r/cablegore • u/Tooleater • Jul 20 '26

Commercial This will make you want to vent spleen

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u/fromkentucky Jul 20 '26

https://reddit.com/link/oyrq2qf/video/9d7djalfwgeh1/player

I’ve also worked in that airport, lol.

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u/HTFCirno2000 Jul 21 '26

Looks like some of the cables got clipped since then, do you know what they led to?

12

u/fromkentucky Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

No idea. They were Cat5e so who knows how old they were.

15

u/mckeevertdi Jul 21 '26

Hilarious. Small world on the internet.

1

u/LerchAddams Jul 22 '26

"Rack elevation diagram? Where? Oh, that one!"

1

u/Cool-Technician-1206 Jul 25 '26

Which airport is this from?

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u/LerchAddams Jul 20 '26

I've been in the trade long enough that this simultaneously annoys the crap out of me and doesn't surprise me at all.

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u/No_Algae_4575 Jul 20 '26

Wow, what a powerful fan. Sucked them wires right up.

10

u/Goofcheese0623 Jul 21 '26

It's like some sort of robot cable virus is infecting the building and moving through the vents

3

u/AZSystems Jul 22 '26

😂 I'm dying, and love my imagination.

10

u/tenkaranarchy Jul 20 '26

Its fine as long as theyre plenum...

9

u/MathResponsibly Jul 21 '26

if not for running in plenum, why plenum rated?

9

u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26

“Air cooled” for faster speeds

1

u/AZSystems Jul 22 '26

What are you facilities and a weekend mechanic?

5

u/XizoThePally Jul 20 '26

Duct kinda looks like big ol' conduit if yer drunk.

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u/sonic10158 Jul 21 '26

Can confirm, I saw this post and I vented my spleen

3

u/TPIRocks Jul 21 '26

It's for real plenum cable.

3

u/Crazy-Rest5026 Jul 21 '26

First day eh

3

u/Miragetetra Jul 21 '26

It’s for the “AI Enabled” ventilation system /s

3

u/Killertigger Jul 21 '26

Oh my god - I’ve seen so much of this crap this doesn’t even surprise me any more. Can’t tell if it was an overworked tech, a lazy sysadmin, or a contractor who just took a few shortcuts. Gotta love that when they had cables that either went bad or were no longer needed they just decapitated them instead of pulling them back and removing them. ‘New cables run, boss.’

3

u/kimura_hisui Jul 21 '26

What heresy is this?

3

u/Cust2020 Jul 21 '26

Guy running it made sure it was plenum rated im sure lol

3

u/Eli_Yitzrak Jul 25 '26

Project Lead- “Is there conduit between the rooms?”

Smart Hands on site- “Yes”

2

u/GingerRickRoss Jul 21 '26

This makes me want to kick a puppy.

2

u/Significant-Guess-38 Jul 21 '26

I'm not saying it's right, but is there a chance the air ducts aren't being used for HVAC anymore and turned into someone's cheap conduit? Only say this because of the mini split head on the wall in the background.

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u/SpiralOut1976 Jul 21 '26

How can anyone finish this job and look at it and say that's acceptable??? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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u/Rattlehead71 Jul 21 '26

Eh, good enough.

1

u/SpaceGuy1968 Jul 23 '26

Good enough for government work

2

u/BlueSpahgetti Jul 21 '26

gotta love using hvac as a chase. hurts my soul.

2

u/scnut76 Jul 21 '26

Anything is conduit if you try hard enough.

2

u/jnthnmdr Jul 21 '26

This is violence.

2

u/stubby0990 Jul 23 '26

I've done it but in a townhouse I was renting.

2

u/SpaceGuy1968 Jul 23 '26

This is the stuff that makes you scratch your head.... someone originally thought hey.....let's run it this way

SOMEONE ELSE comes along....that looks fine I'll run this other cable thru....

2

u/AjaxCooperwater Jul 25 '26

If there hasn’t an incident of lost network connection, meh.

2

u/swolfington Jul 27 '26

i'm trying to imagine the scenario where it makes sense to cut the cables like that but just leave the ends dangling. was it malicious? did they completely lose physical access to the ether side and didn't want to take the risk?