The Wireless Register - Blogs http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/ TWR = a forum dedicated to the professionals that make wireless work. en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:17:05 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/images/classicgrey/misc/rss.jpg The Wireless Register - Blogs http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/ Today I am the bug!!! http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/victorlguerrero/340-today-i-am-bug.html Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:32:10 GMT It is said - and rightly so - "Sometimes you're the wind sheild - Sometimes you'r the bug."

Well - it seems that TODAY - I am the bug!. Telecom is a funny duckling. It is, as I have always stated, the wild wild west of the corporate world. It's the only place, that I know of, that a convicted felon can actually have a fair shot at becoming a VP for some high dollar company. It's a place where a non-college graduate can make over 100K a year. It's also the place where you can climb up, AND DOWN, the corporate ladder without even knowing where you are in relevance to the ground - until you hit it! And gravity is a motherf**R!!

I was recently "promoted"!!! I came in to my new position with the expectations of becoming a full blown market lead!! FINALLY!!!! - I'd been working weekends, holidays, Christmas, New Years, Easter, my birthday....ok not my birthday, but most other holidays I would be there to work. I would back up my market leads on the end of the year push and actually take care of multiple markets at the end of the 4th quarter. So, while they were on vacation - I was out running materials and attending all the conference calls and customer face to face meetings and all the other market lead crap that it takes to successfully close out the end of the year projects. In other words - I paid my dues.

What did I get in return? A shot at "The Show"!! I got a call from one of the regional managers that there was help needed in a market and that I had been selected, mostly since I was local, but also because I had worked for him in the past and he knew my work ethic, to come in a help make a market successful. This is what I do! ****excitement in hand**** I went and told my boss, and best friend as a matter of fact, that I want my own shot at the big time. He agreed and made all the proper phone calls and I was in!! Everything worked out the way it was supposed. I was selected and went in for an interview, very non-formal sine I already had the job. I was TOLD I was going to be the new market manager by the old market manager and the regional manager and the hiring manager. I was TOLD that I would be brought in on a lesser position simply to get me in market and then I would have my official title changed when HR caught up with the process. "Does this sound familiar to anyone?" "All we need is for you to help us catch up the NTPs that are behind right now" Being a tean player, I of COURSE agreed!! "I'll do anything you need me to do!!" I came in with my big boy pants ready to lead an entire market. Queue Mighty Mouse Intro "Here I come to save the day!!!"

NOT


Here is where it gets funny - funny queer not funny haha!!

So I come in and immediately I was treated like a low level construction manager right off the bat - in comes the defensive mode bandit - he's an EXTREME SMART ASS!!! I think we all have one of these guys in our midst. He's the guy that's with you right before a bar fight and nowhere around once you start rolling in the dirt.

So now I'm in play doing what I need to right? A week goes by and no mention of my market lead position - 2 weeks, 3 weeks, one month - by this time I'm so at odds with those around me that I don't want to be here anymore. I'm ready to walk out!!! "FUCK THEM I CAN GET A JOB ANYWHERE!!" And thank My Lord Jesus Christ - He has blessed me with a multiple personality disorder known as knowing one's self very very well! So I said to myself, "Self?" That's what I call myself...."self". I said "self -what do you wanna do? There are 2 options - we can either change our surroundings if we're not happy, or we can change our expectations" Tony Robins taught me that in one of his classes that I have attended.

I decided to change my surroundings. I called my hiring manager and he finally, after some conversation and hesitation, he admitted to me getting screwed. Although I must admit that there were a few short seconds where I thought he was going to turn on me and get mad for actually calling them on it!! :( Somethings were misstated without me being there and somethings were done on a wish and a prayer and not on what was REALLY available. Long story short - The position I was hired for is no longer there because the person that is in that position was hired 2 weeks before I interviewed. It happened to be one of my close friends and an extreme Christian so I am glad he has the position! That still does not help me though. Although he admitted to screwing me inadvertently, and has given his blessing for me to reach out to HR and try and get a remote position on a higher management level, I now have no where to go because I personally filled my previous slot in another project with a good close personal friend of mine and can no longer rescind my move over to this new project; PLUS - there are now no more positions that I am qualified to do remotely across the country!! I'm in serious trouble here!! I've worked my ASS OFF for the past 7 years to get where I am and I am seriously looking at the possibility of getting all that taken away from me. I have been unemployed for 45 days, my son is now living with me, I took a big vacation and I am running low on change - not cash - I mean I running low on change!!! I HAVE NO MONEY!!!

As you can probably tell, this is NOT a place to be. I now have a legitimate complaint and a serious weed up my ass!! Here is the reality of it from my point of view:
1. I was just demoted without deserving it.
2. I was just lied to without deserving it.
3. I just had my salary cut by 20K/yr because of the cost of living in The South - "God bless the South" and was not told about it.
4. I came in with an attitude to take over the world as king and now I am on the wall being asked to raise one of the ladders while the people above me are throwing stones and hot oil all over me. At least I've already passed the inner range of the archers right?

WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? Ummmm.....he would NEVER have gone in to Telecom!!!! Ok, so now I have to decide on my own and not base my decision on any precedent set in MY life because I've never liked a company as much as I do the one I am currently working for!!

Upon talking to my line managers, I get the sense that I can either be a good little CM and shut up or Ic an complain and either get fired or quit.

This is the point of all this mumbo jumbo -

I am now faced with an obvious choice. What to do? Do I stay on as a lower level CM or do I demand to get moved into a upper level management role based on the mistake that was done?

Sometimes - you just have to have a beer!! And I had SEVERAL pondering the thought of quitting and telling them to go F themselves. Thank God I am grown up now and have a son that I truly love and want around...so quitting is no longer an option. I was now only faced with one option, I have to go back an reconsider the nature of my relationship with my company and coworkers that I've pissed off because of my poor attitude the last month. DAMN!!! ****feeling of despair and wanting to jump off a bridge over a major interstate during rush hour overcomes me**** I HATE APOLOGIZING!!! Not because I'm above it, but because I make DAMNED sure that I cross my T's and dot my i's BEFORE I OPEN MY MOUTH!! This was NOT my fault, but I am still AT FAULT!! SPLAT!!! I am now the bug and have accepted it.

Guys - this is telecom! Things are just not fair sometimes!! I went from making it into upper level management by doing everything I was asked to do and then some with multiple letters of recommendation from multiple markets serving multiple regional managers to a CMII position without being told or given a choice!! Is this fair? NO!! Am I going to quit - NOPE!! I'm a team player and God has a plan. THAT is the ONE THING that saved me. Knowing that I do not know what the plan is makes it easier to deal with the unknown. Loving my industry and knowing that I work for a great company keeps me focused. He has a plan for me and even though I might not know enough to realize what that plan is, I do know He is there and constantly working at it.

So now I go into save my job mode. I call the immediate manager above me and tell him I owe him an apology. I call the guys that I've worked around and apologize to them. I feel SOO MUCH BETTER that I have a great great time over the weekend. I go back in on Monday and all is ok.

Again - this is telecom - if you think you've got it all figured out, you don't! If you throw a fit at every turn, you won't make it. If you complain and complain - you won't make it. Take the good with the bad. If life gives you lemons....trade them for limes and do some tequila shots!!! Whatever it takes - don't quit!! Unless there are circumstances that you KNOW will not get better, do not quit!!

The end? Nope - That's the point of this blog. I'm still here. Am I happy? Yes!! I now know what I have to do. I'm gonna be a CM. And I'll be the best F'n CM they're ever had. Will I get another shot? Of course I will. Them throwing me this curve and me being able to stay with it and succeed will prove to them that I can handle anything they throw at me and do it with a smile. Don't get punked, but consider what will happen if you do the "prideful" thing. Don't mess up everything you're worked for just to save face. My dad was a Kickapoo indian and he used have a saying that he brought wit him from mexico "Mejor aqui corrillo que aqui murio" I hope I spelled that occrectly. "it's betetr for them to say "he ran here" than "he died here". Did I get screwed, of course I did. Do I like, not really, but I will make the best of it. will it get fixed? I hope so. if not, then I've got to work my way back up again, and that's it!!!

god Bless the Telecom Industry and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! ]]> victorlguerrero http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/victorlguerrero/340-today-i-am-bug.html Pim http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/skorts/11-pim.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:04:17 GMT ND-354 compliance data sheets, can I attain ND-354 compliance data sheets, can I attain ]]> skorts http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/skorts/11-pim.html what is the scope in the field of communication these days? http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/mayank030/8-what-scope-field-communication-these-days.html Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:21:32 GMT currently i am pursuing my b.tech final year degree as an electronics & communication engineer. i would like to know from you all that how can i look for good jobs in the the field of communication. ]]> mayank030 http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/mayank030/8-what-scope-field-communication-these-days.html pim test pricing http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/jamm11/7-pim-test-pricing.html Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:39:16 GMT ---Quote (Originally by jamm11)--- How much are carriers paying for pim testing ? ---End Quote---
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]]> jamm11 http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/jamm11/7-pim-test-pricing.html In God we trust? Which God? http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/victorlguerrero/5-god-we-trust-god.html Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:31:33 GMT Hello my fine tethered friends!!

It's me again - V///!!!! In my many travels I have always tried to stay away from the religious and political conversations, mainly because I'm drinking when these conversations come up and they either turn sour or encompass the entire evening, but also out of respect. Being a Christian, I just think that God should stay out of the drinking conversations.

Well.....as luck would have it, I have not been having that kind of luck because I have recently been enticed to make friends with my very FIRST Muslim. I know, I know, "How dare I?" I am a devout Christian and American, but I also am a devout intellictual who hungers for the other side of things. This is one thing, the Muslim religion that is, that has plagued my senses for a long time. I have actually read the Quran a couple times in trying to understand it, but have never really paid attention to most of it. I was always busy think how it sounded so much like the Bible, just with a different guy as the main character. It is very interesting to see where the nuances in life have sent us down 2 very different paths in history. Some may claim that we persecuted them and other that they are just a bunch of Heathens that need to be domesticated. How do we know we are right?

Seriously, how do we know? I have been encountering more and more and more, especially in my own industry and life travels, Non-Christians. There are more agnostic (I will not capitalize these words) and atheists in my last year than in my entire life. There is an extreme amount of people coming in to the US, to stay, that are Non-Christians. My 2 very best friends in the whole world are agnostic, ad I love them dearly.

Personally, I don't understand how this works. I can't see how or why there are so many different religions. In my very narrow, Southern and conservative view, I just think everyone should be Christian and we should all go to church on Sunday and then to the truck stop for a late breakfast and finally end up at the park to play on the swings with dad and Mom walking around still holding hands and laughing at things that we have no idea of because it’s their “Me” time. I think that we should all go to a sort of religious Bible study/Christian educational group on Wednesday nights during the school year in which women dressed in traditional garb swap the shit out of you when you don’t listen or are caught trying to pass little Lisa a note asking her to go out with you when in fact you don’t have a car, a job and much less, ANY MONEY!! But, you still want her to go out with you. I believe in a world that a man goes out with a woman and if he doesn’t, then he knows it’s not a socially accepted thing and keeps it TO HIS FUCKING SELF!!! I believe that God created everything and that the 7 days in which He did it were NOT 24 hrs long. I think that people should say whatever they want, as long as you don’t surse Baby Jesus. I think Christmas should be a joyful birthday celebration for God, not humans and that ALL families should be allowed enough time off of work to get together and spend enough time in one house to bring the soul of that family back into one rhythm that is a coalition of mind and spirit when they return back to work.

I don’t understand why we do what we do, but……..as an American at heart, I have to put aside my personal beliefs and accept what is true. I accept the 2 guys in front of me holding hands and when they kiss, I turn my face and make sure I point out something in a different of interest to my son without him noticing what is going on around him. In the case he does see, I can then explain to him what it is in a way that is informative, but yet skewed enough to allow him to make his own choice but on the side that I think is right. If he is gay when he grows up, then I’ll love him just as much, I don’t have to agree with the whole gay movement in order to be cool with it. I have gay friends that I call “Princess” and “Butch” that know exactly where I stand but also know that if they’re in trouble they could call me and I would help then with an open heart. They’re people and they deserve my respect as people.

I accept that there are hundreds of different points of view when it comes to religion. I accept that people are racists against me simply for my color even though I am far more educated and can speak not only their language better than they can, but 2 others as well. I accept the fact that some Americans think that the “face” of America is a white guy or girl even though my parents renounced their home country and became full blown American Citizens and that this country was built on immigration and foreign capitol. I accept that when they say,” you’re taking our jobs” that they don’t mean me. They mean the face of “America”. I accept the fact that sometimes I’ll be pulled by a cop and be made to kneel 3 hrs in a 3 piece suit driving an Audi just because he doesn’t think that my accent matches my name. This is my country and as much as I disagree with some of the little things, I have to accept them because it’s the big picture that’s important.

What I can’t accept is that our fear of Islamaphobia is making us skew our Constitutional view to a place where we ONLY accept certain religions and not all. Either we close our borders to any and all immigration and religions and bring every home and let all of the countries that we support be responsible for their own shit, OR, we shut the hell up and be REAL AMERICANS. Grow some balls and back the constitution instead of our personal beliefs. There is a prepaid plan out there that is called Americanization that we all need to subscribe to if you’re in this country, and it’s not about color, money or religion. It’s about America! It’s not a quad band service that you can use in all countries. It comes with unlimited minutes, but it also comes with a major contract that needs to be followed to the Constitutional letter.

As a Christian and former 9-11 attendee, I cannot imagine a worse place in the world to put a mosque. As an American who believes in his constitution and cherishes his right to vote, I can’t imagine a worse place not to.

TO HELL WITH SPELLCHECK I BLOG IN THE RAW!!!

V/// ]]> victorlguerrero http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/victorlguerrero/5-god-we-trust-god.html And we complain about Traffic? HA!! http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/victorlguerrero/3-we-complain-about-traffic-ha.html Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:34:37 GMT It's funny how we go about our daily routine and get so MAAAAD whenever we have to make a right turn and can't beccause of ":grid lock"! Well my fine tethered friends, read below and pray to god that we're not in China!!!

This is an excerpt from a post I found on the web

"Closing off parts of the thruway ground everything down to a snail's pace. Some sections reported speeds of no more than a third of a mile a day, if at all." WorldBlog

It detailed how the Chinese had a 10+ day long traffic jam. I don't know about you, but WTH!!! 10 DAYS!!! Having 4 BILLION screaming Chinese people to call, don't you think some of them could have called a relative and gotten a ride home? I understand the truckers having to stay, but GEEZ!!! I'm SURE I'm simplifying the case, but I just think it's hilarious. Imagine yourself stuck for 10 days,....ON A ROAD....with a bunch of PEOPLE!!! AHHH!!! The mere thought makes me want to flip the driver next to me off! :)

While I always make sure I stay close to the office I'm assigned, I did have a minor traffic experienc on the way to NJ. I left DC around 4 PM one fine Sunday afternoon with the xpectation of traveling my 186 miles in about 3.5-4 hrs. I had a coke in hand and my MP3s on my phone. NOT my I-phone, my REGULAR phone. I can't STAND I-phones. They're a cult, but that's another post.

Anyway - after the first 30-40 miles at around 85 mph, we came to SCREEEEEACHING halt and there I was. For the next 8 HOURS, I crept and sputtered from South of Philly to NJ. Yes, it took me 8 hrs to make a 3 hr drive. I rolled in just before midnight and couldn't be happier to get out of my truck!

So - stay away from Chinese Freeways!!! They SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

(To hell with Spell check - I blog in the RAW!!!)

V/// ]]> victorlguerrero http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/victorlguerrero/3-we-complain-about-traffic-ha.html Just Talking Trash!! http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/victorlguerrero/2-just-talking-trash.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:30:54 GMT Ok, So this is my VERY first attempt EVER at posting a blog. I guess the format would be to talk about whatever the fuckl I want to talk about,... Ok,

So this is my VERY first attempt EVER at posting a blog. I guess the format would be to talk about whatever the fuckl I want to talk about, so I'm gonna talk about USA Today. In this morning's issue, there was all kinds of crap on the fron page. It ranged from Heart making thier 16th album, to Jeff Fisher's and Vibnce Young's love affair for each other and, get this, a dog CANCER WALK!!!! It wasn't until the FITH page that I got to the meat of it all. you know, things like 800 THOUSAND stranded in Pakistan due to floods and the Egg Scare in the states. WTF is wrong with us? Do we really think that putting our heads in the sand will carry us through whatever crisis we're going through as Americans at the time? I can't stand that. This is a REAL news paper, supposedly reporting on REAL news and all the post on the front page are things that sell. Well, I think that the one that has sold out is USA Today. I just can't see me reading another copy of it while drinking my morning cup of Joe.

Thoughts? ]]> victorlguerrero http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/victorlguerrero/2-just-talking-trash.html My first blog. http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/tower-monkey/1-my-first-blog.html Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:55:40 GMT Cool, a place where I can blog free. Now, what do I have to say....... Cool, a place where I can blog free.

Now, what do I have to say....... ]]> Tower Monkey http://www.thewirelessregister.com/forums/blogs/tower-monkey/1-my-first-blog.html