I’ve been reading this thread with much amusement, and must tell a story of my own. Many moons ago when I was Chief at WDHA, the manager decided he wanted “music on hold”, so that people could listen to the station while waiting. So, I order up the service. When the installer arrived, I showed him to the basement and told him to just leave me block where I would tie the audio in later. I went back to the AM station (WMTR) to do something else, and got a call that we had lost one channel on WDHA, and we were in mono ( ...Continue Reading

I sent letters to each member of the Board of Directors of Verizon for continuing ISDN issues we had here.  The guy in charge of repair called me in somewhat of a huff a couple of days later - while we were chatting, he started looking over the repair records then blurted out "Holy S###!!!! This is costing us real money to keep sending people out!"  Next day there were 10 Verizonites on site....all problems solved within two days.  Funny how that works. When I worked in Hartford, the phone com ...Continue Reading

In my best Rodney Dangerfield impersonation:  “Hey!  I get no respect around here!”  George Marshall - CBRE Chief Engineer - WHTZ-FM / Z100 Playout Systems Supervisor Clear Channel Radio - NYC PH  (212) 549-0610 *From:* Williamson, Bud [mailto:budwilliamson@PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, March 07, 2012 9:54 AM *To:* sbe15 *Subject:* [sbe15ny] RE: Certification George did a halfway decent job?  What about the other half? ;) Seriously, thanks to all the officers (and past officers) f ...Continue Reading

Used that once after a prolonged issue with a PRI on a T1.  Technicians and field managers showed up at the site and asked me “What the heck did you do?  You wouldn’t believe the hornets’ nest you’ve stirred up!”  Amazingly, the problem that had dragged on for a month was fixed in a matter of hours after that phone call.  And all I did was leave a message J George Marshall - CBRE Chief Engineer - WHTZ-FM / Z100 Playout Systems Supervisor Clear Channel Radio - NYC PH  (212) 549-0610 *Fr ...Continue Reading

Presidential hotline used to expedite all telco.David K. Bialik(845)634-6595On Mar 7, 2012, at 6:28 PM, "mkluger1@PROTECTED" <mkluger1@PROTECTED> wrote: Re: RE: NY NWS station off air?? True story...I swear: When I took over my current job, we did not have a list of our circuit numbers and what the far end locations were.  I knew that we had a number of circuits that we were the customer on, and a number of circuits that the party at the other end was the customer on, and I could get th ...Continue Reading

True story...I swear: When I took over my current job, we did not have a list of our circuit numbers and what the far end locations were.  I knew that we had a number of circuits that we were the customer on, and a number of circuits that the party at the other end was the customer on, and I could get the circuit numbers from the tags in the frame room, but i had no way to match up which circuit number correstponded to which far end location.  So, I decided to make a list of all of the circuit numb ...Continue Reading

I'm sorry.....that circuit doesn't exist.....On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:53 PM, <jeffsmith@PROTECTED> wrote: Maybe longer...it will take that long for VZ to find the old circuit info before a ticket can go in! :)Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry*From: * Tom Ray <tomray@PROTECTED> *Date: *Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:37:08 -0700*To: *sbe15<members@PROTECTED>*ReplyTo: * "sbe15" <members@PROTECTED> *Subject: *[sbe15ny] RE: NY NWS station off air?? OK.  So what you're saying is that it ...Continue Reading

3 months?  Clearly an overly optimistic estimate.  ;-P---------- Original Message ----------From: Tom Ray <tomray@PROTECTED>To: "sbe15" <members@PROTECTED>Subject: [sbe15ny] RE: NY NWS station off air??Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:40:06 -0700 OK.  So what you're saying is that it will be off the air at least 3 months?  :o)  Verizon.  No Progress Here Today. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:31 PM, mkluger1@PROTECTED <mkluger1@PROTECTED> wrote: I spoke with NWS st ...Continue Reading

SO everybody that likes the bubbly blond (I bet she's blond) robot that answers the phone raise their hand. The "here let me check that for you", "oh, by the way". Make me crazy. Stu On 3/7/2012 2:34 PM, Tom Ray wrote: Re: RE: NY NWS station off air?? OK.  So what you're saying is that it will be off the air at least 3 months?  :o)  Verizon.  No Progress Here Today. ...Continue Reading

Maybe longer...it will take that long for VZ to find the old circuit info before a ticket can go in! :)Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry*From: * Tom Ray <tomray@PROTECTED> *Date: *Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:37:08 -0700*To: *sbe15<members@PROTECTED>*ReplyTo: * "sbe15" <members@PROTECTED> *Subject: *[sbe15ny] RE: NY NWS station off air?? OK.  So what you're saying is that it will be off the air at least 3 months?  :o)  Verizon.  No Progress Here Today.On Wed, Mar 7, 20 ...Continue Reading