[GreenKeys] Fwd: RE: FAA dates

Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:47:27 -0600

>Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:40:12 -0800 (PST)
>From: Phil Schelinski <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: FAA dates
>To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
>   Jack <[email protected]>, Don Robert House <[email protected]>
>Cc: Don <[email protected]>, Frank Frisch <[email protected]>,
>   [email protected], Gil Smith <[email protected]>,
>   Warren Brader <[email protected]>,
>   Rush Glick <[email protected]>,
>   David Weil <[email protected]>,
>   George Hutchison <[email protected]>, Steve Kissinger <[email protected]>,
>   Bill Henry <[email protected]>,
>   Tom Kleinschmidt <[email protected]>,
>   Ken Clinkman <[email protected]>, Bob Cnota <[email protected]>,
>   Bob Liddy <[email protected]>, [email protected],
>   Jim Haynes <[email protected]>, Phil Schelinski <[email protected]>
>
>Ed Hickey
>
>Another great TTY story and Rybka was a great boss to have on 
>overtime because once he started telling tales you were good for 
>another hour .
>As long as you showed me yours I'll show you mine about V answer 
>back problems.
>All the Southside TTY people went to an Irish Wake and many of us 
>arrived home in time to shave and go back to work .
>the first case I picked up was a V contact problem at a trucking 
>company next to Midway Airport.
>After bending and twisting those stuntbox contacts AT&T said it was 
>ok and I left to find a coffee shop and a drug store.
>Later that night Gene Marciniak cornered me and asked what in the 
>hell I used on those contacts besides pliars !
>Apparently from all the twisting and turning they fell apart after I left!
>Then months later we found out there was a bias problem in the relay 
>and adding a new value resistor stopped most of those problems.
>
>Phil schelinski
>
>
>That reminds me of a classic story. The customer was US Customs. I was
>reporting to Dick Rybka (aka Rip, The Ripprer, etc.). It was a Friday
>evening about 4:45pm. I did not want to work overtime. I had just pulled
>into the garage at 31st and Shields and Rybka wanted me to go to US Customs.
>The problem was the machine was answering back with "letters" instead of a
>"V". I reminded him that I knew nothing about switching systems. I could
>fix the printer but I had no clue where the "V" came from. Rip told me it
>was a bad repeater at Chicago one. He explained that those people had no
>idea how to fix anything. He said go the the customer, call Chicago one and
>tell them to replace the repeater. So I got suckered into it.
>
>I went to the customer and called Long Lines. After a big argument, I
>convinced them to replace the repeater. It fixed the problem. I got out of
>there and was "off the books" by 5:30pm. I really didn't learn how to
>"milk" things until about the time I reported to Schelinski.
>
>A couple of weeks earlier, Illinois Bell introduced us to the FMP books,
>sort of a poor man's TOP. The FMP books contained a flow chart on how to
>fix things. The FMP's were going to improve production and of course,
>minimize downtime. The first block in the flow chart was "the problem is
>obvious". The last block was "call for help". We were instructed to follow
>these books to the letter.
>
>Ripper had a standing rule about checking mainshaft screws on all repair
>visits. For some reason we were having problems with screws falling out.
>
>Monday morning I walked into the garage and Rip was standing there waiting
>for me. Instead of telling how good I was to fix the case Friday night, he
>proceeded to rant and rave for about 10 minutes on how dumb I was and how I
>nearly singlehandedly put Illinois Bell, AT&T, and the US government out of
>business.
>
>When he calmed down, he told me that although I fixed the trouble I failed
>to check the mainshaft screws and the screw fell out of the codebar clutch
>and the codebars broke all of the tines off all of the function bars. This
>happened about 15 minutes after I left. Night Plant spent the night out
>there and then pulled off and left it for the Saturday guy, who spent all
>day Saturday working on it.
>
>Rip asked me what I had to say about it, so I quoted block 1 of the FMP flow
>chart that said "the problem is obvious", the next block that said "fix it"
>and the next block that said "get out of there". At no place did it say
>anything about tightening screws.
>
>Rip went to my truck and took my FMP book away and threw it in the dumpster.
>That night he collected everyone's FMP and threw them out too.
>
>Ed
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Don Robert House [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:50 AM
>To: Jack; [email protected]; [email protected]
>Cc: Phil Schelinski; Jim Haynes; [email protected]; Ed Hickey; Bob Liddy;
>Bob Cnota; Ken Clinkman; Tom Kleinschmidt; Bill Henry; Steve Kissinger;
>George Hutchison; David Weil; Rush Glick; Warren Brader; Gil Smith;
>[email protected]; Frank Frisch
>Subject: Re: FAA dates
>
>
>At 9:04 AM -0500 11/05/2003, Jack wrote:
>>When I responded to what we called an "MX" circuit (AT&T Long Lines
>>controlled it), I would call the test board as soon as I arrived and
>>clear the trouble. As long as it wasn't an open line, they had no
>>idea the machine was broken and often didn't confirm if an
>>answerback was being sent(!). That was more the customer's issue,
>>and they were always very accommodating when we were they
>>trying to get them back on line.
>>
>>Jack WA2HWJ
>>
>>NNNN
>
>"Chicago One" was never so accomodating. At least I don't see how we
>could have gotten away with your trick.
>
>Don
>
>
>Do you Yahoo!?
><http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree>Protect your identity with 
>Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard


--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML
or had an attachment.  Attachments are not allowed.  To learn how
to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html  ---