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Aug. 9, 2019

IT managers sometimes need to take a 'Parent Over Shoulder' approach with their teams to ensure 'Positively Outstanding Service...'

Matt Vincent

Welcome to our periodic round-up of the most distasteful structured cabling job site photos, as glimpsed through facepalm on social media at Reddit's photo sub-community devoted to 'Cablefail'.

Evidently these days, structured cabling contractors and IT managers need to take a 'Parent Over Shoulder' approach with their teams to ensure 'Positively Outstanding Service...'

" 'Install a new switch and move over all POS stations...' " -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: ItsSwiftty024

" 'Professionally Crimped' they say." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: Gingeey

"I guess putting this sleeve in was an afterthought..." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: kebert_xela2286

"Cable stratification...70 years of cabling that's never been removed." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: IDGAFMFROFL

"Video router noodle hub. Attempts to correct it would take TV channels off air. I found out that they didn't have a very well documented router list during training. So I made one because eff that noise, I'm not about to dig through that crap last minute." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: CroquetNoodle

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About the Author

Matt Vincent | Senior Editor

Matt Vincent is a B2B technology journalist, editor and content producer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in the full range of media content production and management, as well as SEO and social media engagement best practices, for both Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine and its website CablingInstall.com. He currently provides trade show, company, executive and field technology trend coverage for the ICT structured cabling, telecommunications networking, data center, IP physical security, and professional AV vertical market segments. Email: [email protected]