Comments on: Where has the workmanship gone?

By: Adi

Adi — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:29:24 +0000

I sometimes wonder if the techs out there are just doing these sad excuses of jobs for the lulz..

Adi

By: Schultzter

Schultzter — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:56:00 +0000

So one day we couldn’t get a dial-tone on our home phone. Using the mobile we called Bell and they sent out a tech who took one look at the line outside our house and said “it’s 50 years old, probably original, you can see the copper where the sheath has worn away. I’ll replace it.”

Great!

Now you should know that line passes through a tree that was surely just a sapling 50 years ago.

But what did the tech do? Ran the new line right through the same tree that wore away sheath in the first place!!!

When I pointed this out his response was “the line outside your house is covered by Bell so if happens again just call us and we’ll come fix it again.”

So I cut the tree down – it seemed like the easiest way to ensure un-interrupted phone service.

By: Burg42

Burg42 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:36:14 +0000

As a former stage lighting technician, I can’t even fathom a cable installed the way your Videotron putz did it (can’t call him a tech, no sir.) Probably the worst or best case, depending on POV, of shoddy workmanship I’ve ever seen.

As much as I want our TelCom industries to thrive, this ain’t the way to go about business. Anybody who answers “that’s the way it’s done these days” should be drop-kicked on general principles.

We should put together a ‘ghetto’ wiring squad, we’d probably make good coin off it too!

By: Johnny Canuck

Johnny Canuck — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:52:34 +0000

I saw the finished work at Steve’s when I liberated him of his ~~Bell Wasp Nest~~… Bell Dish a few years back. The BlackOps Videotron guy did a really good job but I bet Steve had to be there looking over his shoulder the whole time.

According to our Source LineMan Al, they aren’t even supposed to use this indoor cabling white outside. The black cable they are meant to use has carbon in it that acts as a natural UV filter. This white shelf is not UV coated and basically has a shelf life. It’s a little bit too much cost cutting gone mad.