- Diagnosing intermittent connection problems
- Posted by Klunk on June 8th, 2008
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:31:27 +0100, kraftee passed an empty day by
writing:
I think you will find YOU started the personal attacks with the line
about the instructions being thrown in the back of the van. The
conclusion to that was the instructions were posted and you were wrong.
You then went on to moan that you could not flash a line with 500v but it
turns out that you don't know how to use the test equipment properly.
Clearly, if you want to make digs at people you have to put up with it
when the retaliate.
You got it wrong - get over it. I'm sorry you find that hard to handle
but that is really a personal issue for you.
- Posted by m on June 8th, 2008
kraftee wrote:
Was 6 months for just the first part of BBC Engineering training
(followed up by two more shorter theory and practical ones later).
Perhaps that explains why we learnt lots in those days!!
Mike
- Posted by m on June 8th, 2008
kraftee wrote:
Ah the joys of PO number ones and twos (still have a couple and the ends
still work) I seem to remember they could aslo be bought at car boot
sales when GPO engineers had surplus ones!
One of our engineers, on being made the saftey man, went around the test
room putting all the old Stanley knives (not the new retractible ones
but those with a little clip-on metal shield) in the waste bin as they
were 'dangerous'
Even tried to throw away the invaluable single sided razor blades for
tape editing.
Mike
- Posted by Bob Eager on June 8th, 2008
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:14:52 UTC, m <mikej@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
I bought a pair (two, actually) of Maun sidecutters (cantilever handles,
silver and black) secondhand (ex-BT) from a market stall in 1971. One
pair disappeared after about 20 years, and the others gave up the ghost
in 2005. Wonderful things.
--
Bob Eager
Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org
- Posted by kraftee on June 9th, 2008
m wrote:
Probably
In the good old days it was 6 months training to be Customer Apps &
Linesman, now 2 weeks & minimal training, normally given by 'coaches' who
are so work shy they've fogotten what the real world is like. As one said
they train the new starters to pass the questionare (not even exams) not how
to do the job..
Jointer/UG here again was another 6 months in the field learning the hard
way, from the bottom up, now it's a 2 week course.
Digital training (ISDN & the like) what training, it's just a pair of wires,
so they said...
DSL was a 1/2 week residential course, which you had to pass & once again
it's been dumbed down to a 2 day show & tell
Yes they cetainly know how not to keep the skill levels up in the field
- Posted by Peter Crosland on June 9th, 2008
Here here! Thank you so much for sharing it with me George because he is in
my kill fille and I would have missed it otherwise!
Peter Crosland
- Posted by Klunk on June 9th, 2008
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:41:33 +0100, Peter Crosland passed an empty day by
writing:
Good, that means you wont see this. Peter Crosland made himself look a
twat in uk.legal just last week. You have to take your hat off to those
who sulk when they get it so badly wrong. If he had anything (1) of
interest (2) that was correct (3) amusing to say then I may care. As he
does not tick any of those boxes then I don't give a flying moose.
