You Know Your A Nortel(Avaya) Tech If 20

[toolbox212121]

I will start this classic post with an easy one.

"When counting you always say ZERO then start with 1,2,3.....

 

[toolbox212121]

To save a word doc you type "LD 43 EDD

 

[KiwiOz07]

The Avaya "expert" on your AACC fault was on an AACC training course with you last week and only attended for two days....

 

[KiwiOz07]

You can only type in 3 or 4 letter acronyms.

 

[toolbox212121]

You refer to paper clips as INI keys.

 

[DocVic]

When you still remember how to use the programming pins from the 1st Northern Telecom EPABX called the "Pulse SG-1"...

When you remember working for the Bell System (what's that?)and seeing that NT building across the parking lots and wondering... "Who are those guys?"

When you saw your 1st SL-1A and thought, "I could fit one of these in my basement..."

And finally, When you saw a QSU61 set with the LED's and that brown face plate and thought, "a ROLM set makes this thing look like crap..."

DocVic
Dedicated to Nortel Products till the end.
Need help?

http://www.TSS-CO.com

 

[GordonKapesMZ4]

Searching for the Orange RLS button on a Cisco or Avaya Phone and not finding one......

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[GordonKapesMZ4]

another one,

Having to use an analog trunk to connect your paging system because your Avaya system doesn't have an output....more related to BCM but still annoying!

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[biv343]

You spent 3 days of your 5 day training class trying to make the lab equipment work. Then said to heck with it and went to Bone Daddy's.

 

[KiwiOz07]

Hi biv343,
Virtual learning by any chance?

 

[curtismo]

When your vendor tech tells about site evaluating a 11c for maintenance coverage, taking off the cabinet covers and still working while completely caked full of charcoal dust, and you know it's 100 percent true because you've heard stories from other people working at that rural famous-brand-name filthy charcoal plant.

 

[pcat200]

You still refer to the thing on the right hand side of the phone as an "Add on Module

 

[Wanebo]

Your kid asks for a crayon and you say "Blue or red?"

The backspace key on your keyboard hasn't worked for months but you don't mind.

You mention the words "Media adapter" and the network engineers look at you funny.

 

[curtismo]

You know that CLS DTN = Digitone really means "DTMF" dialing rather than rotary outpulsing in trunk programming and you still wonder why Nortel hasn't made this a default because the last time you saw a dial telephone was on your grandmas wall - before you bought her one of those big button phones so she could see the numbers.

 

[Tacosoup]

You can type "STAT" faster than you can type "THE"
You have flown home from Texas with more books than clothes
You find comfort in the voice of Joan Kenley

 

[KCFLHRC]

You went to the Million Dollar Saloon the night before your Test and got back to your hotel around 2:00 AM

 

[curtismo]

You order Ground Start trunks and the CO tech tells you they aren't available in this Central Office.

You order Ground Start trunks and the CO tech says "Boy, it's been a while since I've done these."

You order Ground Start trunks and it takes a local CO tech an hour to tell the wet-behind-the-ears hundred-miles-away database specialist how to program the CO switch for Ground Start trunks.

You order Ground Start trunks and you have to wait a couple of days for the local CO tech to find his soldering iron to strap the CO cards properly to handle Ground Start - after spending an hour trying to figure out why the GS trunks aren't working in the first place on turn-up.

You order Ground Start trunks and the LEC Central Supply only sends the local CO tech the bare minimum number of cards to do the job, not planning for having a bad one in the shipment.

(PS: And all of these within the last year).

 

[curtismo]

Basically to summarize...you know you're a Nortel tech if...

You order Ground Start trunks.




Period.

 

[allenmac]

You write all your passwords in sharpie on the underside of your keyboard.

 

[KE407122]

You still have replacement buttons for Logic 10 sets and 51A lamps in your tool box.





KE407122

"The phone was working fine before it knocked over my coffee.

 

[one234]

If you need to go to the toilet:

I'm going to LD 43 and do an EDD CLR (Don't forget the CLR )


Marc D.

If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... Oh wait, he does...