Professional responsibility for electrical installation quality

Did the crew know how to use a tap and die set correctly?

Run-on's view is that they either do not know or do not care. A dispute over conduit size illustrates his wider concern about following instructions he considers technically wrong.

Run-on replies that his colleagues either do not know or do not care about correct tap-and-die use. He connects his electrical qualification with a refusal to install work he considers wrong. He describes recommending larger conduit because the additional parts cost would be small compared with the labour involved. His concern includes a possible short destroying a control board costing $10,000 or more. That failure remains hypothetical, while his concern about being held responsible explains his willingness to accept an insubordination warning. He says that after speaking with the project manager, his foreman began leaving him alone.