The Repairman by Harry Harrison Science Fiction Adventure

<p><strong>My boss leaned back wiped his hands on his handkerchief and gave me Lecture Forty-four on Company Duty and My Troubles.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>He was telling me -- the guy who did the job while he sat back on his fat paycheck in an air-conditioned office.</p>