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Chapter 3

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Gordon checked off the item on his tablet.

As the seconds ticked by, the motor grew louder, its sound becoming increasingly abnormal.

But I could not rush Gordon, since he would blow up again if I did. All I could do was silently urge Zeke on.

“Come on, Zeke. Hurry!” I thought.

Halfway through the assessment, I spotted Zeke running towards me with a cardboard box in his arms.

“Ryan!”

When Zeke reached me, he bent over and gasped for breath.

“The bearing… I got the bearing!”

I took the box and opened it to check. It was the right one.

I had just started to breathe a sigh of relief when something else went wrong.

Joel Quimby, the warehouse manager, stormed over and immediately started yelling.

“You little punk! Who said you could take that? Stop right there!

“How dare you take the bearing before filling out the parts requisition form! You think you own this warehouse? Do you have any respect for the rules?”

Zeke shrank half a step behind me in fear, so I quickly stepped forward and tried to smooth things over.

“I sent him to get it, Mr. Quimby. The motor is about to burn out. It’s an emergency repair. We’ll fill out the form afterwards—”

“Afterwards?”

Joel hurled the form at my face.

“The warehouse has its own rules. If you can’t produce a completed parts requisition form today, return that bearing. I’ll lock it back on the shelf myself!”

Zeke spoke quietly beside me.

“Mr. Quimby, this really is an emergency. Look at the motor. It’s already smoking this badly…”

He pointed at the machine behind us, which was still belching smoke.

“I don’t care how bad it is! Everything gets done by the book!” Joel shouted.

The motor belched out another plume of black smoke as Gordon, clutching his tablet, impatiently urged me on.

“Ryan, you’ve only made it through fifteen items of the shutdown risk assessment. Can you focus? You’re dragging this out!”

Caught between them, I swallowed my anger and said to Zeke, “Zeke, fill out the form.”

I pulled a ballpoint pen from my pocket and handed it to him, then added in a low voice, “Fill it out quickly. Make sure your handwriting is clear, and don’t miss anything.”

Then I turned back and continued the risk assessment with Gordon.

“Ryan…” Zeke said hesitantly. “The department head has been in meetings all day. I checked with the office, and they said his phone is on silent. He won’t be able to approve it until tomorrow…”

“Tomorrow? The motor won’t hold out for another thirty minutes,” I thought.

Joel overheard us and gave a cold chuckle.

“You hear that? Without the department head’s signature, that form is worthless. Give me the bearing.”

He reached for the box in Zeke’s hands, but my hand shot out before I could think and clamped down on the box.

“Mr. Quimby,” I said, looking him straight in the eye. “Hold on.”

My mind raced, and I spoke rapidly.

“Zeke, find Laura. Tell her the department head is in a meeting and can’t be reached, and the motor is about to burn out. Ask if she can sign the form. She has his backup signing authority.”

Zeke sprang to his feet and took off running.

Joel started after Zeke, but I caught him by the sleeve and held him back.

“Mr. Quimby, let him go. He’ll definitely be back within ten minutes. We have the form and the signature. Everything we need. Just wait here and let me use the bearing in the meantime, all right?”

Joel snorted.

“No. The form has to come back first. Don’t even think about replacing that bearing!”

Gordon’s impatient voice came from behind me again.

“Ryan, are you doing the risk assessment or not? If you won’t, I’ll report you to the Environmental, Health and Safety Department for refusing to cooperate!”

“Fine! I’ll do it!”

I spun around, went back to Gordon, and quickly scanned the remaining items.

“Item twenty: on-site safety monitor. That’s you, Gordon. Sign it.”

Gordon took the tablet and slowly traced his signature across the screen with a finger.

Just then, my phone buzzed with a message from Zeke.

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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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