So I’ve made a few attempts at this story, and as one person put it, I need to be aware of where I’m posting this and get to the point where I ended up getting fucked in the arse so hard I could barely walk after, as quickly as possible without any superfluous detail.
I’ve been struggling to describe this incident in a coherent way, so here’s my second attempt, I’m still trying to decide what’s relevant and what’s not. So let me know.
Early on in my career I was working for a small firm that had a particular piece of equipment that was causing issues. It was a very niche item. It was old and had been modified extensively in its career, and whatever condition it had been when it was initially manufactured it wasn’t in that state now.
For a period of several months this piece of equipment had been causing ever escalating problems, and the company hierarchy was spending more and more time, in either getting a maintenance schedule put in place for it or finding a replacement. This had mixed results.