Jack’s Corner: Testing
Folks,
I understand that we all do not get a chance to test our work, although I don’t think I could sleep at night knowing that I was going to let someone else test my cables. I believe and was taught and preach that once you run your cable, connectorize/terminate it, then you test what you’ve run. Sometimes, companies/customers do not want the installer to test, and let it out to a third party – I know, I get this. But for me, preaching “Craftmanship” I couldn’t let that happen. Even if I knew that someone else was to test the cable infrastructure – I would still test (even just for continuity/wire mapping). But on some installs – this doesn’t happen. I believe this a bad practice, because a simple fix could fix a simple problem. And we all know how, with email being all over the place, how just one little old email can start the avalanche of: cables bad, must be the tech, check the connectors, who tested the run(s), who made the connectors, is he/she qualified/competent/supervised, where’s the foreman…..We all can imagine what the “higher ups” will think. That is the one big reason that after I install cables, I test them – for my own “peace of mind” & to take away the opportunity for the “BOSS” to scream at the top of their lungs at me or my crew. But that’s just me – again trying to cover my & my crews assets in all circumstances. But there are companies out there that still do not let the installers test their own work.
I was taught: “you mess-up, you fess-up, you fix-it.
..//jr//
