@wendelgee01 Well, i didn't go through all 7+ pages of comments. I work for a major telecommunications company and have to deal with complaints all the time regarding the techs work and how it was done. 99 out of 100 it's because that's what he had to do. Like the the LoP from the landlord mentioned previously, we have to deal with that at my company, too. I only gathered you left the place from the other comments, but seeing that your wife was still there and the job still got done....
@lostinsidemyse1f But I wasn't complaining to you or about the cable company. It is simply a frickin' funny install. If you can't see that then you are taking your job way to seriously. Just laugh at it and move on with your life.
@wendelgee01 Well, my department investigates poor installs, rude techs, etc, and tries to fix that. I do take my job seriously. If there's a problem, then it needs to be corrected. With a title like "Cable Installer taking things too literally" it seems like a complaint. I was trying to look out for your best interest and fix the issue, but I guess there isn't one.
@lostinsidemyse1f So instead of throwing me a line like "This is why you shouldn't leave when someone's at your place to install something!!" in a rather rude tone, why don't you present yourself from the beginning as a rep for the cable company trying to help? That I would respect, but your method is just all spin.
Well-- You know-- very long cable runs cause a great amount of signal loss... Why couldn't he just ran it along the ceiling area instead of going up and down along door ways? far less cable and clips, but I guess that would been too easy. also the jack sticking out of the wall was a bit tacky in the beginning. What was with the drip loop between doors? I don't think it was going to rain in there...
@ucws You are absolutely right. I worked for TWC as a contractor in Cinci, and we didn't touch those upstairs rooms in apartments. We hooked up the tv closest to the outlet between the doors and/or hallways. That was the extent.
@chrismcb74 Have to Agree, The Comcast Contractor installed a New Drop from the Pole to the House, New Line in the House and Made the Internet Work Correctly in About an Hour.
When Wanted to Add the TV the 'COMCAST' Direct People Spent 3 Hours Installing the 7 Foot Drop for the TV, and I Had to Call Service the Next Day as Box Never Downloaded, the In-House Idiots (Forgot to Mention there were 3 of them Doing the Drop Install) Never Removed the SIgnal Trap at the Pole
as a cable installer myself, I'd just like to say that there is no way in hell I'd do that... I'd ask the home owner or renter if they would mind if I drilled a hole through the floor... small, in the corner, white cable drop, wouldn't even notice it much...
wow the shit in the usa they make it soo complicated with tv inernet and phone all the same crap expensive and crap like that ...damn good thing i moved from there
If you dont like the flames, make the video private. If you dont like the work, do it yourself. Did that installer do a great job ? No. However when you installed cable before in apartments and have legal restrictions on what you can and can't do, then you will realize whats going on here. I won't resort to childish name calling. What goes around comes around.
COMCAST cable sent some contractors to my house to add some cable lines upstairs at my house, they were in the process of doing the same type of shit to my house but i stopped them and showed them how to do there job correctly and it turns out what i showed them was easier than the bullshit they were going to do. This stuff happens. Luckily the could understand enough english to understand what i explained to them.
Im a contractor , yes that can very well be a contractor dont take me wrong i love my job as a contractor i work very hard and take pride in it.Im 35 now been doing this since i was 18 started as a phone tech and now loving every moment of it as cable tv tech. Inhouse dislike us period coz of this type of installs i dont blame em for that. It boils dwn to the work load that gets dumped into our pool thats just wrong. No wonder the newbies get overwhelmed keeping up the pace. Mistake after mista
Cable companies use contractors to do install work, The guy who did this was probably on his first week, and had answered a classified or Craigslist ad. The employer saw a warm body and a truck with a ladder rack and said here's a work order buddy, don't screw it up.
You have recourse from the cable company, and I assume you have already taken that route. Funny video, well done with the "Flight of the Bumblebee"
nope this was a cable guy job...i can tell he really cared towards the end cause the line was reeeelllll tight around corners lol. that guy didnt know wat he was doing cause the goddamn line was so long.
i hope that you called to have a supervisor come out and review the work and had them have someone competent come out and redo the run...
this is the type of work that you get when the cable companies hire sub-contractors who are paid per job... a cable company employee who is paid per hour would not be as likely to do such sh!t work (not that it isn't possible, just less likely...
As a cable tech sometimes there is no other option I don't know the lay out of your apartment but where I work we are not allowed to attach cable to the outside of an apartment with out a written letter from the apartment complex. As for a wall fish if it was possible to be done he should of offered that to you but it dose cost extra.
I'm a cable tech and I believe this video. Techs do some retarded things and that's why you never leave them alone in your house. That should be common sense anyways for anyone you don't know that's in your house but I have to fix wiring like that on a weekly basis.
@pro151a Nope. Local Cable company. Swear to god. But no way to prove it I guess. I really didn't think this would turn into an argument over whether it is real or not. I guess everyone has to throw their opinion out there. I just thought it was amazing that it happened.
Too all the "cable company" groupies here, you are all hacks ans and scumbags. Fuck bags with not consciene or clues. Now that being said, why would you cable company guys defen the entire industry? That just seems short sided, defend your own work, but you just have no idea about the rest, the sub contractor installers whatever.
Even if this guy is lying, this kind of work still seem typical of cable company losers.
dude i have had the same thing done to me!!!! sept i was doing yard work wile wife was inside with kids guy comes out and says im finished and i do a walk threw before he leaves and shit ran down bace boards and over door jams and stuff!!! i was pissed made him stay there called an had another guy come out right away and fix it all got free installation and cable for a month what was funny cable ran infront of door and guy said use a rug to cover it...what a trip
I work in the phone industry, I was repairing phone wire in the basement of an elderly womans house, and she forgot I was there and left. I heard her drive down her driveway and leave. I had to call her cell to make sure she had her house keys. I've personally seen cable companies, or most of the time, contractors for cable companies do some crazy things, like running the wire over the entranceway to the living room, then telling the customer to cover it with a throw rug
Ya get what ya pay for.....Years and years of lowering rates so all the good installers moved on and now the industry is full of miscreant goat herders fresh off the boat from some 3rd world country.
Well, they got their cable...but seriously, not the worst I've seen. I have a hole in my closet so I can run cable to my office from a splitter in the living room wall. We can all guess what the landlord will have to say about that.
do you want things done,or do you want things done right?this install looks like it wasnt on his work order to wire 2nd floor,so did it for free.with a 10 dlr bill you would both satisfied.
This is a condo or a apartment the carpet fish of the wire could have been better. If this was a house then it would have been wall fished. My take is this is a old building and was not pre wired for cable and if that went to your modem well good luck.
Sorry, it wasn't. It was a cable installer for a major cable company. I have no desire to make the cable industry look bad. In fact, I admire this company who employs 100s of people in my community. I think this was an installer who was new to the job and just did as he was asked without using his head.
"Clearly done by a home owner trying to make the cable industry look bad."
@60dwalker You obviously haven't met the same cable installers most people have met. They would actually do this, not to mention show no clue how any of their equipment works. That's the norm.
homeowner making the industry look bad? The technician is clearly a complete mental fucking retard or its a skate job he's doing while he's smoking pot and looking for other employment such that he just doesn't give a shit. If thats how you would have wired that, you should slap yourself in the cock with a brick.
Yeah, no way. I have been doing QC's for several years and Every time a new contract company comes in this happens. They don't know what a wall fish is or how to wrap the house. It's actually pathetic but BIG CABLE has no rules on training when it comes to contractors. They just give them a truck, meter, ladder and a few STB's a modems and send them to the field. Glad I work for a FTTH company now.
Yeah, no way. I have been doing QC's for several years and Every time a new contract company comes in this happens. They don't know what a wall fish is or how to wrap the house. It's actually pathetic but BIG CABLE has no rules on training when it comes to contractors. They just give them a truck, meter, ladder and a few STB's a modems and send them to the field. Glad I work for a FTTH company now.
I would have used the return airvents but didn't see any in your house. If the cable line feed comes in your living room, there's no other way to do it than what he did. I would have explained it better to you of what a shit show it would look like, and if you said proceed, I would have done the exact same thing but with white cable instead. For this job tho, and the amount of work it took him, it wouldn't be worth my time. I would have told you to hire an electrician.
hey atleast he nailed it down around the moldings and not just laid it across the floor or fish it under the rug...lol ok well the staircase was tacky.....lmao but funny over all. I was a cable tech and you would be suprised how cable was ran to get to a room.....lol funny video music reminds me of tom chasing jerry....lmao
I would have told you, "it's an apartment, if you don't have a landlord letter, you get no new outlets. it's not your property. you can't just decide to put lines wherever you want."
That is prettty bad, I am a DirecTV installer for DirecTV adn have installed many appartments and never had to do anything like that. I installed a 17 story industrial tower and still did not have to do anything crazy like that.
Okay Okay, I've been hiding one fact to protect a loved one. I left the house, but my wife was still there. She watched the whole installation and didn't say a word.
Later she said, "I thought it looked funny, but if that's what you wanted..."
@wendelgee01 ...That's a pretty big fact to leave out. I've had customers request this very procedure when their only other option was to have the cable wrapped outside the house. I tell them that it will "look ridiculous" before I start though.
If you dont want cable ran that way buy a house. theres only so much we can do in apartments be lucky he did it. I would have down that job and laughed once I got that rescheduled be lucky he did it.
Yeah, it's an APARTMENT! I would like to hear from the homeowner what his suggested route for the cable would have been. Oh yeah, and the installer can't drill any holes or cross any high-traffic areas without a letter from the landlord. . . c'mon homeowner, let's hear it!
if i'm on an install and you leave, i will be leaving too. the guy was a cowboy with this install but the policy is no drilling in apartments so be thankful he ran that wire because i guarantee it took longer than he wanted to be there. i would have told you to get a router.
Most MDU's have a contract with the cable company that they will NOT add outlets ( if it needs done the apartment maintenance team adds them) He couldn't drill but still wanted you to have your outlet. A little strange way of going around it but at least it was done..... The apartment complex maintenance team can add a proper one
I work for comcast and we are not allowed to be in a customers house alone, there has to be someone over 18 there at all times during the techs visit. If you couldn't stay there with the tech you shouldn't have reschedualed your apointment.
guy wanted to waste as much time as possible, you gave him an hour's worth of pretending to have stupid, unanswered questions. i wouldnt leave him alone, I once caught a plumber searching my apartment for drugs when I left my camera on (he didn't take a stack of cash from the drawer he opened, too obvious, reportable) hidden in a speaker I hollowed out. I think I'll post it on youtube!!! why did I never think of that. he's such a loser. got fired a week before last christmas, hahahaha
2funny...dam i have been in cable for awhile...it comes down to poor training...thats if he did it,,,ALSO ANY CABLE DAWGS ON HERE SEND ME A REQUEST..I LIKE CHILLIN WITH MY OWN KIND LATA ALL...RUFF
Shoulda had the lines built in before the place was completely built. The tech should have not ran the line. First response ."no" and then "call for approval by your landlord" and then the install fee for the extended line.
Its not Us (comcast) who are trying to be jerks about it. It's just that your landlord didn't consider the luxury of an extra line in the second floor. We charge only because:
time it takes to do the the job Correctly . obviously, the tech did this xtra work for free
It wasn't a contractor, it was our cable service's in-house installer. They sent him out and I asked him if he could extend the cable to the 2nd floor. He was dumb for saying "yes" and doing it the way he did it. I was dumb for leaving and assuming everything was kosher.
Why does everything have to be an argument these days? Just laugh at a dumb thing and quit getting so defensive.
Dang most houses these days come with cable in every room well what it is is a cable(coaxial) that leads to the cable box on the side of the house so I guess you live in a older place since my house turns 1 year old Nov 15 2009
No, I have done fresh installations on new houses and the builders are two cheap to put a cable and telephone jack in each room. I have to tell the cutomer that I have to run cable and cat5e and they get mad like it my fault.
not all new houses are built as such. 3 hammer construction in northern IL comes to mind. they have a tendency to have an outlet in the master BR and living room only, even in a 4 bedroom house.
I love all the in house guys that say "Must be a contractor" all the crappy work I have ever seen was done be in house techs. Most contractors have 2 QC guys following behind them..one from their company, and one from the cable company...Most in house guys don't even get their work checked up on.
I am a contractor, and i would have to say I would not do this...I would have told the customer to get a letter of permission from the landlord.
ummm...you might be one of the few contractors who dont do this...but most of the contractors are horrible..."piece work pay" if i wanted to make a bunch of money do as many jobs in a day as i can...any problems let the inhouse guys go clean it up...i would say 30% of the contractors are good...the other 70 are horrible.
@chrismcb74 Have to Agree, The Comcast Contractor installed a New Drop from the Pole to the House, New Line in the House and Made the Internet Work Correctly in About an Hour.
When Wanted to Add the TV the 'COMCAST' Direct People Spent 3 Hours Installing the 7 Foot Drop for the TV, and I Had to Call Service the Next Day as Box Never Downloaded, the In-House Idiots (Forgot to Mention there were 3 of them Doing the Drop Install) Never Removed the SIgnal Trap at the Pole
lol................
prsguitars42 1 month ago in playlist internet stuff
Technicians vs hacks, electrician-type butchers...you pay for this and THEY give you that!!
prsguitars42 1 month ago in playlist internet stuff
This is why you shouldn't leave when someone's at your place to install something!!
lostinsidemyse1f 1 month ago
@lostinsidemyse1f My wife was there. This has already been discussed in other comments. Quit yelling at me and lighten up.
wendelgee01 1 month ago
@wendelgee01 Well, i didn't go through all 7+ pages of comments. I work for a major telecommunications company and have to deal with complaints all the time regarding the techs work and how it was done. 99 out of 100 it's because that's what he had to do. Like the the LoP from the landlord mentioned previously, we have to deal with that at my company, too. I only gathered you left the place from the other comments, but seeing that your wife was still there and the job still got done....
lostinsidemyse1f 1 month ago
@lostinsidemyse1f But I wasn't complaining to you or about the cable company. It is simply a frickin' funny install. If you can't see that then you are taking your job way to seriously. Just laugh at it and move on with your life.
wendelgee01 1 month ago
@wendelgee01 Well, my department investigates poor installs, rude techs, etc, and tries to fix that. I do take my job seriously. If there's a problem, then it needs to be corrected. With a title like "Cable Installer taking things too literally" it seems like a complaint. I was trying to look out for your best interest and fix the issue, but I guess there isn't one.
lostinsidemyse1f 1 month ago
@lostinsidemyse1f So instead of throwing me a line like "This is why you shouldn't leave when someone's at your place to install something!!" in a rather rude tone, why don't you present yourself from the beginning as a rep for the cable company trying to help? That I would respect, but your method is just all spin.
wendelgee01 1 month ago
Well-- You know-- very long cable runs cause a great amount of signal loss... Why couldn't he just ran it along the ceiling area instead of going up and down along door ways? far less cable and clips, but I guess that would been too easy. also the jack sticking out of the wall was a bit tacky in the beginning. What was with the drip loop between doors? I don't think it was going to rain in there...
lostcub 2 months ago
I like how he ran it over the cat
JJHiggs1 3 months ago
@JJHiggs1 Where was the cat?
RockSpector 2 months ago
Wow! You left him alone in your apartment? I couldn't do that.
imatool2 3 months ago
Hey fuckstick, he did exactly what you asked.
HorseheadNebula85 4 months ago
are you sure he wasnt in your wife then you got home then they quickly cable clip it?
dreboy111 4 months ago 2
@dreboy111 Hey, if it means free cable...
wendelgee01 1 month ago
If the installer ran all that wiring inside of an hour, I am damn impressed.
fred1671 4 months ago 3
@fred1671 It was kind of a Anchorman feeling I had. "I'm not mad at you, I'm really impressed."
wendelgee01 1 month ago
wow, if i did that shit id either get my ass chewed out or canned.
silentfilmstar 5 months ago
Your in apt, he did it right. TWC will need Letter of permission from your landlord to run a line to the side of your house and send it up stairs.
Even doing that would get that installer in trouble, lucky you for even getting that done!!
ucws 5 months ago 6
@ucws You are absolutely right. I worked for TWC as a contractor in Cinci, and we didn't touch those upstairs rooms in apartments. We hooked up the tv closest to the outlet between the doors and/or hallways. That was the extent.
mcelfreshiii 5 months ago
@ucws aint that the truth i would of left them cable and tacks and told him to run it and see how they run it
srt8rider 4 months ago
Wow,I'm tired from that journey!!!!!
Cole1970 5 months ago
Guy did that in an hour? Damn!
quantumguy39 6 months ago
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@chrismcb74 Have to Agree, The Comcast Contractor installed a New Drop from the Pole to the House, New Line in the House and Made the Internet Work Correctly in About an Hour.
When Wanted to Add the TV the 'COMCAST' Direct People Spent 3 Hours Installing the 7 Foot Drop for the TV, and I Had to Call Service the Next Day as Box Never Downloaded, the In-House Idiots (Forgot to Mention there were 3 of them Doing the Drop Install) Never Removed the SIgnal Trap at the Pole
erskr1 6 months ago
haha wooow wrap an tack usa
LowBeat1k 6 months ago
@matt9c1 you hit the nail in the head. your wife was in the apartment the entire time. so the installer did a quickly.
HALIHALAO 7 months ago
You're lucky to have even that. Military housing says it looks "tacky". No TV upstairs for us!
imnotcrazy7777 7 months ago
as a cable installer myself, I'd just like to say that there is no way in hell I'd do that... I'd ask the home owner or renter if they would mind if I drilled a hole through the floor... small, in the corner, white cable drop, wouldn't even notice it much...
noturfriend421 7 months ago
why didnt he run the wire outside if you had permission from the installer? ..... unless it was physically impossible that is
gangaskan2255 7 months ago
@gangaskan2255 err, landlord i meant
gangaskan2255 7 months ago
wow the shit in the usa they make it soo complicated with tv inernet and phone all the same crap expensive and crap like that ...damn good thing i moved from there
dumass1985 7 months ago
If you dont like the flames, make the video private. If you dont like the work, do it yourself. Did that installer do a great job ? No. However when you installed cable before in apartments and have legal restrictions on what you can and can't do, then you will realize whats going on here. I won't resort to childish name calling. What goes around comes around.
matt9c1 8 months ago
@wendelgee01 haha good call, didnt mean my comment in a dissrespectful way.
airmatt86 8 months ago
Wallfish
Njstench 8 months ago
@jo3rip I've mentioned a couple of times that my wife was in the apartment. Why she didn't yell "stop!" is beyond me.
wendelgee01 8 months ago
That is un forgiveable, however I JUST KNOW you called, mulligan! watch?v=C26iKtPYrcc its terrible for them to think that this is acceptable
jameskoolkat 7 months ago
COMCAST cable sent some contractors to my house to add some cable lines upstairs at my house, they were in the process of doing the same type of shit to my house but i stopped them and showed them how to do there job correctly and it turns out what i showed them was easier than the bullshit they were going to do. This stuff happens. Luckily the could understand enough english to understand what i explained to them.
alanms1975 8 months ago
Wow....This Guy Was a Genius!
ZayaX0712 8 months ago
no fuckin way!! Ima beginner but even I know better than that, lol that was hideous!!
NCWC916 8 months ago
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I like to run wires through closets and run the cable in and out of all your coat sleaves and out the other side!!!
boogerpresely 9 months ago
I like to run wires through closets and run the cable in and out of all your coat sleaves and out the other side!!!
boogerpresely 9 months ago
Im a contractor , yes that can very well be a contractor dont take me wrong i love my job as a contractor i work very hard and take pride in it.Im 35 now been doing this since i was 18 started as a phone tech and now loving every moment of it as cable tv tech. Inhouse dislike us period coz of this type of installs i dont blame em for that. It boils dwn to the work load that gets dumped into our pool thats just wrong. No wonder the newbies get overwhelmed keeping up the pace. Mistake after mista
ilaivunibola 9 months ago
theres gonna be alot of holes in your walls if/when u ever remove the cable! haha.
niZSht561 9 months ago
Cable companies use contractors to do install work, The guy who did this was probably on his first week, and had answered a classified or Craigslist ad. The employer saw a warm body and a truck with a ladder rack and said here's a work order buddy, don't screw it up.
You have recourse from the cable company, and I assume you have already taken that route. Funny video, well done with the "Flight of the Bumblebee"
cableguy1994 9 months ago
I've been in the business since 1985, and Yes, I've seen this guy's work (or someone else like him) many many times.
cableguy1994 9 months ago
nope this was a cable guy job...i can tell he really cared towards the end cause the line was reeeelllll tight around corners lol. that guy didnt know wat he was doing cause the goddamn line was so long.
Cajunhitman 9 months ago
he did a pretty good job. i would have left that it laying on the floor. buy a house if you want it done right.
g00dberger 10 months ago
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g00dberger 10 months ago
i hope that you called to have a supervisor come out and review the work and had them have someone competent come out and redo the run...
this is the type of work that you get when the cable companies hire sub-contractors who are paid per job... a cable company employee who is paid per hour would not be as likely to do such sh!t work (not that it isn't possible, just less likely...
nypj 10 months ago
As a cable tech sometimes there is no other option I don't know the lay out of your apartment but where I work we are not allowed to attach cable to the outside of an apartment with out a written letter from the apartment complex. As for a wall fish if it was possible to be done he should of offered that to you but it dose cost extra.
drm484201 10 months ago
I'm a cable tech and I believe this video. Techs do some retarded things and that's why you never leave them alone in your house. That should be common sense anyways for anyone you don't know that's in your house but I have to fix wiring like that on a weekly basis.
myjobsucksass 10 months ago
@pro151a Nope. Local Cable company. Swear to god. But no way to prove it I guess. I really didn't think this would turn into an argument over whether it is real or not. I guess everyone has to throw their opinion out there. I just thought it was amazing that it happened.
wendelgee01 10 months ago
Too all the "cable company" groupies here, you are all hacks ans and scumbags. Fuck bags with not consciene or clues. Now that being said, why would you cable company guys defen the entire industry? That just seems short sided, defend your own work, but you just have no idea about the rest, the sub contractor installers whatever.
Even if this guy is lying, this kind of work still seem typical of cable company losers.
signal44 10 months ago
Uh, aren't they allowed to cut in boxes. Just askin.
chuckbyf1 11 months ago
Could have at least used white cable
thedudeca 11 months ago
SUP. FROM TWC AND CLEARLY THEY FIRED YOU FROM THE COMPANY I GUESS SOMEONE IS BUTT HURT.....
CHINITOLOVES69 1 year ago
THIS IS AN APARTMENT? nice.
Otsuko 1 year ago
Dude, clean your house.
timmcrae77 1 year ago
dude i have had the same thing done to me!!!! sept i was doing yard work wile wife was inside with kids guy comes out and says im finished and i do a walk threw before he leaves and shit ran down bace boards and over door jams and stuff!!! i was pissed made him stay there called an had another guy come out right away and fix it all got free installation and cable for a month what was funny cable ran infront of door and guy said use a rug to cover it...what a trip
killerfishthensum1 1 year ago
I work in the phone industry, I was repairing phone wire in the basement of an elderly womans house, and she forgot I was there and left. I heard her drive down her driveway and leave. I had to call her cell to make sure she had her house keys. I've personally seen cable companies, or most of the time, contractors for cable companies do some crazy things, like running the wire over the entranceway to the living room, then telling the customer to cover it with a throw rug
95ffd 1 year ago
Next time don't leave the apartment. Im a tech and I'm not even allowed to be there if someone isn't present.
taoken1982 1 year ago
Ya get what ya pay for.....Years and years of lowering rates so all the good installers moved on and now the industry is full of miscreant goat herders fresh off the boat from some 3rd world country.
jujumon2 1 year ago
Three words. Cold Air Return. That guy made his job ten times harder.
amerritt84 1 year ago
Was a contractor for a year and yes - Ive seen it done that way.
twolow24 1 year ago
this one is pretty bad, but in 20 years i've seen worse!
fcarabat 1 year ago
it would be way too expensive to run that much cable just to make the cable company "look bad" lol
Crowmagnum93bham 1 year ago
Well, they got their cable...but seriously, not the worst I've seen. I have a hole in my closet so I can run cable to my office from a splitter in the living room wall. We can all guess what the landlord will have to say about that.
melissarose8585 1 year ago
if you had black walls that might of worked
blueshockey41 1 year ago
hahah what a dumb ass. I could have done a better job
daburg412 1 year ago
do you want things done,or do you want things done right?this install looks like it wasnt on his work order to wire 2nd floor,so did it for free.with a 10 dlr bill you would both satisfied.
MrGaryislove 1 year ago
I was waiting for it to go over a cat then the toilet.
DBCS19 1 year ago
@at least he took the time to make sure it was securly fastened to the wall
simbalage22 1 year ago 10
This is a condo or a apartment the carpet fish of the wire could have been better. If this was a house then it would have been wall fished. My take is this is a old building and was not pre wired for cable and if that went to your modem well good luck.
N4tti1ntampa 1 year ago
@N4tti1ntampa
Yeah, apartment complexes love when you screw up the carpet to shoot a wire all the way down a hallway. . .
IndianaAbsentee 1 year ago
WHERE WAS THE HOMEOWNER WHO APPROVED OF THIS INSTALL WHEN THE TECH EXPLAINED IT? WTF
hawke232 1 year ago
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60dwalker 1 year ago 5
@60dwalker
Sorry, it wasn't. It was a cable installer for a major cable company. I have no desire to make the cable industry look bad. In fact, I admire this company who employs 100s of people in my community. I think this was an installer who was new to the job and just did as he was asked without using his head.
"Clearly done by a home owner trying to make the cable industry look bad."
This statement just comes of as very paranoid.
wendelgee01 1 year ago
@wendelgee01 get pwned no0B
cspalmer 1 year ago
@60dwalker You obviously haven't met the same cable installers most people have met. They would actually do this, not to mention show no clue how any of their equipment works. That's the norm.
xargos 1 year ago
@60dwalker looks like he new what he was doin put the correct bends in the wire where needed
xixrobbiexix 1 year ago
looks like he new what he was doin put the correct bends in the wire where needed
xixrobbiexix 1 year ago
homeowner making the industry look bad? The technician is clearly a complete mental fucking retard or its a skate job he's doing while he's smoking pot and looking for other employment such that he just doesn't give a shit. If thats how you would have wired that, you should slap yourself in the cock with a brick.
f12raptor 11 months ago
@60dwalker
Yeah, no way. I have been doing QC's for several years and Every time a new contract company comes in this happens. They don't know what a wall fish is or how to wrap the house. It's actually pathetic but BIG CABLE has no rules on training when it comes to contractors. They just give them a truck, meter, ladder and a few STB's a modems and send them to the field. Glad I work for a FTTH company now.
greenpea82 10 months ago
@60dwalker
Yeah, no way. I have been doing QC's for several years and Every time a new contract company comes in this happens. They don't know what a wall fish is or how to wrap the house. It's actually pathetic but BIG CABLE has no rules on training when it comes to contractors. They just give them a truck, meter, ladder and a few STB's a modems and send them to the field. Glad I work for a FTTH company now.
greenpea82 10 months ago
@60dwalker I've been doing Cable TV for 25 years, this installation was done by a squirrel, or a contractor but not a real cable guy.
garywhooper 10 months ago
haha wow
91jchevy87ec1 1 year ago
I would have used the return airvents but didn't see any in your house. If the cable line feed comes in your living room, there's no other way to do it than what he did. I would have explained it better to you of what a shit show it would look like, and if you said proceed, I would have done the exact same thing but with white cable instead. For this job tho, and the amount of work it took him, it wouldn't be worth my time. I would have told you to hire an electrician.
OpeAaron 1 year ago
hey atleast he nailed it down around the moldings and not just laid it across the floor or fish it under the rug...lol ok well the staircase was tacky.....lmao but funny over all. I was a cable tech and you would be suprised how cable was ran to get to a room.....lol funny video music reminds me of tom chasing jerry....lmao
tattoonepa 1 year ago
Its the thought that Counts ha ha !!!
1972cableman 1 year ago
@1972cableman he should have thought harder, lol
scarecrowman472001 1 year ago
Wow.
chopperrui 1 year ago
you cant just drill through peoples house you need there permission thats why he did this becasue you left your house
crumbuntas 1 year ago
Well, it's not a trip&fall hazard. And if you want to decide where cable outlets go, get your own house.
MenardGCrebs 1 year ago
I would have told you, "it's an apartment, if you don't have a landlord letter, you get no new outlets. it's not your property. you can't just decide to put lines wherever you want."
kcmoon2001 1 year ago
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cablemedic25 1 year ago
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cablemedic25 1 year ago
Of course you didn't want to pay for the wallfish
cablemedic25 1 year ago
Probably the day he was quitting. I love the way he went over the open box.
yellowzx6r 1 year ago
LMMFAO....HE USED LIKE 10x AS MUCH WIRE AS HE NEEDED TO, AND PROBABLY WEAKENED THE WHOLE HOUSE, BANGING IN ALL THOSE CLIPS...FUCKIN JOKA LOL
McDeeViouz 1 year ago
Like someone else said, no written permission from the landlord, then we can't drill holes.
Hallofhealing 1 year ago
thats not how u do it do you call the provider back
billeyjbob5000 1 year ago
What a N*#$er, I am a cable installer and this is just ridiculous. It would have taken him less time to just put in a new outlet and do it right.
bigz711 1 year ago
shouldnt have left dip shit
kevontill 1 year ago
wtf??? hahahaaha!
mbison83 1 year ago
I say the dude was a beast. He did all that in an hour? AWESOME.
mtownlobo 1 year ago
wtf man!
monarchofthesea 1 year ago
That is prettty bad, I am a DirecTV installer for DirecTV adn have installed many appartments and never had to do anything like that. I installed a 17 story industrial tower and still did not have to do anything crazy like that.
mythril4 1 year ago
i don't believe that. It would be much easier to drill a hole on the wall of the 2nd floor outside and then set it up
auxiliary 1 year ago
why but i mean why will you leave the house for an hour he couldent stole something
MrQwert7 1 year ago
nope noone would ever do that lol i see this being a door room fix kids not wanting to pay the install fees come on now lol
bigdaddydippin 1 year ago
@bigdaddydippin nope. this was an install from one of the big cable companies.
wendelgee01 1 year ago
I would get so fired for doing that.
ryjames06 1 year ago
why did you leave the house? make him explain to you what his/her intentions are before he/she does it. IT'S YOUR HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2008WFC 1 year ago 4
@2008WFC
Okay Okay, I've been hiding one fact to protect a loved one. I left the house, but my wife was still there. She watched the whole installation and didn't say a word.
Later she said, "I thought it looked funny, but if that's what you wanted..."
argh.
wendelgee01 1 year ago
@wendelgee01 ...That's a pretty big fact to leave out. I've had customers request this very procedure when their only other option was to have the cable wrapped outside the house. I tell them that it will "look ridiculous" before I start though.
Beauxdeauxfinglok 10 months ago
i'm a spark and i trying to think what my house would look like if all the cables were surface fixed!!!
mastergx1 1 year ago
A for effort , F for fired! ha!
Blacksails421 1 year ago
if you live in an apartment, and do not have a letter allowing cables to be run outside, he would have no choice but to run them inside.
invictus0x0 1 year ago
i would have gotten fired for that
yeaimamerican 1 year ago
looks good to me haha. just think of all the extra coax you'll have if you fix it the way you want it.
remmy73 1 year ago
wow what a douche.
AENIMA42069 1 year ago
Damn, that sucks!
YoutubbeAssistant 1 year ago
LMAOO!! THATS ALOT OF CABLE!
TSxUCEHADOUKEN 1 year ago
If you dont want cable ran that way buy a house. theres only so much we can do in apartments be lucky he did it. I would have down that job and laughed once I got that rescheduled be lucky he did it.
psykolyko 1 year ago
he should have used a white cable wire, thats what the comcast guy did in my townhouse so i can hardly notice it . . . .
SpKing85 1 year ago
hows the signal after all that coax?? haha. thats pathetic btw do it right
svxforlife 1 year ago
I'm a technician for Comcast, and I would have told you to get a router or purchase some homelink plugs. That just isn't aesthetically pleasing.
ALLIASKBAND 1 year ago
good thing u like it,cuz u call me, i say, well we don't run cable like that and u have to be home, so u got lucky
sweldon08 1 year ago
no permission from land lord? hears 50 feet of cable have a nice day.
amcabbott 1 year ago 15
@amcabbott bingo!
SteveSherrick 1 year ago
@amcabbott
Yeah, it's an APARTMENT! I would like to hear from the homeowner what his suggested route for the cable would have been. Oh yeah, and the installer can't drill any holes or cross any high-traffic areas without a letter from the landlord. . . c'mon homeowner, let's hear it!
IndianaAbsentee 1 year ago
i would have also told the customer to get a router or letter of permission to drill. that must have taken forever. but we have all been there.
31national 1 year ago
HAHAHA!! he said 10th floor!!!!Holy crap!
jvoltron 2 years ago
if i'm on an install and you leave, i will be leaving too. the guy was a cowboy with this install but the policy is no drilling in apartments so be thankful he ran that wire because i guarantee it took longer than he wanted to be there. i would have told you to get a router.
slcCATVguy 2 years ago
absolutely.
metalmshreves 2 years ago
OMFG
markag6 2 years ago
you can hardly notice it. lol
glightum 2 years ago
that is absolutely hilarious
croakerchoker504 2 years ago
Thank god you didn't live on the 10th floor.
DBCS19 2 years ago
did you tip him?
jehadjo 2 years ago 13
Most MDU's have a contract with the cable company that they will NOT add outlets ( if it needs done the apartment maintenance team adds them) He couldn't drill but still wanted you to have your outlet. A little strange way of going around it but at least it was done..... The apartment complex maintenance team can add a proper one
tcox0011 2 years ago
Not bad i would have used white Cable he he. I bet you asked when he was already done with the install.
flcjuniorslead 2 years ago
I work for comcast and we are not allowed to be in a customers house alone, there has to be someone over 18 there at all times during the techs visit. If you couldn't stay there with the tech you shouldn't have reschedualed your apointment.
DiscountKiller 2 years ago
true that.
radiof00le 2 years ago
guy wanted to waste as much time as possible, you gave him an hour's worth of pretending to have stupid, unanswered questions. i wouldnt leave him alone, I once caught a plumber searching my apartment for drugs when I left my camera on (he didn't take a stack of cash from the drawer he opened, too obvious, reportable) hidden in a speaker I hollowed out. I think I'll post it on youtube!!! why did I never think of that. he's such a loser. got fired a week before last christmas, hahahaha
7ru7h4dd1c7 2 years ago
I don't get it. How come he just didn't run another drop from outside and drill a hole into that room?
trueblu8 2 years ago
At least you dident have to have an electrician wall fish it...the tech was being nice!!! I Would have said cant do it..need a electrician...
MrShawnb9375 2 years ago
at least the tack job was clean!!!!
sanjostyle 2 years ago
If all you got charged was a A/O fee for that... you got lucky!
JBlink77 2 years ago
Well... If you didn't have to pay wallfish charges I wouldnt be too upset.
afaidley85 2 years ago 2
They did that to my house.
ZacGTV 2 years ago
2funny...dam i have been in cable for awhile...it comes down to poor training...thats if he did it,,,ALSO ANY CABLE DAWGS ON HERE SEND ME A REQUEST..I LIKE CHILLIN WITH MY OWN KIND LATA ALL...RUFF
draf4 2 years ago 2
I doubt this is a prank, which just makes this ten times more hillarious. He was just trying to provide above and beyond customer service I bet :)
Gwmcmi02 2 years ago
Shoulda had the lines built in before the place was completely built. The tech should have not ran the line. First response ."no" and then "call for approval by your landlord" and then the install fee for the extended line.
Its not Us (comcast) who are trying to be jerks about it. It's just that your landlord didn't consider the luxury of an extra line in the second floor. We charge only because:
time it takes to do the the job Correctly . obviously, the tech did this xtra work for free
IsThisGreg 2 years ago 2
i've seen WAY worse shit than this.
akacahlm 2 years ago
no thats just about the worst.
blazerpounds 2 years ago
It wasn't a contractor, it was our cable service's in-house installer. They sent him out and I asked him if he could extend the cable to the 2nd floor. He was dumb for saying "yes" and doing it the way he did it. I was dumb for leaving and assuming everything was kosher.
Why does everything have to be an argument these days? Just laugh at a dumb thing and quit getting so defensive.
wendelgee01 2 years ago
why the hell did you leave? The SECOND you left i woulda left a noted on your door to say call to schedule another appointment.
blazerpounds 2 years ago 2
yep i will be damned if im gonna stay in a house without someone there, your just askin to get your nuts in a vise!!!
evilbeast1987 2 years ago
@wendelgee01 i agree man this is some funny shit. lol. i have never seen that kind of install before.
Moppin919 1 year ago
@wendelgee01 that was funny....hahahaha
hikari2183 1 year ago
Did u asked a contractor to do extra work for free? what u espected?
orlando50dgo 2 years ago
ha ha thaan you!! haa
buggeazy102 2 years ago
Dang most houses these days come with cable in every room well what it is is a cable(coaxial) that leads to the cable box on the side of the house so I guess you live in a older place since my house turns 1 year old Nov 15 2009
Thegamer5150 2 years ago
No, I have done fresh installations on new houses and the builders are two cheap to put a cable and telephone jack in each room. I have to tell the cutomer that I have to run cable and cat5e and they get mad like it my fault.
elysium76 2 years ago
I wonder how they expect you to work around that fact lol.
masterjego 2 years ago
not all new houses are built as such. 3 hammer construction in northern IL comes to mind. they have a tendency to have an outlet in the master BR and living room only, even in a 4 bedroom house.
FuddMcDee 2 years ago
well at least your internet will work
SimX9000 2 years ago
I love all the in house guys that say "Must be a contractor" all the crappy work I have ever seen was done be in house techs. Most contractors have 2 QC guys following behind them..one from their company, and one from the cable company...Most in house guys don't even get their work checked up on.
I am a contractor, and i would have to say I would not do this...I would have told the customer to get a letter of permission from the landlord.
chrismcb74 2 years ago
ummm...you might be one of the few contractors who dont do this...but most of the contractors are horrible..."piece work pay" if i wanted to make a bunch of money do as many jobs in a day as i can...any problems let the inhouse guys go clean it up...i would say 30% of the contractors are good...the other 70 are horrible.
djnutsax23 2 years ago
@chrismcb74 Have to Agree, The Comcast Contractor installed a New Drop from the Pole to the House, New Line in the House and Made the Internet Work Correctly in About an Hour.
When Wanted to Add the TV the 'COMCAST' Direct People Spent 3 Hours Installing the 7 Foot Drop for the TV, and I Had to Call Service the Next Day as Box Never Downloaded, the In-House Idiots (Forgot to Mention there were 3 of them Doing the Drop Install) Never Removed the SIgnal Trap at the Pole
erskr1 6 months ago
Damn! That must've taken forever! You know that no technician would do all that unless it was the only option. But why wouldn't he use white cable?