June 13, 2008
Even Worser
Last month I came across a case of people slitting cables to pull individual pairs out: http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002546.html
That was NOTHING!!
Had a pair of dialtones to be hooked up to a phone. Dial tone comes from the giant switch, down to the frame, cross connect to the protectors and out on a cable pair to be picked up at the 1.1 undergound. Piece of cake. Except the dial tone didn't arrive on either pair. Frame checks, got dial tone where she tied down, but not at the cable head. The only thing in between is the permanent wiring installed by Western Electric (or whoever took over the work once done perfectly by WECO.) Two opens in the permanent wiring? I hadn't ever seen ONE before. This morning I check it out. Behind the protector bay, back where the permanent wire is run, some IDIOT removed the PERMANENT wiring so they could bypass running their t-carrier jumper on the frame. They connected directly to the backside of the protector. Naturally, when their circuit was disconnected no one thought of repairing the destruction of corporate property that they committed.
When I dragged the comm tech over to correct he was about to cut the jumper and bean the wires!! "WHAT??? Unwrap the jumper and wrap the permanent wire down correctly!"
Sometimes it is GOOD that I do not carry my Louisville Slugger.....
Posted by Paladin at June 13, 2008 08:59 PM