In a large organization I can see how it could happen. Walls are thrown
up by a in-house maintance crew or an outside contractor who employes
relatively unskilled labor who are not paid to think.... just get the
job done as quickly as possible. When I was an apprentice electrician,
if any apprentice raised a question, relevant or not, you were told to
shut up and follow orders even if you knew it was a scewup. Half the
drywall people I encounter don't even speak english much less have a
clue about what cable goes where or what it's function is.
James
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>On Sat, 17 May 2003, Tothwolf wrote:
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>>I know one place I worked "lost" a Novell server for years, but it turned
>>up in the corner of someone's office when they finally found it. Yes, it
>>was running and being used. The only reason they started looking for it
>>was that they were decommissioning it...
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>Sure, this is not as uncommon as one might think.
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>But lost behind a new wall? I doubt that anyone could be THAT stupid. I
>mean, people can exhibit amazing levels of stupidity, but it would be
>incredibly naive to think that someone would take the time to cut out the
>holes and everything necessary to run the cable through, then close off
>the wall.
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