Last minute screw-ups

This is one of those system installations where the customer has gone completely nuts. OK, to be more direct, he is very disorganised. The whole building was supposed to be ready by early January but because he kept changing plans, everything was delayed. Even the Main-Con was pissed off with him. In the beginning, he had a lot of time to plan, about more than a year.

However, being a typical Chinaman, he assumes his word is law or something. Hence, this stupid bugger does not need to plan. Then all of a sudden, he realised he only has less than a week before everyone moves in. So, the moron came to "inspect" the work and changed a lot of things many times. Many of the sub-cons lost significant finance because of him and in the end, the Main-con sort of gave up too.

And this is where we come in. The Main-con "forgot" to tell the customer that there is no phone system in the building. Ha ha ha. Hows that for revenge? In the end, our sub-con had to lay all the phone cables which meant digging up the tiles on the floor and cutting open the beautiful plaster ceiling.

And the Telekom's ppl did not turn up today to relocate the telephone lines from the old office to the new building.

Update: 20.01.2007]
The Telekoms people came and comissioned the line on Saturday, which is a Pblic Holiday. I literally told the customer (via a third party) to go to Hell since I am already busy installing another phone system elsewhere.

Mr. Budget-Concsious went for an el-cheapo Panasonic KX-TDA100

Remember those office carpets? The carpet people would have to

cover the whole floor with blue before laying the carpet tiles. But

now, they used those sticky rubber stuff instead, similar to the ones

you buy to make sure stuff on your car's dashboard does not slide off

The only thing nice in the building was this spotlight fixture. I cannot show

you the beautiful Japanese room, though, but take my word for it, its nice.