interesting read. I've seen way too much wiring like this in businesses too. We usually just walked out.
I can believe it, and probably for the best that you did/do that.
I don't know what lie they perpetrated on the plumber they had to keep calling out to fix some of this shit, but after they closed down they still owed the guy like $6000 in services that I'm sure he never got paid for.
Bonus:
This was the precursor to everything I posted about, this is the kind of shit we had going on for almost a week solid, every day during the winter some new pipe broke in either the car wash building or the maintenance section.
Just going off what the plumber was telllng me that we probably dumped about 40K gallons of water. It probably broke around, I don't know, maybe around 1-2AM, I didn't catch it until about 6:00am when I went out to check the utility rooms; the pipe that broke was the large main that drove the carwash (which never worked the entire time I was there).
In the room was one of those open-air toasters people sometimes buy to put in small rooms in their house, plus an electrical main that provided power to the automatic carwash.
Anyways, that's all I have to say about all that.