Remember those small clips that are sometimes used to splice phone cabling?

When we renovated one of our locations, we found that EVERY BL**DY cable going out of the patch board was spliced with those up in the roof. And the splice was at the same place of all of them...

On another location, we got the cable cowboys to pull a 4pair fibre cable between the server room and a comms cupboard in the other end of the building...

The first pair had a broken wire...

The second pair had the fibres swapped around...

Never bothered to test the last two...

Unfortunately, a bl**dy beancounter signed off on the contract before we in IT spotted the shoddy work...

(A few of the Cat6 points never really worked, either. )