Mystical Kiev and stories. V. Speys
his face, filling out into a neat goatee. After a morning coffee with his wife in the kitchen, I began to gather in search of new work.
– Let’s go out together, – has offered the wife. – I was at the plant foot, spend?
– Of course, I walk with you to promise success. – I joked, to which his wife replied sternly:
– Home can come back if you do not stand. – And, having sustained a significant pause, – to understand?!
According to her strict tone of voice, of course, I realized that the joke with my employment ended once and for all. We left the house. Our way laid along the lake on a paved road builders Underground, smashed Obolonske lake in half. Near Lili work was household chemical plant «Zarya». The plant did not care about the environment and merge any garbage in the western part of the lake. And when that happens, then the part of the plant was suffocating smog. Lily often complained about the bad smell and nausea when her «little factory» wind blowing from the plant. I’m worried about her health, but could not do anything. We were silent all the way. Gorky was a lump in my throat from her parting words on the occasion of my job search, and scraped the soul cat. In the distance it seemed plant «Medtech», and said goodbye to his wife, I walked to the subway station «Petrovka». Left alone with him, and collecting ideas on finding a new job, I continued on my way. Metro «Petrovka» as calm Human River has always acted on me with his free and easy passage of time. The passengers in the car in which I entered, made an impression on me is always some kind of estrangement, each busy with their concerns and affairs and do not care about a neighbor riding and sitting next to or in front of you. Since being treated around, I saw a beggar old man with a cane, hobbling on the car with a plastic sack tied to a rope encircling his battered jacket. He threw passengers every little thing in the bag, and he thanked those words of thanks and I wish you all prosperity and health. I also decided to give him something, some little thing and began to rummage in your pocket suit. Not finding anything there, except for 2 cents, he pulled out his empty hand and decided that it will, suddenly found a beggar next to me. He emphasized, but stood staring at my gaze. I had to get these two a penny and stick it in the outstretched hand of. The old man looked at the coin, muttering something unintelligible evil threw a coin in my face. I managed to dodge, and a beggar, shaking her, like a shovel, gray beard, spewing curses, clearly in my direction, I went on to the platform in the open door. My station «Red Square», today «Kontraktova» was next, and I decided to get out here. Going underground passage, I found myself at a tram stop. Rode a tram №11, without hesitation, I walked into it. Tram drove me to the factory «electrical appliance» and follow the intuitive feeling that this is where my future job, I found myself in the personnel department. Engineering and technical staff of the plant employees to work took the head of personnel, so I find a sign on the door proper, opened the door of his office. At the window of a conventional desk what the factory equipped with the technical department, was a man of middle age and over his glasses in silence, staring at me. Armchair for another massive table was empty. Deciding that the owner is not there, I cheerfully asked:
– Where is he? – And she pointed to a chair.
– Who are you? – Rustles piece of paper in his hands, with a question, in turn, asked the sitting.
Pose as an important «person», I decided to catch the tail of luck, and without thinking, blurted:
– I’m from the design department. – Pecked man and asked:
– From Golde? – Having no idea who this Golde, I continued my dialogue – He sent me to the head of the personnel department for registration. The man anxiously rubbed his right hand his massive nose, then gently asked:
– And who wrote you a pass to the factory?
– Yes, I saw that in a booth are people without permits, but so has passed. I have never asked a pass, but if I had stopped, of course, I would have written out.
– Anyway. – The man scratched his nose again. Apparently, part of the procedure by massaging him this body has grown so impressively. We silently stared at each other. Pause delayed. After enduring a long pause, he suddenly asked:
– The documents you have with you? – I did not hesitate, rapped: – That’s right.
– Let’s here, let’s go to register you. Yes, and by the way, where you Golde take, well, what position? – I guessed that my idea with my employment success. It remains to determine the position. In my work it was written that I’m an engineer designer of the first category. I’m currently adding titles, said: – On the position of chief engineer
designer.
Man carefully scrutinized, he looked at me and said.
– Well, we do not have a job; there is a vacancy lead design engineer for maintenance of products in production.
– Head of the office had in mind; I’m just so mechanically repeated.
– Oh well. Here’s a sheet of paper and a pen.
He handed me a sheet of paper, write an application for the post. Here sit here. – He pointed to the table where she sat, and he sat behind a massive, adding on the go – There’s an application-sample was under glass.
I got out of the breast pocket of his work record, passport and handed it to him. He became flipping, studying my working career. Having looked through, and carefully looked at me, he added: – When Golde sign a statement to me at once. I’ll let you fill in the blanks and you can go to work.
Concealing his triumph, and trying to write as calmly as possible, in a statement to the letter obtained more exactly, I asked: – Here in the «goat» stated salary that I write, put a dash or amount?
– Leave the place Head of the salary he would write when will sign the statement.
– Good! – Trying to sound more confident, solid I replied. After writing the statement, I gave it to the chief of the personnel department. He put a mark on the statement that the vacancy is free, gave it to me with the words:
– Go to our archive, where Zinaida Maksimovna write you a pass, I’ll sign it, and go to the Signature Department Golde. Then to me for forms.
– There is! – In the military, I snapped and walked out.
The head of the design department was looking at me through the massive spectacles hung on the nose as hooked on a branch Kaloxylos chameleon, and his gray eyes boring into me like two sparkling lenses. He was holding my statement, and a piece of a little shudder in his arms covered with black curls of thick hair, clearly visible because of the short-sleeved T-shirt colorful.
– Well, young man, I’m just so you can not take the position. I need some sort of probation, and we’ll see. I’ll sign a statement later. Now go to the Lubchenco Alexander Vladimirovich for an interview, will work in his design and technology sector support department in the manufacture of products.
Alexander turned terse, but still not old, not young-looking chief of forty-five.
When he saw me, he was silent, and looked at me, gestured to a chair that was set to his desktop with folders drawings. I silently sat down on a specified location
– Well, tell me that you know how, who recommended you to come to us?
– Let no one. Just passing by, give, I think, I go. Well, that’s gone. Personnel Department sent to Golde.
– Alexander Askoldovich, of course, only takes on the recommendation of tolerances on the object is not lower than the first.
– So I have a number of first admissions of the secret part. It’s all right.
– Well, then everything is fine. We work for the defense industry, and there are no random