Re: ot- I beat the cable company.

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Author: Stephen
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Subject: Re: ot- I beat the cable company.
not bad.. i bet with a cable toner/test you would have likely been
able to get more done. I think the main difference you were willing to
really get involved, wich says quite a bit about your work ethic :-)

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:19 PM, mike havens <> wrote:
> Hey guys, I am so excited. I did a job last week in this guys penthouse.
> This guys condo was comprised of two floors with roof access and overlooking
> the Atlantic Ocean. I go in and he has one television in the corner going
> and nothing else. He tells me that two comcast technicians had been to his
> place and that each had spent 3 hours trying to get the other cable outlets
> working but to no avail. They then told him he would need  a professional to
> do it. I wound up spending 6 hours there but I left the place with three
> additional outlets activated. It was crazy; in the wall next to the
> television was a hole with four cables running out of it and upstairs was
> another hole in the wall with five cables running out of it. Unfortunately,
> none of those cables were connected to each other (break in the line?). I
> found that one of the downstairs cables ran into a downstairs guest room and
> that one of the upstairs cables ran into the family room (also upstairs). I
> also found a cable upstairs that ran over the hallway and then down to where
> he wanted his tv to be. Cool.... found lines to where they need to be; now
> how do I get the cable upstairs? Well, I went into a closet where the cable
> ran into the condo and there was a cable running into a box. The box
> apparently was for closed circuit tv from a previous resident and that cable
> ran to the upstairs master closet. I then finished up by running a cable
> from the master closet along the baseboard, over the doorway, into the water
> heater closet, through that wall  into an adjoinig closet (which housed a
> bar), behind the bar,then along the baseboards to the outlet that fed the
> bedroom and the family room tvs.
>
> Isn't that a great story? I beat comcast!
>
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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