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[Taxi_Driver]

You might be there a while then.....the theatre in Swindon was closed down bout oct time last year coz they found a bit of asbestos......then found a bit more.....then a bit more......still hasnt reopened!!

[Golfbuddy]

Never happened at my school - you were just allowed to wear coat in classroom

You must have been one of the rich kids!! At least you had a coat

[STMO123]

My school is a clasp type 4B building. It's made from asbestos We have contractors in every holiday, removing a bit more. There wont be any school left soon

[Matchless]

Twas my desk it all collapsed onto.
I reported the problem on Wednesday morning but nobody had appeared by 10:00 so started to clean up and move to a spare desk cos everything was soaking. Then noticed some of the fireproofing around a steel beam was missing....60's building so I was concerned about asbestos and raised it with the site management " no problem, there is no asbestos within the office"
2'oclock-ish the facilities manager appears and i ask again.." no asbestos..." But says I, that is part of the fire proofing and given the age of the building I am concerned...so she goes away and re-appears the following day with two suits who take a look, mutter to each other about something being exposed and hurry off.
7pm last night a guy arrives to take samples, has a look and says we must leave the office. He then reported to the HSE and they said the office had to be sealed untill the results of the lab test came through.
From 6am today there were notices saying the floor was shut and men in bunny suits and masks appeared at 3 ish. Apparantly it is brown asbestos but we have yet to be told by our management, one manager even told his staff they could go in to collect personal items (I dont think he had been briefed as to what was found)
Im rather pi**ed off that I was sat under this lot for two days while various managers denied there was a problem. Also feel rather nervous that I will be held responsible for 30+ people being stopped from working normally.
I cant believe that they have decontamination people working all w/e when they have yet to get anyone up onto the roof to fix the leak that brought the ceiling down in the first place.

[Dave-C]

is this the old GPT do I recall?

It certainly is.....

and no its not the Home Hub lot.....we design the kit, we dont try to operate it

Got that, TRY, the amount of people I meet who TRY to operate it is amazing....  Even we, engineers..
Had a lady today who said it was *ritish *elecoms fault because XP service pack 2 wasn't installed on her PC.... hence the ADSL software wouldn't go on....

DC

[Marks DTM Calib]

is this the old GPT do I recall?

It certainly is.....

and no its not the Home Hub lot.....we design the kit, we don't try to operate it

Got that, TRY, the amount of people I meet who TRY to operate it is amazing....  Even we, engineers..
Had a lady today who said it was *ritish *elecoms fault because XP service pack 2 wasn't installed on her PC.... hence the ADSL software wouldn't go on....

DC

You think thats bad....try dealing with some of the operators...

There is a certain customer who has some OMS1600 kit installed in the network (which is bloody good stuff) who had a software unavailable alarm so they went into the bank status and switched banks to a newer version....which is basically an in-formal upgrade (there are specific procedures to follow to avoid traffic loss which on a 10G line interface can be substantial)......this resulted in an old connection database being loaded and a shed load of traffic being lost....

To make matters worse they then swapped the memory cards over which resulted in a decommissioned shelf....i.e. no traffic at all!

And these are the people who should know what they are doing......still, it would only affect most of the UK's customer help lines given the location of this node in their network...nt wanting to give away which county it was in!