Long long ago I had a job request to run a LAN connection to the wlmgca01 power room for power monitoring -- checked out the job, told them to run me a conduit from the LAN room to the power room.
So they did. 150 feet, six 90 degree bends, no junction boxes, no pull string. Told them that was not acceptable. They never got back to me.
Today I had a job request to run a LAN connection to the wlmgca01 power room for power monitoring -- conduit run and unterminated cat 5 cable placed in conduit. Cool! Go to the LAN room, a contractor had run a conduit with a "coleman cable" brand cat-5 cable. Go to the power monitoring thing in the power room and see the same cable. place both, terminate on jacks. Plug my laptop in, no connection. Double check my jack connections. Good. Give a pull on the cable, pull out about a foot or so of slack. Go to the other end, pull out a foot or so of slack. Check the first end, slack still there. The cables are not the same cable.
Trace conduits -- instead of running from the LAN room to the power room, both conduits were run to the Engine Room and terminated inside the Engine control panel. What??? It is also not the original conduit I saw with a j-box added. But I did see the added j-box. Look again, find another conduit -- with a pull string! Yippie. Grab a box of wire, climb into the cable rack to tie an end to the string.... um.... good thing I hadn't pulled the other end of the string, it wasn't tied off. And it was not a pull string even if it was inplace as a pull string -- it was waxed lacing twine. But I try, and I do manage to pull my cat-5 cable in (I'm sitting at the power room end right now, connected to the LAN thru it.) When pulling the string I pulled a 3/4" ball of twine out that had been at the j-box where they tied two pieces of twine together and just wadded up the excess into a ball rather than trim the knot.
The bad part is -- someone got paid to do that crap work. Paid? He should have been shot and chopped up into dog food - burying is too good for him.