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They Demanded Forms While the Motor Burned
They Demanded Forms While the Motor Burned
ผู้แต่ง: Coconut Scared of Cold

Chapter 1

ผู้เขียน: Coconut Scared of Cold
My walkie-talkie suddenly crackled to life.

“Ryan, Motor No. 3 is smoking. Get over here now!”

I grabbed my toolbox and sprinted over with only one thought on my mind: cut the power, disconnect the wiring, and find the fault.

When I reached the entrance, I could already smell something burning.

The motor was at the far end of the factory floor. Through the gaps between the rows of equipment, I could see a faint wisp of bluish smoke.

I quickened my pace towards the motor.

Suddenly, a hand shot out across my chest and stopped me.

Desmond Webbe, the production supervisor, took his time as he asked, “Where’s the emergency repair form?”

I paused, caught off guard.

“Mr. Webbe, the motor is smoking. I need to get over there and—”

He gave me a sidelong glance.

“Who gave you permission to touch it without a work order?”

I patiently explained, “I haven’t touched anything yet. I need to get over there and assess the situation first.”

“Assessing the situation is part of the maintenance process. Any maintenance work requires an emergency repair form to be filled out in advance and signed by the supervisor on duty before it can begin.”

He rattled off the regulations without even blinking.

My heart sank.

Desmond and the other supervisors had always had a chip on their shoulders about our electrical crew.

When the equipment was operating normally, we would stay in the control room on standby. As far as they were concerned, we were getting paid seven or eight thousand dollars just to sit around and do nothing all day.

That was why Desmond and the others seemed to come alive whenever a piece of equipment broke down.

Procedures, signatures, approvals, and confirmations were things they normally never enforced. Yet the moment something needed fixing, those same rules suddenly became sacred law.

While we would be frantic to get the problem fixed, they would leisurely flip through their paperwork, unable to hide their smug smiles. They just wanted to watch us squirm.

“Mr. Webbe,” I said, keeping my voice as steady as I could. “The motor is smoking. Take a whiff. That smell isn’t normal. If we delay any longer, this could turn into a serious problem.”

“All the more reason to fill out the form first.”

Desmond did not budge. He pulled a pen from his pocket and held it out to me.

“The forms are in the control room. Fill one out, and I’ll sign it. Just go and come right back. It’ll only take a few minutes.”

A few minutes?

I did the math in my head. The control room was about 1,300 feet away. Even if I filled out the form and ran back as fast as I could, it would take at least ten minutes.

In that time, the motor temperature could spike from 212 to 572 degrees Fahrenheit.

Desmond glanced at his watch.

“If you go now, you can make it back in six minutes. I’m timing you.”

I stared at him, and he stared back.

The bluish smoke behind him was growing thicker by the second.

I could not afford to keep arguing with him, or a minor problem could turn into a major one.

With gritted teeth, I turned and sprinted back to the control room for the repair order. I grabbed a pen and started filling it out.

As soon as I finished, I raced back to the factory floor. I could see Desmond still standing there from a distance.

I ran up to him and slapped the form against his chest, too breathless to speak.

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  • They Demanded Forms While the Motor Burned   Chapter 9

    After a brief pause, I continued, “In other words, every word spoken in the production area by me, Mr. Webbe, Gordon, Mr. Quimby, and my apprentice Zeke was transmitted through the radio to the control room and recorded by its system.”Harrison’s eyes lit up.“Play it.”I lowered my head, found the recording on my phone, and hit play before connecting it to the conference room’s Bluetooth speaker.When the recording ended, a deathly silence fell over the room.Desmond, Gordon, and Joel sat there, pale-faced and trembling.Harrison’s face turned livid as he slammed his palm down on the table.“The motor was on fire, and you were still telling an electrician that the procedures hadn’t been completed?“You three are clever, all right. You knew that as long as you followed the procedures, anything that went wrong wouldn’t be on you. The electrician would take the fall. You take the little bit of authority you have and use it to throw your weight around!“The plant was down for fiv

  • They Demanded Forms While the Motor Burned   Chapter 8

    After a brief silence, Harrison picked up the desk phone and pressed a button.“Pull up yesterday’s footage from Production Area Three and put it on the big screen.”I had already restored power to the plant overnight.The projector screen in the conference room lit up, and the footage began to play.The image was clear enough to show everyone’s movements and positions, but we could not make out what anyone was saying.All that could be seen was me running back and forth.Desmond, Gordon, and Joel immediately seemed emboldened.“Mr. Zeller,” Desmond said calmly. “The footage does show what happened, but it also shows Ryan spending almost eight minutes, between 2:45 and 2:53 p.m., looking at the tablet with Gordon instead of going to the electrical panel.“If he truly believed the situation was an emergency, why didn’t he cut the power during those eight minutes? Why did he go along with the assessment instead?”He raised his head and looked at me.“That tells us that, at that

  • They Demanded Forms While the Motor Burned   Chapter 7

    After hearing Desmond out, Harrison said nothing. Instead, he turned to me.“Ryan, you heard what he said. Do you have anything to say?”I looked at Desmond, who kept his head down and flipped through the documents as if the matter had nothing to do with him anymore.“Mr. Zeller,” I said. “Mr. Webbe claims I didn’t cut the power immediately and that I lingered at the scene. But he left out one crucial detail, the person who stopped me from cutting the power.“The motor was already smoking when I reached the scene. I rushed onto the factory floor and headed straight for the electrical panel to cut the power. But Mr. Webbe stopped me and told me I had to fill out the emergency repair form first.”I went through everything that had happened that day, one thing at a time, starting with the emergency repair form, followed by the shutdown risk assessment, the parts requisition form, and the disassembly risk assessment.I recounted how Desmond had stopped me, how Gordon had shoved me, a

  • They Demanded Forms While the Motor Burned   Chapter 6

    My voice came out calmer than I had expected.“Mr. Zeller, Motor No. 3 in Production Area Three burned out, taking power down across the entire plant.”“You were on site, and you still let it get to this point?” Harrison’s voice rose sharply.“Ryan, I don’t care what it takes. Find out right now when we can restore power and when we can get production back up and running. I’ve got a major order due, and the deadline is right around the corner. We can’t afford to lose a single day!”I sighed. “We’re looking at three days at the earliest.”Harrison roared, “Three days? That’ll cost me a hundred million dollars! “Notify everyone. We’ll hold an accountability meeting in the main conference room at 9 a.m. tomorrow. You, Desmond, Gordon, and Joel must all be there. I want to know exactly who was responsible for letting this motor burn out.”With that, he hung up.Desmond went pale, while Gordon slumped to the floor.As for Joel, his lips trembled as he repeated the same words ove

  • They Demanded Forms While the Motor Burned   Chapter 5

    All the emergency lights came on.“W-What happened?” Gordon asked, his voice trembling.No one answered him.Joel’s voice came out hoarse.“T-This is impossible… We haven’t even finished the procedure…”“Mr. Lennox,” Gordon said, his tone suddenly strained. “What happened? The motor burned out? We can just replace it with a new one, right?”Desmond cleared his throat.“It’s nothing. It’s just one motor. What’s the big deal? We’ll have it fixed in no time. Everyone, stay calm. There’s no need to panic.”I stood where I was, leaning against the electrical panel without saying a word.Relief colored Joel’s voice as he said, “Yes, that’s right. Mr. Lennox is here. He’s been an electrician for over ten years. Replacing a motor is a piece of cake for him, right?“Mr. Lennox, get to work. As for the parts… we’ll sort out the paperwork afterwards.”I laughed out of sheer frustration.“Just moments ago, you chased Zeke halfway across the factory floor, saying he couldn’t take the be

  • They Demanded Forms While the Motor Burned   Chapter 4

    I opened the message from Zeke, and my blood ran cold.[Ryan, Laura says this form is in the wrong format. She says the requisition form we’re using is the old version. They switched to a new version last month, so the old one isn’t valid anymore. We have to print the new form and fill it out again.]I thought, “When did they switch to the new version? No one’s ever told us about it.”All the blank forms in the control room were the old version. There were hundreds of them stuffed into the drawers, and I had never heard a word about them being invalid.My finger hovered over the screen as I struggled to figure out what to reply.I did not know when Desmond had appeared in front of me until he spoke.“Ryan.”I looked up and saw him holding a form.“Replacing the bearing is considered equipment disassembly work.”He held the form out to me, his tone calm and unhurried.“You haven’t completed the disassembly risk assessment. This requires a separate form and approval. Fill it ou

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