Re: Check out how this comcast installer ran wiring

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 11:08:05 AM UTC-4, Bill wrote:
>> > > Had a dentist's office whose IT contractor had stapled a blue wire in
>> > > a > meandering fashion along a white ceiling. > > When he got to a
>> > > door, he just stapled down the wall and through the > open door -
>> > > which can't be closed without pinching the cable. > I hired a young
>> > > guy recently to help me remodel my house. He nailed in a vertical 2 x
>> > > 4 for a window frame which was 1 inch further to the left at the
>> > > bottom, than the top (not plumb - slanting). I pointed this out to
>> > > him and he said "What's the problem?" I said it is going to look like
>> > > hell after the drywall was up. He then proceeded to argue with me
>> > > that "Things are done this way these days, etc. Everybody does work
>> > > like that!" I said "Not in my house they don't". (I got more work
>> > > done without his "help" because I did not have to redo his work.)
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>
> Years ago I met an installer who's philosophy was: "It's OK to do a sloppy
> installation because you can fix it up later when you get called back for
> service calls."
>
> He was very smug about it too. Like he had discovered the secret to
> success.
>
> I was speechless. What could someone actually say in response to this? To
> be polite ...."Keep up the good work"?  "Gee, I'll have to try that"? Or
> ..... at the risk of having to spend hours explaining it ...... "You  DO
> know the differ between right and wrong .....  smart and stupid .... Don't
> you"?

Sounds like a tweaker.