It's not that all of the following photos from Reddit's technical sub-groups devoted to commiserating over conditions of 'cablefail' and 'cablegore' come from or relate to basement sites in the information and communications technology (ICT) world (although some do).
It's just that such shoddy work, as displayed here on social media, most often will dwell in the basement of any conscientious ICT professional's regard...
"Move it to the basement," Indeed. Some commenters looked at this and saw an immediate "rip and replace" job.
As explained by Reddit original poster (OP) u/Sotaman:
It was a 28 year old install with the original wiring labels but most were reused and or dead. Took us 3 weeks to figure it all out.
It's why fully 1/3 of our title is devoted to "Maintenance."
Strange to say, but informal empirical observations of social media posts from the perspective of TV studio/truck video patch bays often seem to suggest that this IS actually "fine."
This is nearly wireless by attrition; as in, they cut corners to use the least amount of wires possible.
Wire nuts on coaxial For The Win.
Reddit commenters were split on seeing this as either an ancient archeological site, or simply a pile of paper currency to be collected after the clean-up.
Cable spaghetti in the bowels of a hospital. You read that right.
Looming like a dragon's tail...
Had to explain to Sparky that this was NOT what was meant by "electrification of the building."
(Little trade joke there - no disrespect intended.)
Twist it into funny shapes or do it the right way.
It's a shame when good intentions fall apart!
