I worked for an integrator in '05 and after finishing other work one day, I went to the owner's house, where we were installing a theater. The other installer was doing some work on the front speakers (or whatever) and said I should wire the buttkickers in the second sofa, so I asked "Series or parallel?". He said "Do it the way the others are wired" and seeing that they were parallel, I said "The main wires are parallel and the amp isn't going to work if they're all parallel", to which he barked "Just do it that way!". Next time I was there, the lead installer's first words were "Heads are gonna roll". I asked if he meant because of the way the buttkickers were wired and he said it was, to which I said "I told Geoff that the amp would shut off and he just told me to wire the second set the same as the first- you KNOW damn well that I know how to wire these (he was the car audio installer who worked at a stereo store after I left and we had known each other for years).

The guy who said it was my fault couldn't calculate a series/parallel load if someone had a gun to his head and he needed the whole test period for the CEDIA Installer 1 test. Looked like he was rode hard and put away wet, too. Wouldn't tell me his score, either- I handed my test in 40 minutes after starting, having checked my answers three times- he asked "Give up already?".