Work has gotten really hard this last week. Both projects took a turn for the worse, and I ended up being swamped from every angle.
First, HCA Park Plaza.
The cabling work has been a complete mess, with incomplete reporting leaving the final state of cabling in question. With a physical inspection, many drops were missing or located in the wrong place. We need more material for the cross connects, and there is still a lot of cleanup to be done in the status of some items.
Then, Cornerstone was added to the mix of the half-updated information. It is a sensitive subject, and all communication needs to go through the corporate team, However, we had some communication in-flight, and that was determined to be out of bounds for the new regime they decided the same day. Jim leaned in and took over for all practical purposes, which he ended up taking the exact steps I had planned out as a path forward. Then, realized he needed to make sure I stayed the face of the project 5 mins before the meeting with the facility.
I was scheduled to go to Waycross to observe, and that was cancelled at the last minute because of Covid protocols for the facility. Got lucky, but still completely unprepared for the go-live and no way to get better prepared.
On to Royal.
The vanities will not really accommodate the planned screen sizes in the PAX cabins. The 40" will hang over a bit, and the 43" will not be practical at all without becoming unstable with use. Further, there is a dry dock coming, and it would be nice to avoid having to throw out a lot of work just completed. Instead of simply getting design approval for using only the 40" TVs, Marcel wants to go down 5 rabbit holes to solve the underlying problem of an unsupported Nano system. He even wants to go into the case of modifying the vanity in the timeline before return to service.
The purchasing has been chronically late because of the team not having a final decision on a couple of items, and things getting overlapped with various purchasing schemes to use other equipment vendors. I have some stuff in the warehouse, but I am not certain I can get all of it gathered to make it easy and go out the door when needed. I have TVs ready to go, but the ITCC equipment is going to be behind.
Needless to say, all the compounding issues have overloaded both work streams. I was at wit's end on Friday.
Now that I have taken some time to re-organize everything in my head and on paper, I don't feel as bad, but there is still a ton of work to do. If I have to work overnight, so be it, but a lot of this is not something I can readily perform independently. I have zero time to coordinate and babysit everything at once, but that is my challenge for next week.