Field emojis: Cabling photos

July 31, 2019
Staring into a "cloud" of abject #cablefail all day, ICT techs start seeing a lot of strange things. Like faces. Smiley ones. Mocking you...

Welcome to our periodic round-up of the most infuriating structured cabling site work photos, as glimpsed on social media at Reddit's photo sub-community for 'Cablefail'.

Staring into "clouds" of abject #cablefail all day, ICT techs start seeing a lot of strange things. Like...faces. Little smiley ones. Mocking you...  

"Well, at least they used some velcro...This was an MDF at a university with a regular sheetrock ceiling. There were multiple sleeves over the racks with plenty of room for more cables. Someone was just too lazy to climb up the access hatch and properly route their sh*t so they did this garbage. That monitor stand is smirking at the situation ..." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: notbuttkrabs
"Check for a bad fuse, if not probably a loose cable, shouldn't take more than 15 min. - Service ticket. I don't remember what the issue was but I think I eventually convinced them to just pay to let us clean up the head end. Gas stations were always so much fun." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: NewEnglandAlways 

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