Wasted trip to Kuantan

Arriving here and already given the bad news, my mood was quite topsy-turvy. We were requested by the main-Con to come up as quickly as possible to install the phones. But based on what I saw, obviously, coordination and planning wasn't their forte. Our original schedule was on due to be on the 23rd and not two days before. It is not nice to rush a person all the way up to Kuantan within a day's notice and tell them everything is ready when it is not.

Then we were blamed for the cabling error when they pulled it to the wrong place. I have already stated to them on the meeting a month ago to pull it to the PABX and not to the Telekoms SDF room. But then again, the cabling job was given to them based on their "kulitfication" and they know nuts about cabling. Each trip up there costs us about RM120 and with another staff, it would be close to RM170. You'd think we have too much time on our hands and we're loaded.

The excuse?
I was not there at Kuantan last week to do a site meeting, which is just to repeat my statement to them in KL.

My excuse?
The person in charge told me he is not going and when I called the main-Con many times, I got his personal mailbox.

Moral of the story:
Sometimes, when you bit off more than you can chew, don't blame the toilet for not being accessible when you shit in your pants at the last minute.

Oh, you mean everything is ready now, is it?
How can we do this when the guys are painting
the walls and the cabling's not ready? Oh, you
mean the customer likes paint splattered
phones too? What do you mean you have not
applied for Telekom lines?


You pulled the cable to where? I told you in the
last meeting to pull it to over there, not here.

Snoopy was here. If I took this shot months
ago, it would really looked like that little bird
Now, its all grown fuzzy. My tech beside me
was wondering why I was taking photos in
the middle of the highway.....


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