"I'm going to be a father!"
The plumber handed out small gifts in the Community Service Company's work hall, and his colleagues congratulated him on entering the next stage of his life.
As a plumber for the Community Service Company, he was different from those working in ordinary lower-middle-class and low-end communities. He was an employee affiliated with the Community Service Company.
Whenever he had no specific work to do, he stayed in the Community Service Company's workshop. He had his own desk in the hall, with some files and documents on it, as well as a typewriter.
For a Middle and High-end Community, everything had to be done "properly," because that reflected one's attitude and was also the system.
Whenever someone called to inform the plumber that work was needed, he had to record the year, month, day, and time, who had called him, and whether the job involved inspecting, repairing, or replacing parts in a resident's or the community's plumbing.
He also had to record the exact time and details of the work, what had been dismantled, replaced, or repaired, and, if the work was done for a customer, have the customer fill out a receipt form.
This was an entire procedure, and he had to follow the rules. After all, the people living in Middle and High-end Communities had become accustomed to such an orderly lifestyle because of the social class they belonged to.
Whenever they were dissatisfied with some work or wanted to know certain information, the Community Service Company could immediately retrieve a specific and detailed work report.
On one hand, this was to show that the residents' money had not been wasted. On the other, it was to prevent them from making trouble.
At first, the plumber had been very unaccustomed to all this.