hubs ([info]hubs) wrote,
@ 2005-12-03 22:26:00
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This has been a interesting week.

This has been a strange week, Last week week I got the task of wiring new bank that was being built, Not too bad a task, we ran into the usual problem that happen when a salesman survey a job (IE, cement filled walls, vaults, things moved and not shown on the floor plans) We get the wire in the walls and in the proper places, no one got killed ( a good sign).. This week it comes time to move the system, so I gather my info, incomplete as it is, and install a few temp phones in the temp bank ( a trailer of all things) and pull everything over to the new building across the parking lot. hang the equipment, do my thing and find out that they are not going to move that day, no problem, I had figured that into my plan B, and tested everything and called it a day.. That night I get a SMS message from one of my working buddy's that the bank had been held up that evening..  Seems a hour after I left some high school kid tried to hold up the bank, took one of the employees cars, but it was a stick and the robber could not drive a manual tranny..  They caught the moron the next day.

I'll post a bit more this weekend, mostly a rant about the company  I work for and the dyslexic management style we enjoy...




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[info]manuka
2005-12-04 04:22 am UTC (link)
Heh, I had to do a job like that in DeSoto a few weeks back. This place was going from an ANCIENT AT&T Merlin and a 3270 client/mainframe setup to PCs, browser-based tellers (through Jack Henry) and Avaya VOIP. The majority of the place was built in '79, for the technology of the day (key system phones each fed by a 25-pair). The place still had mechanical adding machines and manual typewriters that appeared to have been used recently.

Naturally, the ceiling there was all spline-lock crap, or hard ceiling, with random conduits going every which way. Of course, the data rack was to be in the basement, which only covered the easternmost third of the upper floor. We had to get the cables through a 2" conduit with a 90 in it, the basement end of which was above a hard-ceilinged bathroom.

Naturally, the walkthrough was done by the owner, who didn't even bother to pop a ceiling tile or survey routes before he made a bid for an insanely small number of man-hours (about 2/3 of what ultimately was needed)

The only good thing is that the spline-lock ceiling was coming out, so we didn't have to worry too much about putting it back together.

I refuse to go back to that site.

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