This happened today...
The electrical items in the building in which I work are being safety checked today. That means that an electrician comes around with some kind of handset, presses some buttons, and then sticks green "Passed" stickers all over the place.

In the common room, there is a kettle. It's one of those kettles that has a cradle rather than a plug-in flex. It had used to sit perfectly in the cradle... until the electrician came to test it. It now doesn't. In fact, I reckon it's much less safe after its safety check than before.

The safety man has borked our kettle.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 14:57, 4 replies)

Our safety guy did that too
I bought the tesco value kettle for 5 pounds.

It didn't have an earth apparently.

We bought a more expensive kettle after that.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 15:01, closed)

...
... Ours was an expensive posh one with lights that changed colour according to whether it was on or not. It worked perfectly. Now it doesn't. Boo.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 15:06, closed)

my boss

Once bought on of those light changing kettles several years ago even though it was considerably more expensive than the next one in the series.

It was the right decision as tea time was now extra fun!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 15:25, closed)

Earthless kettles
The lack of earth is fine as the kettle was undoubtedly one of those cheap plastic jobs where everything is double insulated and nothing, short of major physical damage (which would render the kettle leaky and useless), would expose any conductive parts.

You don't expect these safety/test bods to have any common sense or real knowledge of what they're doing do you?
( SteamedCleaner, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 16:45, closed)