The not a meme meme thread

[Kern Dog]

 

[moparwacko]

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More quality workmanship on display.....so much wrong here it's not funny.

What? Maybe only missing the schmutz?

Besides, it's the low voltage side, what could go wrong?

 

[PRND21]

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He’s stopped at the Peters Inn Motel, shouldn’t be in there very long.

 

[65Bel]

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[69 Sleeper Bee]

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

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Holy moly! Someone had a crappy day at work!

 

[YY1]

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Until one goes bad and/or you have to trace one.

I was the guy who had to do that for over 20 years.

I used to save all the zip ties I had to cut off and dump them on the wiring supervisor's desk.

One year I also included a cost, so he knew how much we were throwing away.
I believe I also included a man hour breakdown as well.
It's only a few minutes per, but when coupled with a thousand or so zip ties, it adds up.
Not to mention the additional down time.

"Pretty" absolutely can NOT take precedence over "functions", and "able to be effectively and efficiently maintained".

The same guy would spend money to fill up the racks with blanks before any equipment was installed.
The typical lifespan of about 40% of them was less than a week before my team removed them to install switches and servers.
Most got either thrown away or stored in the back of the back supply room, never to be seen again.
But new ones would be purchased every time a new building was built or a new rack installed.

 

[Fran Blacker]

In town where I live AT@T had a microwave tower. A contractor installing sewers hit a main cable thousands wires, many were chopped. Not sure if it started the "call before you dig" but a good example of why.

 

[Basket case]

we lost water this Fall when an AEP crew, digging for a new pole hit the county water line.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

In town where I live AT@T had a microwave tower. A contractor installing sewers hit a main cable thousands wires, many were chopped. Not sure if it started the "call before you dig" but a good example of why.

I've had two incidents of hitting stuff... Both times the call had been made....

#1 we were removing a tree stump... Called, assorted utilities came out & everyone said none of their stuff was effected... Backhoe dug out the stump & suddenly we have a pissed off neighbor screaming at us cause her TV went out... Told her we'd called & it wasn't us... Cable truck drove up & down our street for over an hour looking for the problem.. We'd flagged them down & asked if there was any chance our digging had caused the problem... Nope, cable is on the other side of the street... Well while pulling roots we found about a 2" diameter section of some kind of cable, didn't look like what I would expect but when we flagged the cable guys down a second time & showed them what we'd found it was theirs.. Turns out the houses across the street were built a few years earlier than the ones on our side of the street... Apparently there had been a problem with the cable after the homes were finished & yards had been put in so the cable company rather than dig up twenty yards someone from the cable company had decided to jump across the street, Unfortunately no one edited the map...

#2 Again called the underground company & they marked areas of concern... This was a landscaping project at my GF's son's house... We were using a ditch witch, had cut trenches all over the property when we found the water main that was eight feet from where it was supposed to be... Yes we had water everywhere... That triggered all the utilities being called a second time.. They sent out folks to mark everything again... One of those new lines was painted right down the middle of a trench... There had been zero marking of that "feature" previously... Luckily the new marked line and the trench missed the 12,000 volt buried power line by about 4".... Or I wouldn't be typing this...

 

[Fran Blacker]

That program is only as good as records are kept. We're on a dead end road the guy at the end of road did underground service. He's gone and all the neighbors except me are gone. I'll probably never them digging there.

 

[DoomRunner]

 

[DoomRunner]

 

[Brandy]

 

[dana44]

 

[kiwigtx]

 

[Fran Blacker]

So sorry.

 

[kiwigtx]

 

[Roger63]

Before Roadkill was a thing