Whats this in my back?

I was beginning to think a whole shift without anything bad going on was too good to be true. And I was right. 2 incidents in 1 night. Both really pissing me off and showing what a dumping ground this place is. Here's incident number 1.

Was sent to do 2 tasks on an aircraft. One was to change a wheel the other was to fix a thrust reverser. I did the jobs as requested. All completed well in time for the aircraft's departure. Before long the crew turned up and the Captain did his customary walk around inspection. I was somewhat surprised as the captain approached me and asked if I was aware that there was fuel coming out of a particular drain mast. I was totally taken aback as the drain mast he pointed out to me I knew that it was totally unacceptable to have fuel come out of it. As it indicated a fuel leak in the aft fuel tank. Was a pretty bad leak too. 1 drip a second. That's 14400 drips for a 4hr flight. Didn't know what to say to him. But I did tell him I'll check if my shift engineer knows about it. With that he left. But then returned less than 5mins later. Telling me all 4 engines were low on oil. 3 litres per engine. Felt really embarrassed as I rushed about topping up all the engines, even more embarrassed as at that moment bus loads of passengers arrived and stared at me as they boarded the plane. I just don't know how to tell the crew that I'm just given 2 tasks to complete. A bunch of other guys were supposed to ensure the things they spotted were dealt with. But obviously those other guys weren't doing their job. Pisses me off so much that my face has to be the front of such a messed up outfit.

Incident 2 really showed me the true face of this place. An aircraft had to be put on jacks so the landing gear could be inspected. A specialist had be called in to do the inspection when the aircraft arrived. That time happened to be at 2:30am. Poor chap drags his ass outta bed and into work to do this inspection, but can he? Hell no. Why? Cos the jack we are provided does not work and the back up jack only works as part of a set, and we don't have a set. How about borrowing the jacks from the main store? No, they were sent away for repair last night... So we totally wasted the poor guys time. But this isn't the issue that had me fired up.

The guy (big-ish manager type) is pissed off and rightly so. He kicks off at our supervisor saying this is the 2nd such incident and he is pissed off at all this time wasting. Our supervisor replies by saying that its not his fault and that the problem is out of his hands as he tasked an engineer to see to it that all the equipment worked before the plane turned. That the engineer was supposed to get the whole job sorted and ready to go before the plane showed up. And it was that engineers fault things turned out this way. So decide to ask the engineer in question what exactly he was tasked with from the supervisor. The engineer said he was only told a plane was coming in with an undercarriage problem and that was it. As little and as vague a briefing as you could get. Ahhhh, there goes a text book execution of the infamous "stab in the back" manoeuvre. Now this whole cock up is the fault of a poor engineer. Still oblivious of the dagger between his shoulder blades. And the supervisor? Blameless as blameless can be. And the added kick in the bollocks? The supervisor gets promoted... starts his new managerial position next month.