Simon and his job

Miakal · 01-20-2005, 05:23 PM

Simon, what is the deal with your job and all the free time you get?

It sounds like you hardly do anything there. Is that true? I guess I'm curious how that all goes down and I'm sure other KYN peeps are too.

Do you basically just work as a reactionary type position? Something happens and then you react and until then you do nothing?

That's basically what I do. I work at a hotel and seriously do nothing the entire time. If someone has a complaint, if a room is having a problem (toilet is fucked, shooting water everywhere, whatever) then I have to find someone to fix it. However, most of my time is just sitting there doing nothing. I'm usually on KYN or touching myself (nipples only).

Freak · 01-20-2005, 05:42 PM

I thought Simon was a secretary?

Disco Raheem · 01-20-2005, 06:19 PM

He's an air hostess.

Danny Diamond · 01-20-2005, 07:03 PM

Haha, A secretary?

You REALLY want to know? Its quite possibly the hardest job to describe.

I work for Verizon. There are different jobs in the company. Outside guys called Service Splice Technicians and inside guys called Central Office Technicians.

Basically, we install and maintain the entire telecommunication network that flows through the city of Boston. Most of the install work is done on the day shift. Most managers are around on the day shift. Most of the WORK is on the day shift.

This is why I am on the night shift. haha. I work with one other guy. I work 4-midnight Monday through Friday. There are 14 people on the day shift in my office. My boss is literally on the other side of Boston at his office. I see him about once every 3 months and its for 10 minutes tops.

Basically in a nutshell, I have a ton of responsibilites, but with being on a job for going on 9 years next week you get very good at what you do.

I also cover the entire city on every 4th weekend. I would say I know just as much and more then 90% of my fellow workers. I find this job to be extremely easy while some people struggle through it their whole careers. Work is not a place of stress at all for me. Hence all the extra time for YOU THE PEOPLE !!!

Also, its a Union Job. $$$

Does that help things?

Below is a PERFECT example of what I do.

Danny Diamond · 01-20-2005, 07:04 PM

Central Office Tour: Where Does That Wire Go?

Photos by David Ogburn

Washington Apple Pi Journal, reprint informationWhen you fire up your modem and "dial in" to the Internet, what happens after the phone line disappears into the panel in your wall? If you are one of the fortunate who can get DSL service, you might know that DSL requires you to be within a certain number of feet of a "CO," or "central office," but what does that mean? Does a "central office" look like a YMCA gym, or the local Department of Motor Vehicles, or the bridge of the Star Ship Enterprise?

Washington Apple Pi member David Ogburn took these digital photos of the inside of a Verizon central office. While the details may differ somewhat, most telephone central offices throughout North America look much the same. To see a larger version of any photo, click on the photo.

These are the cables carrying the copper wires from your home into the cable vault below the central office and up to the distribution frame.

The wires are separated into the copper pairs that provide your telephone service and run into the back of the distribution frame.

This is the front of the distribution frame where the copper pairs are connected one-by-one to the Central Office switch. If you are patient, you might try this, an even larger, higher resolution version of this photo.

This shows an entire row of the distribution frame.

This is one row of the central office switch, a Lucent 5E. Each cabinet holds a number of cards, each containing a Motorola processor.

This bay contains the multiplexers for Litespan equipment. Litespan permits your phone service to be provided over fiber optic cable to equipment cabinets near your neighborhood that contain matching multiplexers and a crossconnect box to connect your service to the copper pair that serves your house.

This is multiplexing equipment that provides high-speed data service over fiber optic cable.

This is the multiplexing equipment for an OC 192 circuit that can carry 9.6 GB of data per second. This equipment costs approximately $250,000.

This is a fiber cross connect point where the data from the multiplexers leaves the central office on fiber trunks.

This is bank of DSL multiplexers. Each box (there are three in each of these racks) provides 48 DSL circuits. DSL must be provided end-to-end over a copper pair.

Local exchange carriers like Verizon are required to provide collocation space to permit CLECs (competitive local exchange carrier) to locate equipment in the central office. This is a row of collocated CLEC equipment.

CLECs preferring more security for their equipment can lease caged collocation space in the central office.

Danny Diamond · 01-20-2005, 07:11 PM

I have bays and bays of all that equipment. My office is roughly 10,000 square feet. All full.

I also arranged a lounge if you will. I equiped it with a wrap around couch from my buddy, another couch. A coffee table. Two 27 inch TV's with cable. (No fucking Spike TV though !!) I also have my private locker that only opens after the day shift is gone. Inside I have my 19 inch tv with XBox and PS2 hooked up. Good deal.

Plus 5 computers with T1 connections.

AudioSavior · 01-20-2005, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Simon