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Post by steve on Apr 3, 2024 12:03:14 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"Appeals are slow by their very nature. Appeals are very non-personal by nature."
"Case-in-point: I'm never going to get 'my day in court.' Instead, I'm going to have an 'appeal advocate' state my case for me. No remote participation. No direct participation. This is how things work in the Empire."
"I met with my Appeals Advocate remotely today. I was told the general timeline and given an overview of what to expect. In short, no one is holding out much hope of anything. Only a very small percentage of appeals are granted and only because there was some sort of egregious personal involvement."
"The AA told me that the switch was purely algorithm and those are usually very unlikely to be reversed. There's some leeway on the credit served but not much. The reasoning is brutal: The IKN wanted to get rid of me after the injury and the IKG was only interested in taking me if they could have me for at least a certain amount of time. That's where the 'half-credit' comes from because, otherwise, the thinking goes that I would leave the moment I received my full citizenship."
"This entire situation is all very frustrating."
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Post by steve on Apr 5, 2024 11:38:35 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"The facility is large. The facility is isolated."
"And the facility staff knows it. And the facility staff abuses that fact to the hilt."
"I think that I've written before that Klingons (*MOST* Klingons) have this unhealthy fetish for Terran pasta. I'm not making that up. It's a thing. Not necessarily as popular as that stupid show with the girls and the weekly decisions (*DON'T* get me started) but it's still pretty popular. The reasons for it are varied, from the sarcastic to the legitimately valid."
"Anyway, every week we have a pasta night. Dead serious. The leadership absolutely loves it. This week it was something called 'fetticini alfredo' (I think that's how it's spelt). It wasn't bad. Anka had two plates worth and also had whatever I didn't finish."
"At least it was hand-cooked 'real food,' which is something that I'm kind of getting used to. My bowels are still adapting, though."
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Post by steve on Apr 7, 2024 8:46:22 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"I'm not just rummaging through boxes. Not anymore. They've got me performing all sorts of odd tasks around the facility. More or less, they've teamed me up with Anka. It sort of makes sense because, with the facility being as large as it is, you should always have someone else around in case something bad happens. Still, I can't help but wonder if they've paired up 'the two half-breeds' on purpose."
"We inspected warehouse equipment today. What business do I have in inspecting this kind of machinery? I guess that it is my business now. Admittedly, it's all pretty automated: Take a tablet computer, follow it's instructions, take pictures of things and check the metrics of other things. Report it all and someone else who is way smarter makes sure that nothing looks out of the ordinary."
"I'm getting used to wearing a 'space suit.' I won't say that you need to plan your bodily movements ahead of time but you do have to be mindful of how you move, especially if you want to make 'nimble' moves. The type that we wear aren't actually space suits but they are technically classified as such. Spacewalks in these wouldn't last too long (and would be uncomfortable from the moment you did step out into actual space) but inside of a minimum atmosphere (and equally minimum temperature) environment? They'll protect you for the entire shift."
"One thing about these warehouses that is kind of weird is the plumbing or lack thereof. There are toilets, to be certain, but they're all stand-alone toilets. They're just really sophisticated bedpans. They have to be cleaned out on occasion... AND GUESS WHAT MY NEW JOB REQUIRES *ME* TO DO?!"
"Citizenship better be worth it."
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Post by steve on Apr 9, 2024 12:57:45 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"There are a lot of storage buildings at this facility."
"Some of the storage buildings have no personnel in them at all. While they may have a few rooms in them that are habitable, these are rooms that you wouldn't want to sleep in or work in unless you are wearing a space suit. These are called 'dead storage sites.'"
"Then there are storage buildings that do have personnel in them that are routinely there. These do have a few rooms that are used as offices, a break room, etc. so forth. These are called 'working storage sites.'"
"Anka is currently training me to be a 'Building Maintenance Tech I.' Essentially, I'm a janitor. A glorified janitor."
"Because of one back injury -- WHICH I'VE COMPLETELY RECOVERED FROM WEEKS AGO, BY THE WAY! -- I'm now a janitor for the remainder of my service to the Imperial Government until I get my citizenship. Lovely."
"Buildings have to be personally inspected. That's one of my jobs. Drive around the outside of the facility and make sure some asteroid hasn't struck it or a wall hasn't collapsed. Don't they have surveillance cameras or flyable drones for that?"
"However, then I have all of these other tasks to perform. Do the outside doors open and shut securely? Any squeaking? Any overt stiffness? Is there any excess surface debris to sweep away?"
"There's at least 80 tasks that I have to perform at each of these facilities. And it's a daily task."
"I might just go back to the ROZ. This isn't worth it."
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Post by steve on Apr 11, 2024 11:58:39 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"Let's talk toilets for a moment."
"OK, the main buildings have modern plumbing. Poop goes down the hole, gets collected, gets incinerated. Pee goes down the hole, gets collected, gets... 'recycled' and, before you even say anything... Well, that's been the standard for quite a long while. Every time you pour yourself a glass of water, just remember that a good chunk of that is filtered pee. Gross, yes, but absolutely necessary given that water is heavy and is hard to transport (not to mention expensive). And it's not like you can 'taste' anything weird."
"At the storage facilities, though, all of the toilets are 'stand-alones': There's no plumbing. The toilet is, literally, all that there is. Unscrew a few nuts and bolts (and unplug it from the wall) and you could place these toilets literally ANYWHERE so long as you can plug them back in to get electricity. There are even some models that have their own battery packs so that you don't even need that."
"These toilets are wired so that they report when they're close to full. I go out to the facility and clean them. These toilets compress all waste into 'bricks' and you take the bricks and then incinerate them. Before you ask, 'why not just have them be incinerated automatically by the toilet?' That's a good question. Truth is, most people don't like sitting on a toilet that has a disruptor that could malfunction and accidentally melt half of your butt off. Besides, the more ecologically-minded can do a lot of things with the bricks and, quite honestly... It's just cheaper. And the government likes cheap."
"In an ideal world, you collect bricks when the toilet is nearly full but we don't live in that world. Instead, even if a toilet hasn't been cleaned in a while, you still have to clean it per regulations. These toilets aren't good at compacting partial bricks and they're more like 'chunks' than bricks."
"That's what I've been doing lately; Cleaning toilets. Joy."
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Post by trynda1701 on Apr 12, 2024 9:46:20 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN[Note - The text has been edited for clarity and context. It has been edited with contemporary Terran audiences in mind. Idioms and local references have been changed to the most appropriate Terran equivalent.] "Let's talk toilets for a moment."
"OK, the main buildings have modern plumbing. Poop goes down the hole, gets collected, gets incinerated. Pee goes down the hole, gets collected, gets... 'recycled' and, before you even say anything... Well, that's been the standard for quite a long while. Every time you pour yourself a glass of water, just remember that a good chunk of that is filtered pee. Gross, yes, but absolutely necessary given that water is heavy and is hard to transport (not to mention expensive). And it's not like you can 'taste' anything weird."
"At the storage facilities, though, all of the toilets are 'stand-alones': There's no plumbing. The toilet is, literally, all that there is. Unscrew a few nuts and bolts (and unplug it from the wall) and you could place these toilets literally ANYWHERE so long as you can plug them back in to get electricity. There are even some models that have their own battery packs so that you don't even need that."
"These toilets are wired so that they report when they're close to full. I go out to the facility and clean them. These toilets compress all waste into 'bricks' and you take the bricks and then incinerate them. Before you ask, 'why not just have them be incinerated automatically by the toilet?' That's a good question. Truth is, most people don't like sitting on a toilet that has a disruptor that could malfunction and accidentally melt half of your butt off. Besides, the more ecologically-minded can do a lot of things with the bricks and, quite honestly... It's just cheaper. And the government likes cheap."
"In an ideal world, you collect bricks when the toilet is nearly full but we don't live in that world. Instead, even if a toilet hasn't been cleaned in a while, you still have to clean it per regulations. These toilets aren't good at compacting partial bricks and they're more like 'chunks' than bricks."
"That's what I've been doing lately; Cleaning toilets. Joy." It could be worse, per Lower Decks. She could be cleaning the holodeck filters!
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Post by steve on Apr 13, 2024 12:43:41 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"I don't just clean toilets. Oh no. Being a storage facility maintainer has you doing so much more than that. They're just giving me the most horrible jobs first; The ones that they don't want to do."
"I'm keeping all of the safe rooms at these buildings up-to-code as well. Drive around, make sure that all these safe rooms are clear of clutter, the doors open up as they should, they should have all of their supplies, you have to make test calls from them... And they can't get dusty, so guess who vacuums them out? Yup! That's me!"
"We had another Terran pasta night again. Something called 'lasanga' [ED NOTE: We left the spelling as is; It should be 'lasagna.'] It wasn't bad. Better than starship food, if I'm being completely honest."
"The people here are nice enough. It's just... There's so much space. I'm not used to it. I'm still not used to it. A starship is very compact. You're rubbing shoulders with everyone. This entire facility, converted into one massive hangar, could house dozens of starships. Each building is large and the space inbetween buildings is large and... I don't know. It's just so different. It's not like being on a starship."
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Post by steve on Apr 15, 2024 12:17:03 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"Well, that was weird."
"I'm almost ready to go out today on my list of tasks when I'm called into public relations. Not personnel resources; public relations."
"They sat me down and wanted to make sure that all of my documentation from personnel resources were in order. I'm like, 'Isn't that what personnel resources is for?' They wanted to verify my parents' names, where I went to school, my precise height... Compare photos of me for when my IKG badges were taken to what I look like now (ARE YOU F**KING KIDDING ME?!! *YOU* TOOK THEM ONLY A FEW WEEKS AGO!!). They wanted my opinion on just about every contemporary topic imaginable; Political, scientific, sports, entertainment... On a good many of them, I'm like, 'I don't know. Half of my day is work. I don't have time to read the news and, when I do, it comes from government sources."
"And then, after all of that, they're just like... 'OK, thanks. You can get back to work.' Sure, now that you've wasted a third of my day... Let me just go back to work as though nothing ever happened. I didn't get a whole lot accomplished today but Anka told me not to worry about it and just chalk it up to the IKG being the IKG."
"And here I thought only the IKN was this incompetent."
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Post by brickwall on Apr 15, 2024 16:08:58 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN[Note - The text has been edited for clarity and context. It has been edited with contemporary Terran audiences in mind. Idioms and local references have been changed to the most appropriate Terran equivalent.] "Well, that was weird."
"I'm almost ready to go out today on my list of tasks when I'm called into public relations. Not personnel resources; public relations."
"They sat me down and wanted to make sure that all of my documentation from personnel resources were in order. I'm like, 'Isn't that what personnel resources is for?' They wanted to verify my parents' names, where I went to school, my precise height... Compare photos of me for when my IKG badges were taken to what I look like now (ARE YOU F**KING KIDDING ME?!! *YOU* TOOK THEM ONLY A FEW WEEKS AGO!!). They wanted my opinion on just about every contemporary topic imaginable; Political, scientific, sports, entertainment... On a good many of them, I'm like, 'I don't know. Half of my day is work. I don't have time to read the news and, when I do, it comes from government sources."
"And then, after all of that, they're just like... 'OK, thanks. You can get back to work.' Sure, now that you've wasted a third of my day... Let me just go back to work as though nothing ever happened. I didn't get a whole lot accomplished today but Anka told me not to worry about it and just chalk it up to the IKG being the IKG."
"And here I thought only the IKN was this incompetent." Oh that poor lady! Seriously, my heart goes out to her going through this nonsense....whether in space or on this world. Ugh!
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Post by steve on Apr 17, 2024 11:45:59 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"Another day of work. Got a lot accomplished. It's a little sad to mention but I'm beginning to get the hang of being a glorified janitor."
"Wake up, shower, get dressed, eat 1m (First Meal), attend morning meeting, get my work assignment, do job, find someplace to eat for 2M (Second Meal), do more job, complete work assignment for the day, attend evening meeting (if applicable), eat 3M (third meal), shower, perform PDs (Personal Duties, such as paying bills, laundry, keeping room clean, etc.), a little down time for social activities (sometimes but not a lot), bed."
"Wash, rinse, repeat."
"Yeah, some days are different than others but, if I was forced to tell someone what the new routine was... Well, there it is: The New Normal."
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Post by steve on Apr 17, 2024 11:48:15 GMT -7
Oh that poor lady! Seriously, my heart goes out to her going through this nonsense....whether in space or on this world. Ugh! Without revealing too much... Things always tend to work themselves out...
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Post by steve on Apr 19, 2024 11:50:38 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"I've written this before but the only way to the facility is by rail. Yes, technically, there's a road but no one uses it and you wouldn't want to use it anyway since the road is very rough (not paved but essentially a dirt road). We get rail deliveries every few days and today was one of those days."
"On most days, I don't even know about them. However, there are days when the Receiving Department at the rail station needs extra help. Today was one of those days."
"The Receiving Department is set up to deal with most deliveries but, on occasion, we get a really big delivery. Therefore, all of the normal rules get tossed and we're just pulling stuff off of the train as quickly as we can because the train has to quickly turn around and return. It's not like we can detach cars and give them back the cars when we're done. People have already suggested that and there are whole host of reasons why they can't do that."
"Anyway, we were pulling stuff out of train cars for about half the day and just stacking them anywhere. Pull it off the train, scan it to make sure it's ours, place it aside. Wash, rinse, repeat. After the train leaves, the receiving department gets to work organizing all of that stuff. You know... I know someone who knows a thing or two about inventory management... Just saying..."
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Post by steve on Apr 21, 2024 10:23:21 GMT -7
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"Remember what happened to me a while back? Got pulled into public relations, had to answer all sorts of weird questions, verify all sorts of information..."
"It just happened to Anka. She was in there for the ENTIRE DAY."
"I was supposed to work with her today and she got pulled at the very last minute. We were stocking up our vehicle to start going to various storage facilities when PR pulled her. I was told to just go about my day as normal. Um... No. The whole point of having someone is that a lot of the tasks required TWO people. So I was told to only do those tasks that required one person. Great."
"Anyway, about the only thing exciting that happened is that one of the defensive lasers fired off. See, if a meteor ever decides to land on us, there isn't much to protect us. We've got a physical barrier (the dome, for micro-meteorites that a smaller than a grain of sand) and a deflector shield (for micro-meteorites the size of a nose booger) but anything larger than that? You need to shoot it out of the sky. That's where the laser comes in. Apparently, it detected something about the size of a child's fist and activated. And it was destroyed."
"That was the excitement for the day."
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Post by steve on Apr 23, 2024 13:33:00 GMT -7
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"And, just like that, my world has changed. How about yours?"
"A lot to describe. OK, first, Anka described her visit with public relations. Unlike me who hardly really knows anyone (even though I've been here months at this point), Anka has been here for years. She knows people. People know her. She can pull a few of them aside and ask what's what."
"Apparently, PR did what they did with her because there was an 'External Civilian Organization Request for Information.' In other words, a company or organization wanted more information about her."
"OK, let me back up. In the IKG, a lot of your personal information is also public information. That's by design; You're a government employee. You're not in the military. You're not in law enforcement. The public has a right to know who it is that is working in the government. Can they get your bra size? No. But there's a lot of stuff that they can know about you so long as it is not deemed HFS (Health, Financial, Safety) information; Information that would compromise your health, finances or your safety."
"I was in the IKN so a lot of that information was NOT public; IKN is military. When I switched to the IKG, all of that information became public."
"However, here's where things get interesting. Anka was told that my visit to PR and her visit were part of the SAME ORGANIZATION request; The same organization that wanted my info was the same organization that wanted her info."
"Huh."
"No one will tell us exactly what that organization was, though. We can put in a request to find out. Anka is going to do that."
"Why would someone want to know more about me... AND Anka? And JUST me & Anka?"
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Post by steve on Apr 25, 2024 12:14:09 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"Some of these stupid storage facilities are hardly ever used beyond storing boxes and removing boxes. Every now and then, you have to check up on them and make sure that things work, such as the lights, water, toilet, etc. so forth. Make sure the doors all function. Things like that."
"Anka & I were paired together to go out some of these facilities and make sure that everything was still in order. One of the tasks is blowing dust off of the roofs of these buildings. Even though we're under a dome, there's still dust filaments that float around and eventually land on the roof. There are wheeled vehicles and the wheels toss them up and they gently float back down and stick to something. There's no wind here so the dust stays where it is until something moves it and that 'something' is Anka & I."
"Going up onto one of these rooftops isn't very scary. You're wearing a harness and the harness is hooked onto something so the chance of falling to your death is minimal. Even the little air blower that you use has a cord that wraps around your wrist."
"Go to the center of the roof and then blow all of the dust off in some systemic fashion. Wash, rinse, repeat."
"In one of the buildings, one of the toilets didn't work. We were told to unbolt it and bring it back to maintenance for inspection, so we did that."
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Post by steve on Apr 27, 2024 13:20:24 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A KLINGON CITIZEN
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"Did you know that 'water' sometimes isn't 'water'?"
"These storage facilities are self-contained; There's no external power or water or anything running to these buildings. The toilets aren't connected to sewers. We just unbolted one the other day and hauled it back to maintenance."
"Anyway, in most of these storage facilities, there's the chance to have potable (ie you can drink and cook with it) water. Before you ask, most times, you don't have a sink next to a toilet but you do have a type of liquid hand sanitizer. It works just as well and the sanitizer will outlive you, me & your grandchildren by a century before it ever reaches its expiration date."
"However, there's an additive in the water that allows the water to 'keep' for a longer period of time. Occasionally, you have to test the water to make sure that the additive is at acceptable levels. Too low and the water begins to evaporate; Too high and the water is bad for your health. As long as the additive is within an acceptable range, you can drink as much water as you want and it won't affect your health. Supposedly."
"So that's what Anka & I did: We tested the water at a bunch of these facilities. A few of the facilities were at the upper-end of acceptable and we made a note of that. Someone else will come out here and do whatever it is that they do in order to get the water back to an acceptable level."
"See what you're missing out on by not joining the IKG?"
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Post by steve on Apr 29, 2024 12:42:59 GMT -7
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"I was informed today by my Appeals Advisor that my appeal is now in 'administrative review.' That means that whatever work was being done on my appeal has stopped and is being reviewed by a more authoritative panel."
"The AA told me that this isn't common at all. Possible causes for the administrative review usually has to do with legal issues. In other words, whatever decision was made (which caused the appeal) or a decision that was going to be made (the ruling on the appeal itself) was rejected by some legal department and the legal department said, 'something doesn't smell right.' Of course, those aren't the only causes but, when this happens, they are the most likely causes."
"Something that did cause curiosity with my AA is that there was a request for ALL of my IKN & IKG files from the legal department. This development might be concerning because, usually, when the legal arm of the IKN wants your stuff, it's usually for a bad reason. My AA has said that, although nothing is official yet, I may want to retain a private lawyer in the event that either the IKN or IKG issues charges. I may also want to make arrangements in the event that I'm unceremoniously kicked out of the IKG."
"And how was your day?"
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Post by steve on May 1, 2024 12:08:44 GMT -7
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"It absolutely sucks working on 'pins and needles.' Anka has asked administration what is going on and, unofficially, they know absolutely nothing about anything. They're in the dark as much as we are."
"Great."
"In the meanwhile, I'm still expected to work as though nothing is happening (of course). Today was a crash course in the vehicle maintenance department. Anka and I helped out vehicle maintenance since they were short-staffed. You'd be surprised but there's over fifty ground-based vehicles that the facility maintains, from small carts that I would use to large transport vehicles. It's a non-stop schedule of maintenance."
"Anka and I had to sort through a backlog of inventory parts and sort out their inventory. Really? Inventory? Gosh, I wonder why they chose *me* of all people to help with their inventory? Of course, the first step to getting your inventory organized is if YOU KNEW WHAT YOU F***ING HAD!!!! Inventory management in the department is... Non-existent. That's the polite version. It was literally 'throw it on a shelf and remember where it is for when you need it.' I wish I was making that up. Granted, they have no dedicated inventory staff so, I suppose, that's some excuse but not a very good one."
"*sigh* Maybe I should just go back to the ROZ..."
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Post by steve on May 3, 2024 11:51:16 GMT -7
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"Anka & I have been sorting out the vehicle maintenance inventory problem. In reality, I've taken the lead with Anka helping me out."
"Part of the problem is that they haven't really opened a lot of the boxes that have come in. Again, I'm not making this up. Before you can open up a box, you have to ensure that you ordered the box to begin with. Where's the request form? What's the part for? When it comes to inventory on a ship, they're all packed in boxes but the boxes are as small as they can be; With the boxes in vehicle maintenance, they're the SHIPPING boxes, meaning these boxes protect the merchandise and so the boxes are much bulkier."
"And some of the boxes have parts in them for vehicles WE DON'T EVEN HAVE ANYMORE! *sigh* I've decided to split the inventory into classes of vehicles and then one category that is just 'any or most vehicle.' I'm not saying that it's the perfect inventory system but it's better than what they have."
"Oh, and some of the boxes don't have vehicle parts but have tools in them instead. One box had an electronic diagnostic tool that was already obsolete. I'm not joking; The tool requires software to be updated on it and when we tried to update the software, the company had discontinued that particular model and so now the tool is functionally useless."
"How the Federation has not taken us over yet, I have no idea..."
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