hard time

Leave the house early, to drive to the one time workplace to supply some technical help to one of the trainees from long ago. She is now a master of her trade and she has married and is expecting her first child. She will stop working for six months and then her husband will take over the child minding duties.

But the software does not work. An American company, an American printer and the communication does not work because the two firms are competing.

Arrive at the old place of work,

Take out the bag with the cameras from under the seat, and the bag with the bottle of spirits, a present for the technicians, the one time colleagues. Walk around the buildings, and go to the workshops. There is nobody at the machines, it is nine, the official break time. Knock on the door, go in, and there are far more people there than expected there, the bottle is too small.

Chat, and suddenly there is a plate with sausages and sauerkraut on the table. Say thank you, and, see there, it is all really tasty.

Leave at ten to ten and go to the gate of the reactor. Show the identity papers and the covid documents and   get a pass for the day. Go down to the building and take the lift up to second floor.

And spend all day trying to find out what is wrong. This system will just not work. Why do people in competition with each other give their customers such a hard time?