Posted by JRSutton on February 17, 2014 at 12:31:37 from (100.0.77.120):
In Reply to: a new kind of onery posted by ericlb on February 17, 2014 at 10:24:50:
That reminds me...
Several years ago I was working for a company which was moving it's main office to a new site.
I was the IT manager, so I had to be sure all the cables were going to be run properly in the new building. I had scheduled a meeting with the contractor to be sure the plans were being followed properly. That day came, I got the address, and headed over with one of my network guys. First time either of us were on site.
We had a little trouble finding the place by the address, but went by the description of the building the president had given me.
We stopped in and found a bunch of guys discussing the location of the main data closet.
We pulled the plans and reviewed the layout, and I found they had TOTALLY ignored what I had originally asked for. We got into all sorts of discussion on why the closet couldn't be where they were building it.
Told them to stop all work, there were very specific reasons for having it where I wanted it, it was not just for our use, but also had to be a showcase to demo some of our equipment. HAD to be attached to the conference room, etc.
Got everybody all riled up, and then calmed everything down as we decided to just move forward, it was mistake, not too late to correct it, etc. I left about four hours later after we worked it all out.
I was then off on the other side of the country for two weeks, got back. Drove back to the site with the president to check progress...
Doesn't he pull into a COMPLETELY different building about 1/4 mile down the road...
It was like the twilight zone for several minutes. I kept asking "where are we going... this isn't the building". He thought I was having a stroke or something. I thought HE was having a stroke.
This was NOT the new office building.
To my shock and horror, we finally worked out what the issue was.
On my original trip, I had gone into the WRONG office building!
I hit the one in a million chance that there were a bunch of guys there working on a data closet, which is what I was going to discuss.
Good god I can't even IMAGINE how much I screwed them up!!
Just goes to show you, if you sound like you know what you're talking about, people will trust you.
I'm SURE they moved their data closet, and probably incurred all sorts of extra change order expenses.
I never went back there to explain, I just couldn't make myself do it, I felt too foolish. Too much time had passed.
If I figured it out the next day, I would have, but not two weeks later.
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