back then i was installing t1’s in homes,warehouse space, you name it for all of these young guys setting up email sites,web sites,porn sites all of it.Lucent was fronting the hardware to them on a payment contingency.
Well after it all(dot com boom) fell through its ass and they all went back home to mom and dads house Lucent was left holding the bag.
Lucent was a grossly over priced CPE vendor and the old bell mind set screwed hem up.
On a large build out like say Oppenheimer 1st guy comes in surveys the job.2nd guy comes in places a template on the back board,3d guy comes in mounts the equip,4th guy comes in and runs all the station and data drops,last guy come in and programs the switch.
All these guys were making big time bucks dragged their feet with the ole union mind set and eventually put them selves out of a job.
The book shuffling didn’t help them out much either.