Maintenance Crisis Powerpoint and Song

Every day, the media bombards us with stories of a new crisis that seems to threaten the existence of life on planet earth: melting icecaps, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, civil war in Iraq, rising oil prices, the growing shortage of maintenance men….

Come again?

If you’re unaware of the crisis in the maintenance industry, it’s not for lack of effort on the part of Joel Leonard, who says that deferring the maintenance of both private and public infrastructure has already claimed thousands of lives.

“New Orleans was an accident waiting to happen,” says Leonard, referring to the levee failure following Hurricane Katrina. “We all know it, but none of the government people had enough guts or foresight to say, ‘Hey, we’ll put that money into it.’ That’s a real sad case. Deferred maintenance is not preferred maintenance."

To draw public attention to the crisis, Leonard has turned to a medium long used by those seeking to jumpstart a movement: song. His lyrics to the “Maintenance Crisis Song,” set to the music of friend Harley Denio, warn of impending breakdown and social upheaval:

No one wants to work in the boiler room,

no one wants to work with the tools.

The nation’s busy taking the easy way out,

There’s no one left to fix our schools.

Maintenance technicians are about to retire.

Company executives got no one to hire.

How safe does it make you feel?

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