Yep. When I lived in Salt Lake designing the Leap Wireless (Cricket) cell network there in 2000-2001 I was contracting with Lucent. There were biweekly "team" meetings that lasted 4-5 hours each that were mostly the site aqc and construction teams talking about stuff that I didn't need my RF Team wasting their time listening to. After the second week of the that, I told my engineers they didn't need to attend anymore, and eventually I told them I could only be there for 1/2 hour each week to give a status update. Otherwise I was available by phone call or email. I can't stand projects run by committee and is probably why I haven't worked for anyone else long term since 2003. My buddy who rents an office from me is an Azure cloud solutions architect. Brilliant guy, but got placed as a team lead for AT&T's azure solutions. He spends about 6 hours a day on conference calls. I would have slit my wrists by now if I were him. I just couldn't do it.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 1:14 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > I just finished a 330,000' fiber build for one of the largest companies in > the world. > I had to suffer through weekly (or more often) conference calls with > project > managers like this. > I will never work for them again. Nobody knows anything but they mask it > by > having to take it up with their "team" and get back to you. > > For example we spent 6 weeks last summer in discussions as to how many > leading zeros on the handhole marker post labels. I voted for zero as > that > would make the significant digits down in the weeds. They went with 4 > leading zeros. > > Yep, now at normal highway speeds you cannot read them. Many of them you > have to get out of the vehicle and walk over to read the digits.... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Webster > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:42 AM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query > > Having had to deal with Google on their Fiber builds in California...... I > can attest to that. Rooms full of 30 somethings who talk to themselves and > believe their own hype. Try to tell them about any reality and they just > say, we are Google that can't stop us...... They learned that their name > was > not the magic word. Those pesky zoning, building and pole engineering > requirements didn't know who Google was......and they really didn't care > either. > > Thank you, > Brian Webster > www.wirelessmapping.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Robert > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 7:44 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query > > Truth is always the funniest! > > On 3/29/20 3:50 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: > > Now THAT is funny. > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Robert Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 > > 3:40 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT an honest query > > Or... "Why Google fails at so many new projects..." > > > > On 3/29/20 2:31 PM, Larry Smith wrote: > >> On Sun March 29 2020 14:49, can...@believewireless.net wrote: > >>> And we all know plenty of people with advanced degrees and perfect GPAs > >>> that went no where. > >> We used to call them paper tigers, loads of degrees and certifications, > >> but could not do the actual job. > >> > > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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