The Repairman by Harry Harrison, Science Fiction, Adventure

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My boss leaned back, wiped his hands on his handkerchief and gave me Lecture Forty-four on Company Duty and My Troubles.

This department is officially called Maintenance and Repair, when it really should be called trouble-shooting. Hyperspace beacons are made to last forever – or damn close to it. When one of them breaks down, it is never an accident, and repairing the thing is never a matter of just plugging in a new part.

He was telling me – the guy who did the job while he sat back on his fat paycheck in an air-conditioned office.