http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/ Paladin's daily comments en-us 2010-02-23T11:46:12-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002782.html Why do they thank me for calling them when I have no other choice? Things I would rather do than call the Help Desk and speak with a script reader in India.... Have my skin removed with 40 grit orbital... Daily Grind Paladin 2010-02-23T11:46:12-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002781.html Every once in a while I get to go out into the Real World and work on something *other* than a phone company building. This one is a part of some nation-wide WAN project, I get to put in... Daily Grind Paladin 2010-02-17T19:28:30-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002779.html My boss is a New Hire. He joined Ma Bell about 10 years ago, straight into management. Did not work his way up from Craft. Hence does not know the system. Causes some friction, but we can deal with it.... Daily Grind Paladin 2010-02-12T08:19:25-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002777.html For about two decades I've worked 7am-3:30pm with a half hour lunch. They now require 7-4 with an hour lunch. Whereas I use to just ignore lunch and they got an extra half hour, I'm now making it a point... Daily Grind Paladin 2010-02-06T15:17:15-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002778.html Old saying, "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" -- taking from one source to use elsewhere leaving you still owing. I figure it is much better to kill Peter so you can simply loot the body, no need to pay back.... Daily Grind Paladin 2010-02-05T16:33:09-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002776.html Quite a while ago I posted a picture of my bathing Tripod, asking whether I should use Tide or Woolite: (note, Wendy would not allow me to try this.) This is actually a far better method of cat bathing... Paladin 2010-01-26T14:09:25-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002773.html Tonight is the last night for this year's Christmas Lights: I'm nearly done taking down the first of the two pine trees, left just a tall stump. Ran nine strings of green LED lights up the stump to make a... Paladin 2009-12-31T23:02:35-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002772.html Another year almost over, another year I'm late getting my Christmas Shopping done. Here I am, AGAIN, riding off on my motorcycle. Also see 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005. I seem to have neglected posting a picture the first... Personal Paladin 2009-12-19T14:48:54-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002771.html I was working on swapping the positions of two 'phones. A non-related third phone loses one of it's three lines. Obviously something I did. Since I had a bit of time left yesterday I go over and talk to her.... Daily Grind Paladin 2009-12-12T12:10:59-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002770.html Last Monday Morning walked in on a ticket, go look at the "A" router. So I look, ugly red light. Call the ENO (don't ask what that stands for!), we poke, do a power cycle, yep, dead supervisor card. It... Daily Grind Paladin 2009-12-11T11:11:20-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002769.html Sometimes I get to go out into the real world and see what the low life has to deal with. This time it was a 1MB POTS line (Plain Old Telephone Service, AKA "Dial Tone") going to a Shell... Daily Grind Paladin 2009-12-07T11:19:07-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002767.html I take a call on my Company Cell Phone... It's a delivery company, they have my name as a contact for a delivery of a Hard Disk Drive from Hewlett Packard to the old Torrance Call Center. The one that... Daily Grind Paladin 2009-11-20T18:24:25-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002766.html Wow... almost mid-November. School is over, I'm back to real work. Have a client needs a phone, on back order. Have a Supervisor Card to plug into a dead Cisco 6509, but it's in the mail, somewhere. Have a client... Daily Grind Paladin 2009-11-09T13:10:24-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002764.html Oy Vey!! Not only is the instructor technically lacking, so were the people who wrote the course. So much misinformation. It is little wonder that there are so many problem with Tech Support when the people they are training to... Paladin 2009-10-31T11:02:29-08:00 http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/archives/002763.html Starting today I'm at a seven day DSL class. What they need seven days for I don't know. Class is 9 people, all OCS techs. All OLD Techs An average of 34 years service. Poor instructor is not a technician.... Daily Grind Paladin 2009-10-29T12:51:58-08:00