Just in the way they look/dimensions. They would be mounted differently.
Yah it’s a circle
I find it funny how a technician who mounted a signal upside-down by mistake was too lazy to loosen two screws and flip it over… instead went to his/her truck and got a pair of labels… stuck those on instead. You’d think going all the way out to your truck to get some labels to stick on would take more time than simply turning the signal around.
Unless there was a good reason to do this.
My thoughts exactly.
Although, I work with a few people who have demonstrated that they would rather do things the hard way rather than a quick fix. I don’t understand it, but to each his own.
Maybe the technician was carrying the labels with him/her, but even then, I don’t really see a good reason to do this.
Oh, I can believe it! One of the first jobs I had years and years ago was working for a mom and pop operation - mom did the accounting and pop ran the business. Well, they decided to get their teenage son into the business against his desires, he ended up being my helper. By about the third month into his employment, he apparently knew everything about security and fire alarm and I knew nothing, even though I had a good four or five years in. Granted, I was still green myself, and never claimed to know everything, but he was a different mindset. He was suddenly an “expert” and nobody could tell him otherwise. I would catch him installing devices incorrectly or making shortcuts - if I pointed it out to him we would have a 10 minute argument on how his way is the right way (even if it would go against industry or NFPA standards) and I’m an idiot. Forget about going to my boss (his father) because his son was only “asking questions” and “learning”. Anyway, something like this would be typical of what would happen - he would mount the horn/strobe upside down and instead of just admitting it was done wrong, fixing the mistake, and moving on, he would be the one to spend the extra time printing out a label to prove he was right all along!
Sounds EXACTLY like somebody I work with. Thankfully I don’t work alongside him anymore, but I can honestly say I felt your pain.