释义 |
provocative maintenance provocative maintenance[Common ironic mutation of "preventive maintenance"] Actionsperformed upon a machine at regularly scheduled intervals toensure that the system remains in a usable state. So calledbecause it is all too often performed by a field servoid whodoesn't know what he is doing; such "maintenance" often*induces* problems, or otherwise results in the machine'sremaining in an *un*usable state for an indeterminate amountof time. See also scratch monkey. |