RE: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

[Eric Wieling <EWieling () nyigc com>]

The garbage bags have been on that pole for at least 6+ months.  

What will end up happening is what happens every time something like this happens.  We call in trouble tickets for 
months until we can get the issue labeled chronic, then we get a "Class 1 inspection", then they fix it.   One issue is 
that to get it labeled chronic there needs to be three tickets opened within a month.  VZ's temp fix often works long 
enough that we can't get enough tickets in within a month.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Herrin [mailto:bill () herrin us] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:58 AM
To: Wayne E Bouchard
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Wayne E Bouchard <web () typo org> wrote:
> > > On 08/20/2012 03:09 PM, Eric Wieling wrote:
> > > > http://rock.nyigc.net/verizon/

> To be fair, this sort of thing does happen from time to time in 
> perfectly legitimate situations. In some cases, parts need to be 
> acquired or maintenance schedules need to be arranged in order to do a 
> propper repair. So just because you see these, don't immediately think 
> it is bad techs rather than a temporary, "keep it working until you 
> can do it right."

Uh... no. Quick hacks happen from time to time to keep things running.
Layers upon layers of quick hacks that are never cleaned up (see
picture) happen through incompetence. If not on the part of the techs then on the part of the managers who rushed the 
techs onward to the next task.

Always time to do it over, never time to do it right == incompetent.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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