AM

Title: Quiz
Post by: Barman on March 15, 2019, 07:03:14 AM
Okay, here is a quick Friday quiz based on something I discovered last night...

Q: How much (in €) do the British Bases pay for a Cypriot electrician to PAT Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_appliance_testing) each electrical appliance across their four sites here...?

Answers in the comments - no prizes just for fun shocks (see what I did there?)...
Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 15, 2019, 07:22:34 AM
It can't be that much surely ??   scared2:

When the bozos come and do it in our place it looks ever such a complicated procedure. Pick up device / appliance....check plug....switch on ....switch off...put sticker on it  rubschin:
Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Barman on March 15, 2019, 07:24:44 AM
It can't be that much surely ??   scared2:

When the bozo's come and do it in our place it looks ever such a complicated procedure. Pick up device / appliance....check plug....switch on ....switch off...put sticker on it  rubschin:

Yarp, I think the most skilled part is writing the sticker out... ::)

How much do you reckon...? Popcorn:
Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 15, 2019, 07:31:14 AM
€10 euro per item ????
Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Barman on March 15, 2019, 07:32:09 AM
€10 euro per item ????

Pah... ::)
Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 15, 2019, 08:57:37 AM
€10 euro per item ????

Pah... ::)
At least €50
Electrickery is a license to print money.
I have heard for PAT testing, that an organisation with a few hundred appliances find it cheaper to get one of their staff trained and buy the testing box, rather than get a man in.
Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Barman on March 15, 2019, 09:02:03 AM
€10 euro per item ????

Pah... ::)
At least €50
Electrickery is a license to print money.
I have heard for PAT testing, that an organisation with a few hundred appliances find it cheaper to get one of their staff trained and buy the testing box, rather than get a man in.

Not quite that much Mr. Darwin Sir...  ;)

But you are quite correct, a PAT Tester is ~£300 and the training isn't much more than knowing which way up to stick the label once you have written the date on it... ::)
Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Steve on March 15, 2019, 10:43:44 AM
€100 an item?

Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Barman on March 15, 2019, 10:44:50 AM
€100 an item?

No... Less than wot Mr. Darwin Sir said but more than Miss D said... ::)
Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Steve on March 15, 2019, 10:56:10 AM
€100 an item?

No... Less than wot Mr. Darwin Sir said but more than Miss D said... ::)
So about £25 then in real money  eeek:

prolly comes under some subsection of our foreign aid budget.  A sneaky way to put money into Cyprus so they can afford all those fixes they're doing for subsidence . . .  .



 . . . .  . redface:



Contracts like that are really easy to set up with the MoD.
Title: Re: Quiz
Post by: Barman on March 15, 2019, 11:02:38 AM
€100 an item?

No... Less than wot Mr. Darwin Sir said but more than Miss D said... ::)
So about £25 then in real money  eeek:

prolly comes under some subsection of our foreign aid budget.  A sneaky way to put money into Cyprus so they can afford all those fixes they're doing for subsidence . . .  .



 . . . .  . redface:



Contracts like that are really easy to set up with the MoD.

Less than £25...  ;)

It is worserer than that, they are obliged to use Cypriots for much of the 'non-essential' work (i.e. not arming aircraft but maintenance, etc.) on the bases... Paying through the nose for stuff seems to be a way of preventing 'Brits out!' protests outside the gates every day... ::)