This is about a useless co-worker who was foisted on me when I had to disconnect and reconnect phones and computers for ten cubes that were being torn down to replace the carpet under them.
To complete this task, we had to remove jacks and pull the cable out of them to reuse. So, what should have happened was labeling the cables before cutting the jacks off, to reuse when the cubes we reinstalled.
What did happen was he just cut the jacks off without labeling the cables and then disappeared so when I prepared to reinstall the cabling and make sure correct phone numbers and network connections.
He left me on my own so I had to tone each cable before I could reinstall the cables. That required me to take a walk back and forth between the cables and the phone / network room halfway across the building. This added unnecessary hours to my work to get a good result.
