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>A customer managed to store their spare parts ashore (!) I'm going to bet they /never/ had to use those spare parts before and thought they were dead weight.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>A customer managed to store their spare parts ashore (!)
I'm going to bet they /never/ had to use those spare parts before and thought they were dead weight.
Happens everytime. That box of cables you threw out last week because you never opened it in the past 20 years? Yeah, something just broke and you need one of those cables now.
Happens. Every. Fucking. Time.
And everyone wonders why I look like a chronic hoarder.
- nine_k 2y agoThe usual dialog: — Why are you carrying this around? You won't need it. — Exactly so that I won't need it. (Works well with umbrellas, leathermans, band aids, etc.)
- lb1lf 2y agoOh, the problem is rarely the ship's crew - they know all too well that if something breaks and they haven't got a spare, they're up shit creek. The problem is rather - I'll just let my prejudices roam freely, my apologies - beancounters who realize that it is a waste to keep X sets of spare parts on X ships, when they are hardly ever used - heck, much more cost-efficient to keep one set of spares in a common location, then dispatch as needed. Except, of course, that 'dispatch' is non-trivial if you're, say, doing core samples along the mid-Atlantic ridge...
- Dalewyn 2y agoIt definitely sounds like I won that bet. :V