You Fired the Fix

Gordon had one day left before retirement when the whole factory lost power. He went to fix it and found that his apprentice, Teo, had skipped the circuit inspections in a hurry to get results, then wired an illegal connection after the outage to cover the mistake. That brought down the plant's entire grid. When Gordon tried to repair it he was accused of causing the failure, slapped, and made to sign his retirement papers. He did not stay retired long. He happened to solve a grid problem for another industrial group that outside experts had failed on. He was hired back at a high salary, and electricity companies began coming after his patent and his diagnostic box.