Re: Bypass Telco's NID box?

["alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jen...tel wrote:
> We don't care cause we still get paid so it makes no difference to us
> where the NID is located. To be honest, I prefer not finding it, No
> NID to work from, no need to work!!!!  I just go to the next job, tag
> out to engineering that the NID is not accessible.

Yup, that sounds about par for the phone "techs" I've seen. Why work when
you can pass the buck along, eh?

> You may have your horror stories about NetTechs but let me tell
> you, that alarm techs are by far the worst of anyone to mess with
> phone lines.  We wouldn't have to cut so many alarm off the system
> had you install it right and didn't screw the whole thing up.

No sale. In my experience, telco techs simply don't understand how line
seizure works. (And don't want to learn anything new, even if it relates to
their job.) They will leap at the chance to blame the alarm for ANY trouble
on the line, in many cases without even isolating the inside wiring from the
NID. I have been on countless service calls to repair what the telco has
"fixed", only to find the trouble is on the telco side; before the NID, with
all premises wiring disconnected. Sometimes it's just a shorted jack, or a
cheap phone. What do these chimps think the RJ31X is for anyway??

> PTT's (God bless them all we really didn't treat them right) could
> run circles around any of your wiring.  All you who make it sound
> like alarm guys know phones are yanking your own toothpick.  Look
> guys, when was the last time you heard of a phone company tech
> looking for a job with an alarm company?

Of course! Why would a telco tech want to work for an alarm company? They
would have to learn new concepts like line seizure, series circuits, fishing
wires, (no, slappy, you can't just staple em to the baseboard. No you can't
make a surface run up the side of the house.), showing up on time, and
sticking with a job until it's done. It's much easier to keep that cush
telco job.

> But we get stopped by you
> guys all the time wanting to know what's need to apply for an entry
> level job with us.

No doubt. Those that can't cut it as alarm techs need to eat too.

js