Consultant pilot fish picks up a small industrial company as a client, and finds that his predecessor has engaged in a few rather questionable practices at the site.

“The latest of these surfaced when the client complained that one of the network drops had stopped working,” says fish. “I’d not looked closely at the wiring onsite yet — alligator, swamp, etc. — so I took a closer look.

“I found I wished I hadn’t.”

Fish discovers that all the wires for the site simply pop out of the floor in the wiring closet. There’s no jack panel, no labels or marking, and they’re plugged into a consumer-grade switch.

To trace the bad wire, fish will have to get under the floor. No problem, the client tells him, then moves a rug and pulls up a trapdoor in the floor.

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