I am just kind of curious here if you lost the site why has it been such a 
disaster getting it back on line? You couldn’t just put new equipment up?

> On Oct 9, 2020, at 10:05 AM, David Milholen <dmilho...@wletc.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> All I can say to that situation is damn.. 
> 
> Find new people... sheesh
> 
> On 10/9/2020 12:19 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
>> We lost a primary sight in July during the storms. This is a remote site 
>> feeding around 80 customers and has been a shitshow getting back online. 
>> They were patient for a bit. We've hit wall after wall, new lease delays, 
>> 5ghz interference, multiple licensed links, wrong equipment, new hardware 
>> failures, electricians running 220 to 110 circuits, contractors wife 
>> kidnapping a kid, if it could go wrong it did. The town has had meetings 
>> over this and we last promised to be production ready and problem free 2 
>> weeks ago. At this point they're shopping our lease probably. We have a 
>> multi year breakout on the lease and can fix it, but in the interim they'll 
>> probably colocate a competitor. Honestly, I cant blame them.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 11:54 PM Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> wrote:
>>> Can you clarify what you mean by "80 customer site loss"?
>>> 
>>> Does this mean you'll miss out on potentially 80 new customers or you'll 
>>> lose 80 current customers if you don't do said work?
>>> 
>>> If it's 80 new customers waiting for service, most will wait an extra 2 
>>> weeks if you explain COVID has taken out a guy. Some may go with a 
>>> competitor but if they suck, they'll be back to you eventually. We had 
>>> people wait up to 5 weeks for an install when we were backed up from the 
>>> COVID rush for service between March-August.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 11:46 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> So, I have a probable covid positive contractor. 
>>>> I know the answer here, I'm just sounding it out. 
>>>> I'm behind as fuck with this guys work. I worked with him last weekend, 
>>>> I've been sick with harvest flu since a couple days before, his daughter 
>>>> tested positive the next day, his wife and other daughter the day after 
>>>> that and he got sick wednesday. Everybody is over symptoms (wife and 
>>>> daughter still have no taste or smell, but that lasts a long time)
>>>> My harvest flu symptoms havent changed, not worried about me.
>>>> 
>>>> Hes wanting to catch up behind work saturday. I'm usually very risk 
>>>> tolerant, and my house has been directly exposed a ton of times, so I know 
>>>> it's not as easily spread as they say.
>>>> Its mid harvest, a farmer getting this shit right now could be devastating.
>>>> 
>>>> Its gonna cost us alot if he doesnt get caught up, a substantial amount. 
>>>> Like 80 customer site loss substantial. We arent big, that's more than 5 
>>>> percent.
>>>> 
>>>> My boss respects me after all these years, if I make a call, knowing the 
>>>> costs like this, he will back my call, but it burns all those years of 
>>>> trust.
>>>> 
>>>> Theres like a .0001 percent chance he would spread it, zero direct 
>>>> interaction. But hes present at grain elevators mid harvest. Grain dust 
>>>> will drop anything airborne like a rock. It takes an exposure to a high 
>>>> viral count to even get symptomatic.
>>>> 
>>>> Tell me I'm wrong to push his work out another week or 2
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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