and the guy with a bucket to bail it out no doubt just happens to be on holiday this week

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

I once inspected an malfunctioning emergency diesel generator on an oil rig in the Persian Gulf off Abu Dhabi. The generator was located in the open, exposed to the seawater spray, including the electrical and electrics racks. Well, these were supposed to be waterproof, but they weren't (and neither condensation proof)... I had to recommend to build a shed around it to protect it...  

"People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them." - Jean Monnet

I've got a year's supply of idiotic-to-dangerous design horror stories.  


She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre