Maintenance Mode

I’ve reached a new stage in my professional life: I’ve stopped flagging the camera issues to my superiors and started maintaining my own workarounds. That’s usually the point where you realize a problem isn’t going away—it’s just being lived with. You stop trying to fix the hole in the roof and you just start moving the buckets when it rains. I have my own little system now for when the screens go dark. I know which feeds will come back first and which ones will lag. It’s a choreography of failure. It’s strange how quickly you can adapt to a broken system until the brokenness feels like the only honest part of the job. I’m not a technician anymore; I’m just a keeper of the gaps.