result in electric shock, short circuits, equipment damage, or fire.
If you want receptacles in your home to have a particular orientation, have the work done according to your local electrical requirements by someone qualified to perform it.
And if an outlet is loose, cracked, warm, buzzing, sparking, discolored, or behaving strangely, don’t treat the orientation as the problem. Those are reasons to stop using it and have the electrical installation inspected.
How Can You Tell If an Outlet Is Wired Correctly?
You can’t reliably determine everything about an outlet
