Spanktard Award: Qwest

I have known quite a few decent Qwest techs. Heck some my friends are Qwest techs. But there must be a shit poor measure for what kind of person works for Qwest because here at work, our land lines are down.

And it is because a freaking Qwest tech was here yesterday working on another tenet’s wiring.

All of the phone lines (phones come in on a single circuit, called a T-1) and Data lines (also T-1s) come into the building in the same room down in the basement. The fiber is terminated on a small device called a smartjack, and from there copper wiring (just like normal phone wiring) is ran to a punch block that connects the respective T-1s with the appropriate floor in our tower.

But it is a spaghetti mess of copper wire. Wire is in fact holding wire in place, over looms of wire, in the most self recursive mind boondoogle of wiring you can imagine. It is like C3PO’s line about robots making robots. Madness I tell you, madness. I should go take some pictures.

You know what? I am going to. This would be funny.

But back to the story. So whenever a qwest technician performs work in our tower, one of our data or voice lines goes down. In fact it has happened so often that our default troubleshooting technique is this:

Phone/Internet/Interoffice connectivity is down.
Check logs to see what time loss occurred.
Go down to security desk on first floor and ask if any phone techs signed in today.
See what time they signed in and out
Place ticket with T-1 provider and mention that a spanktard from qwest was in the bldg.

Stupid ass monkey humping frakheads. So we have no outbound/inbound local calls right now. Because some spanktard came in yesterday and decided to yank on a few wires for the floor above us.

Yep no local calls. Long distance only.

So here’s to you, Qwest. Go flush your collective heads.

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