January 19, 2004
Mission Impossible, day 7
Get an e-mail, they want three of the call center phones in the equipment room for test purposes. This is no problem, just unplug the phone from the desk, bring it into the equipment room, slip a 66-block to RJ48 adapter on the floor cable and plug the phone in. Piece of Cake!
They want the cross-connects done today so they can start testing tomorrow. Forget that the plan I got in e-mail last week gave me 'til Thursday. So I work more overtime. Did I mention that I hate overtime? When I was in the Switchroom in the '80's I was in a competition with Jim Paterson for who could turn down the most overtime. Never could catch 'im.
So I get the assignments, position to vam port, then sit in the '41 building for about six hours straight running 139 two-pair cross-connects. 1112 punches.
They have a neat toy in the VAM cabinet. Most people just place a keyboard, mouse and monitor on a couple of shelves for connecting to the servers.
This thing has a one rack unit high pullout with everything!
