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prowire
12/5/2001
Hawkins, XMOD is right. We burn up feed thrus often just doing power supply change outs in min. time. Not a good idea
cabledad
12/5/2001
Hay Cable Recovery where is my SA gear that I paid you for,why don't you answer my phone calls and emails,
Victor
12/6/2001
Things that make you go HHHmmmmmmmmmmm 1. Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin? 2. Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed? 3. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? 4. Why don't you ever see the headline Psychic Wins Lottery? 5. Why is abbreviated such a long word? 6. Why is a boxing ring square? 7. Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin? 8. Why is it that doctors call what they do practice? 9. Why is it that rain drops but snow falls? 10. Why is it that to stop Windows 98, you have to click on Start? 11. Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? 12. Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons? 13. Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? 14. Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand? 15. Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? 16. Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? 17. Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? 18. Can fat people go skinny-dipping? 19. If you throw a cat out of the car window, does it become kitty litter? 20. If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? 21. If you take an Asian person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? 22. Is it OK to use the AM radio after noon? 23. What do chickens think we taste like? 24. What do people in China call their good plates? 25. What do you call a male ladybug? 26. What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man? 27. When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it? 28. Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes? 29. Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections? 30. Why do they call it a pair of pants, but only 1 bra? 31. Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them? 32. Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive? 33. Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? i iz hukt on fonix 34. Why are there Interstates in Hawaii? 35. Why are there flotation devices in the seats of planes instead of parachutes? 36. Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations where smoking is prohibited? 37. Have you ever imagined a world without hypothetical situations? 38. How does the guy who drives the snowplough get to work? 39. If the 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why does it have locks on the door? 40. You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff? 41. If a firefighter fights fire and a crime fighter fights crime, what does a freedom fighter fight? 42. If they squeeze olives to get olive oil, how do they get baby oil? 43. If a cow laughs, does milk come out of her nose? 44. If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens? 45. Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of a drive-up ATM? 46. Why is it that when you transport something by car it is called shipment, but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo? 47. Why don't sheep shrink when it rains? 48. What would Geronimo say if he jumped out of an airplane? 49. Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together? 50. If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? 51. If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal? Hey Doug, I emailed ya-but got no response... did you get it? Happy holidays, Victor Solesky
Victor
12/6/2001
Miss Bea, the church organist, was in her eighties and had never been married. She was much admired for her sweetness and kindness to all.The pastor came to call on her one afternoon early in the spring, and she welcomed him into her Victorian parlor. She invited him to have a seat while she prepared a little tea. As he sat facing her old pump organ, the young minister noticed a cut glass bowl sitting on top of it filled with water. In the water floated, of all things, a condom. Imagine the shock and surprise. Imagine his curiosity! Surely Miss Bea had flipped or something . . . ! When she returned with tea and cookies, they began to chat. The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better of him, and he could resist no longer. "Miss Bea," he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about this?" (pointing to the bowl). "Oh, yes," she replied, "isn't it wonderful? I was walking downtown last fall and I found this little package on the ground. The directions said to put it on the organ, keep it wet, and it would prevent disease. And you know . . . I haven't had a cold all winter."
Victor
12/6/2001
DOG EAT DOG George and Osama decided to settle the war once and for all. They sat down and decided to settle the whole dispute with one big dog fight. They agreed that they would have five years to breed the best fighting dogs in the world and whoevers dog won would be entitled to dominate the world. Osama and his dog handler Mohammed found the biggest, meanest Dobermans and Rottweilers in the world, then bred them with the biggest, meanest Siberian wolves they could find. From the litters, they selected the biggest and strongest puppy and trained it day and night to fight to the death. After five years Osama and Mohammed came up with the biggest, meanest dog the world had ever seen. It's cage needed steel bars that were five inches thick and nobody could get near it. When the day came for the dog fight, George and his dog handler Boudreaux, showed up with a nine foot long Dachshund. It was the strangest looking dog anyone had ever seen. Boudreaux said it was a Cajun Dachshund. Everyone felt sorry for George and Boudreaux because they knew there was no way that this poor excuse for a dog could possibly last 10 seconds with Osama's big, mean animal. When the cages were opened up, the Dachshund slowly came out of it's cage, wagged it's tail, then waddled over towards Osama's dog. The Doberman/Rottweiler/Wolf snarled and leaped out of it's cage, then charged the poor Dachshund. But when it got close enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's mouth and ate Osama's dog in one bite. There was nothing left at all of the snarling beast. Osama came up to George and Boudreaux shaking his head in disbelief. "We don't understand how this could have happened. We had our best people working for five years with the biggest, meanest Dobermans and Rottweilers, and the biggest, meanest Siberian wolves in the world. How did you do this?" "Da's easy", said Boudreaux, the Cajun. "We 'ad our bess plasic surgins workin' fo' five year for to make dat allimagator look like a weenie dawg."
Cliff Sanders
12/6/2001
1980 I remember managing a convienent store and meeting a class A backhoe operator. RC is the one that twistingly got me into the telecommunications industry starting with phone construction. 1982 waking up with muscles aching beyond belief from mastering equipment. 1985 entered CATV who knew! 1987 went back to POTS (plain old telephone service). 1988 unsure. 1990 aching back, aching knees, aching arms. 1993 met the best woman for me. 1996 not bad! 1997 went to hell. 1999 thought it was it, (wrong). 2001 should have figured!!!! I've had the pleasure and displeasure to work with the finest and the lowest: To the finest I salute you! To the lowest I won't miss, but I'm sure I'll experience more of you unfortunatly but a given. What a Industry we try to be professional in.
Lanny Landrum
12/7/2001
Been there,done that. After 30 years of this I must be NUTS, what a life we have chosen. At 53 years old and being laid off by my company I can't even think of doing anything else. I am a cable DAWG till death.
"Cable God"
12/8/2001
Cable sucks! Have a god weekend to all.
leadawgs
12/8/2001
Jim Venturino. I hope this is not your "one and only response" to me. As far as your accusation of "revenge", I am too much of a Christian to resort to that sort of thing. I do want to set the record straight, however. I responded to that particular posting because it was the fourth time I had heard of the same thing happening to another company, besides mine. I repeatedly asked David for copies of the "deficiencies" so that I could have some response from my mappers. David repeatedly skirted the issue and said he was compiling the information, but could never venture even an educated guess as to when he would have it (even though he always said that it was a top priority). After several months of asking and getting the run-around I decided that it was all a ruse on your company's part and that the deficiencies didn't really exist, so I stopped calling. What else was I supposed to think? This type of thing does happen. Perhaps if you had gotten on the phone when I called, instead of letting David handle it, this could have all been avoided. I want to ask you this: If my mappers work was not up to your client's standards, why didn't your manager who wa running the job, as well as doing the QC, Sean McIntyre, pick up on this when doing the QC/ QC means "Quality Control". That person or persons are supposed to find the mistakes and have the mappers correct them, before submitting the finished product to the client. You are also mistaken in stating that only one person showed up to make corrections. Adam and Jeremy both returned to Oregon, corrected whatever Sean wanted fixed, and then waited for him to OK the corrections. They fixed everything they were asked to. Due to poor management on your company's part, as well as poor QC, you were partly responsible for the problem. If you, as the owner of a company, are not going to personally be on the job site, you better have competant and qualified managers. (That's Business 101) As far as my mappers' abilities go, you are welcome to check with any MSO or Contractor that I have done work for, and they will tell you that I have some of the best mappers in the industry, bar none. I will provide examples of any of their work to anyone who asks to see it. I provide quality work and that's the reason I keep working for them. I also kept working throughout this past year when everything was so lean. That's not being smug, either; it's a fact! As far as your "Open Letter To All" I think that there were a large number of us who had a difficult time staying afloat, but survived.We all had "cash flow" problems, had to reorganize, take whatever low paying jobs were out there, and wait out the storm. Some of us survived and some did not. Your plight was no different from anyone else's. Please feel free to send me a copy of the deficiencies I asked for so many months ago, so that I can close out the issue with my mappers. If and when you do, I will post a humble (Thank You" here, so that all will know your company finally lived up to it's part of the bargain. The ball's in your court, Jim. JC
some fokkin foca!!
12/9/2001
Buisness 101 is hiring people w/ the right qualification to do the job right from the get go!The contracter subs the job out to someone who SAYS the have teh RIGHT people for the job and it ends up being a bunch of idiots thinkin they know what there doin!Im not takin up for anyone but there is so much of that goin on in this industry and it hurts the people who really do know what they are doin!EXAMPLE,strand crew,fiber crew,coax crew,an aerial crew to me is a crew who can do EVERYTHING,not a crew w/ LIMITED SKILLS!If a contracter calls me and says all i have is strand,and a fiber crew cant do strand hes FUCKED!So BUISNESS 101 is having QUALITY PEOPLE,WITHE THE RIGHT QUALIFICATIONS DO THE JOB RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!When you have to go back and redo someones fuck ups you are wasting company time,company money,when if it would have been done right the first time that crew are crews could move on to another job and keep the comp MOVING FORWARD!KEEPIN A COMP MOVIN FOWARD IS BUISNESS 101,moving backwards to fix some ones fuck ups is called dumbass hiring 101,to me thats your bad!!!JUST MY OPINION!!!!