4 Feb - Sunday

My latest adventure stem from the company who was hired to provide Life Support for my location. Life support is defined as providing food service, water service, maintenance/repair, and janitorial service for our area. I will not bore you with the details but in short, they are not providing enough personnel or assets to accomplish their mission. For example, in the new dining facility (see post 18 Jan) the workers are sleeping in one of the back rooms because the company will not provide them with transportation back and forth to the berthing area located about five miles away. Additionally, the company has failed to provide enough workers to maintain the bathrooms. So, at noon when I heard one of the senior managers of the Life Support company was in town I tracked him down, mentioned to him that there were some problems and I asked if he could help. Our fifteen minute "spur of the moment meeting" turned into a two and a half hour tour and discussion of the problems his company are causing me and my staff. The head manager seemed genuinely concerned and three hours later at our second meeting of the day he had a solution for all but one of the issues we addressed. In the next few days I will know if he was serious about his solutions or he was just paying lip-service to my concerns. Never a dull moment - until the next exciting adventure...