RE: A few GPON questions...

["Tony Wicks" <tony () wicks co nz>]

I remember working for this little company called EDS... Some bright spark decided that ATM to the desktop was the 
future (not this ethernet (or even token ring) thing) and subsequently converted several thousand head office machines 
to E3 or OC3 to the desktop. Hell of a thing trying to make OS2 drivers work for an OC3 card. That went very badly and 
the whole lot was ripped out again after a couple of years from memory.

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen
Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2018 9:59 AM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: A few GPON questions...


I've had jobs where management refused to consult with or consider suggestions from IT. I once was part of an office 
move where the modular furniture vendor started asking questions about cabling was entering and port locations blah 
blah. They were told by management they don't need to know that and IT will just figure it out later. The vendor was 
like no way, they need to be involved now or we won't proceed. Then IT was brought in at the last minute, but if the 
furniture vendor hadn't refused to proceed the plan was literally F the IT guys and make them figure it out all the 
cabling over the weekend before everyone was to move in. Management like that just gets worse until you line up another 
job and quit.