Inventory Report -- Starbase Rugby: Engineering Bay

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Date Posted: 07:15:33 09/22/02 Sun
Author: Technician Ray D'Shyrt and the Z-Shift
Subject: Inventory Report

The predawn Z-Shift was finishing up duties and getting ready to change with the morning shift. 'Z-Shift' was the slang term for the technician shift during which would zees should be getting at that time of night and the menial jobs it usually entailed, whilst the 'A-Shift' was used to indicate the first technician shift of the day.

Typically the Z-Shift were saddled with the low-end maintenance jobs - ensuring the nozzles on chicken soup vendor machines were clean, mopping floors, wiping down monitors and so on before daytime station personel came on duty. A-Shift tended to get the plum technician jobs - repairing porous circuitry, supporting emergency call out crews for dangerous containment scenarios and other assignments that tended to look good on a CV.

Ensign Ray D'Shyrt was still finishing off the monthly stock check as a few members of the A-Shift were turning up in their clean uniforms carrying bagels and hot coffee. He was still new at the job but he was beginning to see why technicians jockeyed for a chance to be up at the crack of dawn wearing the 'A' pin on their shoulder next to the SBR Engineering Corps badge.

"Blady hell, we're missin' inventory," he cursed, his London twang belying his distinctly Chinese heritage.

"What's gone?" his supervisor asked, coming over and looked over his shoulder at the datapad.

"Bondin' adhesive, tritanium cable, neon strips, some computer parts and some other odds and sods, gov'." The supervisor twirled his moustache and frowned.

"You're new arn't you lad? The same thing's been going on for months now. Never enough to make a difference to our daily operations, nothing critical or hard to replace. We've been trying to catch them since it began, but Security says that it's not worth setting up an op to catch the thieves given what's been stolen. Besides they've got a point - our thieves could have stolen more expensive material." The supervisor scrolled up the inventory lists and nodded to himself. "See? Our friend took a some old computer components, but didn't touch the batch of new expensive BNE holoprocessors we've got in stock for the Holo-rooms."

The supervisor patted Ray on the shoulder and smiled.

"Probably just some tea leaf from A-Shift my boy, don't you worry."

The Z-shift signed over to A-Shift, most of them making for the Residential Sector.

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