To be fair this doesn’t surprise me one bit; in real life this kind of work is mundane, dogged by bureaucracy, thankless and psychologically demanding. Also Bond is getting progressively older in the movies (and so would be the villains); IMO in the next one they should have him chasing them on a mobility scooter and being reminded by “M” to take his pills every few hours :laugh_at:
One of our patients a few years ago was ex-GCHQ from the cold war, having transferred there from the Post Office/BT – I felt a bit sorry for him as not only was he suffering both dementia and PTSD, he still couldn’t talk to any carers about his work and he was always trying to escape out the doors.
Once I was working on telephone lines in the roofspace, and he was watching me intently trying to find the interception point (he used to tap the lines to Malaya and HongKong from China, I think he had got it into his head that he might be able to spring the doors open somehow)
Whilst I was up the ladder he (accidentally) decided to grab hold of that to steady himself instead of his rollator which he had placed next to it (to get a better look at what I was doing); giving me such a fright (the job was hectic enough as it is as its dark up there and I’d temporarily disconnected the main line to the nursing home) I ended up knocking the hand lamp down – this fell to the floor with a great crash and narrowly missed him by 1m, at which he decided to back off slightly (although I was more worried for his safety than mine!).
The noise attracted the matron, who asked both of us – “how do you keep track of all those wires?” – we both explained the colour code for multipair cables, which is blue/orange/brown/green/slate(grey),with group identifier colours white,red,black,yellow,violet that hasn’t changed in a century and in spite of his Alzheimers he still remembered it raaa.
(the first few are still found today in cat6 cable)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/08/james-bond-would-not-get-job-with-real-mi6-says-spy-chief
