26/05/2019
From a fan:
I'm currently working at a remote site that requires flying in, hotel stays, etc. It's a new-to-us building in the final stages of refitting for our use. I was supposed to set up our PBX, NVR, and support staff computers and then fly back home. Have two and a half days to do everything.
Arrived on site to discover:
Contractor hasn't hung a single camera, none of the runs were validated after being terminated, and aren't marked where they lay in the ceiling. (Of the ones I've found, nearly half are bad and need to be fixed; part of this I attribute to them trying to crimp riser cable into ends when you typically put keystone and jumpers on)
Our internet provider had their equipment removed from the existing building and it's been laying in a plastic tub on the sidewalk next to the building for three months, which is not congruent with the "we have internet from on site already" I got from the contractors.
The network rack is too shallow to fit our specified switches, so I couldn't even mount those.
No phone drops have been terminated; contractor was planning to use RJ11 plates for IP POE phones, so no wall plates even on hand for when phones are terminated.
And the sad part is this one is going smoothly compared to the last fly-in to stand-up trip I did.
