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was it a waste?

We arrive at the job site to trace cables and run cables and generally clean up. Nearly the firstthing we did caused a significant network to ...go away. So we scramble tryingto figure out how what we did could possibly have cause what we now see. 5 hours scheduled on site and 4 hours later it turns out a cable that was working just gave up on us. Not fun. I asked if that meant we essentially accomplished nothing and the reply, which made sense, was at least we caused and solved a failure that could easily have happened at a much more chaotic time.