Well spoken! or should I say typed?

I am only in first third or my working life so would appreciate any advice on how to deal with the leeches without wrecking the rest of my "hopefully" career.

I love the work and most of the staff and understand that it could be me on that piece of equipment and I want to know it's maintained correctly. My immediate superior is about as much use as a choccy fire guard and actually works less than one.

I regularly feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall especially when I know managers further up the ladder know what's going on and still do nothing about it.

Oh the pain of it all.....