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    1. Design Install

    Good intentions: Cabling photos

    April 30, 2021
    If you're an ICT cabling installation technician using "actual rope" as a cable rack support...you're doing it wrong.
    Pixabay / mohamed_hassan
    Mistake Mohamed Hassan

    A commonly heard (yet frequently misquoted) adage regarding humans' capacity for self-deception and fallibility goes: "Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."

    While perhaps not rising to the level of absolute "evil," the plethora of ICT cabling fail photos, as regularly seen posted to Reddit's sub-community dedicated to exposing them, often does illustrate the maxim's point -- quite handily...

    Reddit/Cablefail
    Good Int1
    "Someone probably started out with good intentions and later decided to use rope. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: u/lawrencesystems
    More from Tom Lawrence: How we do pricing and bidding for structured cabling jobs
    Reddit/Cablefail
    Good Int2
    "Found this gem today at a hospital. Thankfully I don't have to touch any of that." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP: u/Vitamin-K-42
    Reddit/Cablefail
    Good Int3
    "FML." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP: u/hildosapien
    Reddit/Cablefail
    Good Int4
    "When they start bad, end worse." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP: u/exprenix
    Reddit/Techsupportgore
    Good Int5
    "No TP just TR 😑" -- Reddit/Techsupportgore OP: u/brayshizzle
    Send your must-see cabling photos to [email protected].

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