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DSL Installation Fail
An anonymous reader writes "Here's an example of fine Qwest workmanship. In our business park, they just installed a DSL connection for our neighbors, for which we share an exterior utility space. They left: a DSL modem stuffed in a cardboard box, wrapped in a Wal-Mart bag, sitting outside in what will be below-zero (F) temps, on top of a bank of ten natural gas meters in some of the driest air of the year. They also left it plugged into an exposed exterior power outlet above a snowbank, with network cables running around the building, through snowbanks, coupled and protected by zip-lock baggies, and into our neighbors office. Not to mention the hack-job of patching the phone cable directly into the demarcation box. And if you're wondering — I was told upon calling them that this is not their problem, and I need to contact my primary phone service provider."
Looks like Qwest thought they had this job *sunglasses* in the bag.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
I often call to complain that my neighbor's DSL isn't set up correctly...oh, wait.
Calls to have their DSL installed in the middle of a snowy winter?
ASSHOLES CUSTOMERS, that's who. /blame game.
...they forgot the duct tape! How do they expect it to stay up on those gas containers in strong winter winds?!
"I hope you know how very lucky you are to know me, because I am so incredibly incredible."
Well at least if you lock yourself out of the office you have open ports at the gas meter to hook up to.
I Need someone to rebuild a Digitech Digital Delay pedal for me....for me...for me...for me.
I once hired a "network technician" to install Ethernet (coax... it was a long time ago) in a doctors office. He said he was "experienced". I got a complaint from the office after he left. They had an empty office between the router and a workstation. This fool punched a hole in the middle of the wall on each side of the room and ran the wire at about neck height across the middle of the room.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Put on gloves and unplug one of the cables. Wait for them to send some one out to "repair it". Call the police and report that a suspicious person is attaching a package with wires to the gas lines.
Hell, Slashdot editors don't screen summaries!
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
I take it this wasn't in Boston, or they'd have shut the entire city down, given that it has wires coming out of it. If there was a Mooninite on it, they'd probably hunker down for an invasion....
I had the same work done last week and it cam e out great.
Except for the spurious spaces it inserts into your posts once in a while. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Like, *you* personally *are* a local company? I guess this was inevitable since the Supreme Court ruled on corporate personhood.
Customer: your!tech!is!banging!my!wife!in!my!bed!
Support: Sir?
Customer: !!!!!!!
Support: Sir, he's a professional. So please just relax, and let him finish his installation.
Kid-proof tablet..