On 1/12/2016 15:15, Jonathan Smith wrote:
Wait I thought that was NTF, (No Trouble Found), as it magically cleared up. Amazing what was/is done to avoid reporting issues/problems to the PUC or the like.
"NTF" is valid only if the reported condition was not observed by the reporter at all. "CCWT" means the reporter observed the reported condition that disappeared while inserting or removing test cords, thumping on the bay iron, or correcting an unrelated adjustment. Couple of short war stories--we had a scandal and investigation of the proportion of tickets that were closed "NTF". Turns out that the night equipment man, as a matter of habit, every night when he arrived for work, retrieved a piece of 2 X 4 he had hidden, and whacked the end of every lineup on his way in. In a different office, but the same kind of problem, one day the tool crib clerk stopped me and asked about a stack of tickets in an "analysis" project she had been assigned. All of the tickets in the stack were mine, and they all referred to equipment that day-shift patched-out and wrote up that night-shift cleared as NTF or CCWT. I had gotten tired of writing up the sad and detailed story every day and had started reporing them as "AFU"-- she wanted to know what "AFU" meant. I told her it meant "All Fouled Up", where upon she picked up another stack, also mine, marked "NFG". I told her those were the same at the AFU ones.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net <mailto:larrysheldon@cox.net>> wrote:
On 1/12/2016 03:47, Marc Storck wrote:
Today the situation cleared on it’s own as it appears. (at least I haven’t been notified of any human action)
Ancient wire-line telephone and telegraph (aka "data" in the latter days) technology, trouble ticket code "CCWT" ("Came Clear While Testing").
-- sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)
-- sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)