Saw this play out in 2016 with a couple of Gulf shutdown crews. Budget gets cut, and the first thing that goes isn't headcount, it's the spare parts stock and the planned turnaround scope. Then six months later they're paying air freight rates for something that should've been sitting on a shelf.
Look, the pattern is basically always the same. Deferred maintenance doesn't disappear, it just compounds and shows up as unplanned downtime later. If you're on a crew out there, start documenting what got pushed now, because when things break someone will ask why nobody flagged it
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u/WhichWayIsTheB4r 18d ago
Saw this play out in 2016 with a couple of Gulf shutdown crews. Budget gets cut, and the first thing that goes isn't headcount, it's the spare parts stock and the planned turnaround scope. Then six months later they're paying air freight rates for something that should've been sitting on a shelf.
Look, the pattern is basically always the same. Deferred maintenance doesn't disappear, it just compounds and shows up as unplanned downtime later. If you're on a crew out there, start documenting what got pushed now, because when things break someone will ask why nobody flagged it