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Posted By: Gary S
Subject: Jbear
Date Posted: May-07-2008 at 1:41am
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Hey John,I didn't want to hijack that other thread but- It's been real quiet at work,but there has been some rumors.Too bad about your old boss,seems like politics always get in the way.Just 1 of many reasons I'd never take that job.One thing I have heard was the call center they set up for the new tv is not getting the volume they expected,1000 calls a day when they expected 3000.Those prem techs they hired to do the installs are being sent home with out pay because of no work.I also heard they don't want to layoff because they don't know how many are going to retire.
Back in Feburary we had a bad snow so I drove our son to the train station so I didn't have to try to get his car up the drive that night.Got to work and was told it was manditory to work 2hrs OT due to extream weather,told them I had other commitments,but would the next 2 days they needed.We all worked 2hrs the next day and the day after that they cancelled the ot! Well because I didn't work those 2 hrs I got suspended for a day.They really make you want to help them out.I have a good boss tho, he gave me this Thursday off and I'm ns Friday,Sat,Sun,and Monday! I should get the boat in for sure now  Talk to you later ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1711&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1966&yrend=1970" rel="nofollow - 69 Mustang HM SS 95 Nautique Super Sport |
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Posted By: jbear
Date Posted: May-07-2008 at 2:12am
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You know..the more I hear...both from you and my guys....I am glad to be where I am at. It just ain't our company anymore. Amazing tho how your stuff is just the same as ours in Ohio.
You work for them one night..THEY cancel the next night...then suspend you. Wow. I'd been getting alot of windshield time the next few days. My boss would've been thinking I moved into the nearest manhole. They always thought I was the slowest guy in the district anyway. But you know who they called when it was late at night or the day before a holiday or when some guy dug something up along a main road at 3:30 pm on a friday. Good luck getting the boat in...used to love them 4 day weekends. We would head right for Tennessee...only a 8 hour ride from Ohio. Someday we gotta trade phone numbers. Bet we could heat up the lines for awhile! john PemTechs ain't making but $13/hr in Ohio and are getting sent home with short weeks. Really makes a guy wanna work hard and do a good job for the company. ------------- "Loud pipes save lives" AdamT sez "I'm Canadian and a beaver lover myself"... |
Posted By: 88 Nautique
Date Posted: May-08-2008 at 2:05pm
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Gary & John,
Out here they hired a bunch of "term" splicers. The term is for two years. They were hired to condition copper pairs for this U-Verse service. I'm sure they will pick up a lot of them permanently when we have the mass exodus before the contract is up. We may loose 6 people out of 9 in our central office crew alone. Kurt ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1657" rel="nofollow - My 88 Nautique |
Posted By: jbear
Date Posted: May-09-2008 at 12:25am
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Kurt: Same in Ohio...lotsa guys conditioning pairs for the u-verse. plenty of talk that loads of guys will go just before the contract in Ohio as well. Ranks are getting pretty thin tho. Not to many guys left that shoot cable the way we did or the waty i bet Gary does. Instead of going after whole counts of cable that are in trouble or maybe marginal as usual they are trying to do it the quick way...just shotgun a pair when they need it for an order. Reasoning is "why take the time to fix all them pairs when we might only need a few" Just another reason why the plant is in such bad shape.
Wonder what happened to Gary on this thread...he started it and then he ain't been back. I bet you told me before and I forgot but...how much time you got Kurt? Always been inside? john ------------- "Loud pipes save lives" AdamT sez "I'm Canadian and a beaver lover myself"... |
Posted By: Gary S
Date Posted: May-09-2008 at 11:18am
I've been getting the boat ready and reflecting on why I had the day off 
I'm also getting ready for the boy's college graduation this Saturday,so we've been busy. Spent all day Wednesday chasing those guy's around,they didn't get much training and are under so much pressure to hurry that they make many little mistakes that end up leaving customers out of service. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1711&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1966&yrend=1970" rel="nofollow - 69 Mustang HM SS 95 Nautique Super Sport |
Posted By: 88 Nautique
Date Posted: May-09-2008 at 3:24pm
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28 years. 23 of that as a inst/repair tech.
I know what you mean. Seems they would rather go to a splice 20 times to fix one pr rather than fix the whole splice on one trip. That would have been unheard of when I started with the company. People would have been suspended. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1657" rel="nofollow - My 88 Nautique |
Posted By: jbear
Date Posted: May-10-2008 at 1:50am
Same here...plus the fact that you just wanted to try and do it right the first time. Congrats on the graduation Gary. Bet you'll be glad to see those costs quit. As to your reflection as to why you were off...come up with any answers? Getting pretty close to 30 Kurt....any thoughts of hanging it up? john ------------- "Loud pipes save lives" AdamT sez "I'm Canadian and a beaver lover myself"... |
88 Nautique wrote:Posted By: 88 Nautique
Date Posted: May-12-2008 at 3:24am
Nah, I'm only 50. Got a few years still. Kurt ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1657" rel="nofollow - My 88 Nautique |
Posted By: Gary S
Date Posted: May-19-2008 at 2:55am
Sorry I haven't been paying attention,but thanks John. This last semester was easy anyway since he's been here at home doing an internship at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He's the reason I was off- it was snowing bad that morning so I took him to the train station so we didn't have to deal with getting his car back up our steep drive- and you know the rest. Until sbc rode into town, I don't remember anyone who got suspended. Now we are treated like 2 year olds. On a positive note, I have got my trailer apart,the extra holes that were drilled into it welded up and I'll call Monday to get it in to be sandblasted, so I can paint it since I'm off the week of the Memorial holiday- I have to get that extra day remember ? ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1711&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1966&yrend=1970" rel="nofollow - 69 Mustang HM SS 95 Nautique Super Sport |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: May-19-2008 at 9:29am
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Ok guys, fill me in on "conditioning pairs". Removing resistance from bad corroded connections?? ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
Posted By: Gary S
Date Posted: May-20-2008 at 1:23am
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Long story Pete but it does not involve making bad or marginal pairs good.What they do is dedicate 1 pair per living unit. For example say you live at the end of a cable run. You leave the main phone box called an xbox or sac on pair 1. Now maybe that pair is spliced into every other terminal in that run on binding post 1 also. What they are doing is cutting it out of those bp's in every terminal it appears except yours. That 1 foot of wire that is connected from the cable to the bp can affect the video signal.If you are for say in the middle of the run,that pair will stop at your terminal.The piece going further down the street will echo the signal back if left connected.The other thing that is done at the same time is the cable bonding,each cable has to have it's own seperate bond,no daisey chains. Rumor has it that the signal will not pass thru if a bond is missing or loose. When locating cables you sometimes have to remove the bonds to locate it. So I asked if it's removed to locate will everyone past the missing bond loose the TV? No one could tell me,but it stands to reason people will be making trouble calls and by the time the repairman is out,the locator will have put everything back together and the trouble will be gone. There is more to it than this Pete,but this is the general idea. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1711&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1966&yrend=1970" rel="nofollow - 69 Mustang HM SS 95 Nautique Super Sport |
Posted By: jbear
Date Posted: May-20-2008 at 2:12am
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Very good explaination. Only thing I could add is.....here in Ohio we spent alot of time removing "bridge tap' or side leg splices. Cable pair will run (or carry) signal better if it is a straight run...no side legs running off the main cable run (direction)...also spent alot of time shortening the lenght (footage) of the cable runs. Signal will only run a certain distance so we had to cut down the lenght of alot of our runs. Also...removed alot of load pots (a device that would help dialtone run further on a piece of cable)......data or tv signal would not pass thru these loads so you would have to open the cable and remove just the line you wanted to run your signal. Gee I miss some of this. Not the being treated like a kid by people that couldn't even carry my tools.
Big problem in Northeastern Ohio Gary...locate guys would remove the bonds and then "forget" to put them back on. Really hurt the signal on those loooong rural runs. john ------------- "Loud pipes save lives" AdamT sez "I'm Canadian and a beaver lover myself"... |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: May-20-2008 at 10:54am
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Gary and John, Thanks for the explaination. I've got the idea now. It's sort of like removing all the branches off a tree trunk - Then there's only one direction to go without those branches!!
I can appreciate the shortening of runs too. When my phone at home was still on a copper pair, I had the repair in one day when it went down. He spent the better part of a day tracing the problem all over the neighborhood. Over the many years, the routing of that line had been changed many times to the point that it no longer was the shortest distance between two points! ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
Posted By: adamt
Date Posted: May-23-2008 at 12:39am
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Jbear, I'm still working on getting off work for Monday, no luck so far  Going to keep on working on it Sat & Sun. You and Eddie the Barefoot Machine are coming to Orlando, correct? Are you bringing the '80? Anything back from Azeus17 about coming down from Jax? I'll give you a call if I'm able to find a replacement at work. Keep me in your prayers!!! ------------- -Adam 1973 Skier |
Posted By: jbear
Date Posted: May-23-2008 at 1:46am
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Me and Patti and the '80 are coming over. Eddie has decided to go in a different direction. He had never really commited, said it sounded like fun but decided on something else. I guess I jumped the gun saying he was coming 'cause I was hoping so much that he would. Azeus17 has company so if he comes it'll be a last minute type of thing, We are hoping you and Tamy can come...been to long since we seen you guys. If something breaks for you...call me.
john ------------- "Loud pipes save lives" AdamT sez "I'm Canadian and a beaver lover myself"... |