17 May
2003
17 May
'03
12:02 p.m.
In a large organization I can see how it could happen. Walls are thrown
up by a in-house maintance crew or an outside contractor who employes
relatively unskilled labor who are not paid to think.... just get the
job done as quickly as possible. When I was an apprentice electrician,
if any apprentice raised a question, relevant or not, you were told to
shut up and follow orders even if you knew it was a scewup. Half the
drywall people I encounter don't even speak english much less have a
clue about what cable goes where or what it's function is.
James
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Sat, 17 May 2003, Tothwolf wrote:
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http://webpages.charter.net/jrice54/classiccomp2.html
I know one place I worked "lost" a
Novell server for years, but it turned
up in the corner of someone's office when they finally found it. Yes, it
was running and being used. The only reason they started looking for it
was that they were decommissioning it...
Sure, this is not as uncommon as one might think.
But lost behind a new wall? I doubt that anyone could be THAT stupid. I
mean, people can exhibit amazing levels of stupidity, but it would be
incredibly naive to think that someone would take the time to cut out the
holes and everything necessary to run the cable through, then close off
the wall.