[BC] horns

[Robert Meuser]

bell was correct. If you support piling on the heap, fine. On the other side 
Bell did a fantastic job. Bell at that time was a perfect example as to how to 
run a company. They have the accomplishments to prove the point.  It was liberal 
activist judges that created their undoing.

R

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 05/29/2005 3:27:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> Robertm at broadcast.net writes:
> 
> 
>>WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> > Don Kimberlin could tell you some incredible War Stories about some of 
> 
> the 
> 
>> > absolute absurdities that went on behind the scenes at Ma Bell. Stuff 
> 
> that 
> 
>>will 
>> > curl your toes.
>> > 
>> > Willie...
>> 
>> 
>> so tell us why and support your opinion.
> 
> 
> I wish Don was on these lists! ;)
> 
> He told a story some years ago about a generator in some small, somewhat 
> remote switching station (I forget the details) that failed because a $3 capacitor 
> in it's electronic governor failed. He went down to investigate, while Ma 
> Bell went into high alert mode.
> 
> Ma Bell ended up sending a 150Kw genset there, having it scream away under no 
> load, while another set was enroute from hundreds of miles away... and having 
> a multi-person conference call with high-level engineers "just in case"... 
> and ended up costing something like $3 million. Meanwhile, he made a trip to a 
> local electronics store and bought the required part to repair the existing 
> genset. He then installed it... but they didn't want him to test it, they had 
> their "big shots" on the way... well, he "accidentally" bumped the main kill 
> switch, and the now repaired genset sprang to life, functioning perfectly.
> 
> The bigwhigs on the phone debated briefly what to do next, and still insisted 
> that the 150Kw(?) unit keep screaming away unloaded, and the other one stay 
> on the road, enroute to the site.
> 
> It's been a long time, so I forget many details of the story... but this 
> about covers the basics. A $3 part ended up, in the end, costing $3 million... 
> because they had to follow those outlandish, inefficient, and ineffective 
> "proceedures"... kinda like the nonsense of the detailed operating instructions for 
> the proper use and feeding of pushbrooms. <:P
> 
> Oh, and he also told of the brand new parts that would arrive every year, for 
> replacement of the existing ones... being sent to storage... YEAR AFTER YEAR, 
> while the old parts stayed in service. The shipments kept coming, 
> year-after-year, because it was "PROCEEDURE". Those new, unopened boxes went into 
> storage... Rather than change proceedure, this went on year after year... to the 
> point that they either  had to build bigger warehouses to hold it all, or start 
> throwing it into the dumpster. BRAND NEW, UNUSED parts... going to the dumpster, 
> because there was no more room to store them!!!
> 
> Such incomprehensible waste!
> 
> Willie...
> 
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