A true e-mail

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

(x-posted)

I just received the following e-mail from our chief technical guy:

This weekend a horse died in [our] County. The farmer fired up his backhoe to dig a grave. He cut a Verizon cable and caused our DSL outage, as well as the 18 site Sprint PCS outage.

Comments

ah, the classic FSB.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Fiber-Seeking Backhoe.

[mrsvickie.livejournal.com]

ROFLMFAO

[xdownfornowx.livejournal.com]

so much for call before you dig. and shouldn't that horse be glue or in the lunches of public school children?

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

aah diggers, the bane of the It society.

Work for an ISP here in Sweden we have a link that goes

stockholm <---> Gothenburg <---> Malmo--\/
/\--------------------------------------|


I love'em! Especially when they manage to not only sever one of our backbone links to gothenburg but also the one to malmo. cutting of both our clients in gothenburg and malmo.

I love it. Nothing says love like a customer calling in the third time in 2 hours.

[terata.livejournal.com]

*laughes* I worked for Earthlink here in the states. About 6 months ago Bellsouth (a big telco) decides to do an upgrade on a server that updates the boarder routers being used on the eastern side of the country. *BLAM* Someone screws up a routing table and takes out all our customers using this DSL lines. Christ, what a fubar. With 300+ techs on the phone our queues shot to 200+ in minutes.

*sobs* I'm so glad to not be working here anymore.

Bubba with a back hoe

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

That happened to us. Our dot bomb couldn't figure out why the newly installed T1 wasn't working at our Texas office. Turns out bubba with a backhoe dug up the fiber optics.

Gawds bless the rednecks for the rest of us want to kill them at times.

[opoth.livejournal.com]

Our best fibercut story involved a farmer getting drunk, digging up the fiber on his property and taking a shotgun to it. The police were called in to disarm him. True story.

[azlbrax.livejournal.com]

Was browsing the trouble tickets of other groups one time (I work in software distro) and found this trouble ticket for the Telecommunications group.

Problem: Roosevelt Roads (one of our offices. in Cuba, I think) is isolated. No communications in or out.

Resolution: Local phone company is on strike and destroyed all of the fiber links in protest for better wages.