knight0334
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 Posted: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:04:59 Post Subject: doh! Broke the bank today.. |
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I was given an 8+ mile fiber project at the end of July to engineer. Start at the CO, then go 4 miles to first remote switch, turn north and go 3 miles to a cell tower, then go another mile to the last remote switch. The Network Planner estimated and funded $188K for it.
Well, the total ended up at $581K this morning when I priced it. oops.. somebody forgot to figure in the cost of the 70 poles that needed changed out due to clearances, rot and physical damage when budgeting.. Or the placement of 1/2 mile of poleline where there was no plant to begin with.
2 weeks into the design I called up the planner to warn him that he might want to pad the estimates a bit and figure in for pole work.. ..I got the reply, "well, I'm usually pretty close on estimates." Which normally he is, not this time.
I swear I heard my direct boss', and their boss' @sses clamp shut with a sound similar of thunder when they opened up the work packet this morning. lol
Of the $75Mil I was given to spend on getting DSL to every door by 2015, I just whacked a fat portion of it right there.
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