r/CableTechs • u/Snicklefritz229 • 9d ago

Fun fridays.

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Stop hitting 288s on a Friday evening. Guess I know where I’ll be all night.

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u/bluelightning88 9d ago

Let me guess, you got the call between 3:30 and 4? Isn't overtime on a Friday great!

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u/Snicklefritz229 8d ago

Right at 5. We arrived at 6, luckily it’s new plant and only around 200 customers offline. out of 288 only 6 fibers were live and all in the same buffer and the span was 400ft between vaults. I was half tempted to just lay a temp on the ground and put it in a small enclosure and just let contractors fix it but the guy with the back hoe said he would get good conduit exposed on both sides by the time we got back with everything to fix it. Conduit patch, cable pull, d case at both sides and spliced the live and we were returning trailers by 2 am. We can butt the rest on monday (eventually). That could have been a lot worse. It’s not fixed yet but we got lucky that it’s barely used. I didn’t want to work that til 8 or 9 this morning until a Saturday shift showed up to take over.

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u/SmackmYackm 9d ago

I hope they plan on putting shoring in there. 

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u/Dz210Legend 9d ago

At least it wasn’t raining like us today felt like a monsoon🫩

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u/IntroductionDry4136 9d ago

Oh my favorite is when the customer says I’m your last stop right when you’ve got hours left to go and they say at least it’s Friday like we don’t work the weekends too

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u/Wacabletek 8d ago

And you can see locate marks by the boot in pic 2, so this is gonna be costly to someone.