Run To Failure. The act of continuing to use aged and undermaintained equipment in an effort to take advantage of business accounting tax laws regarding
depreciation of equipment, which then allow degrading systems to 'Deepwater Horizon' or 'West Pharmaceutical Services Dust Explosion' themselves with corporate assistance often causing death, injury, and catastrophic economic and environmental consequences causing
cascading drops in relevant markets with perhaps privately predictable results (depending on the accuracy of things like
MTBF of points of ciritical failure).
Example:
"Why are they RTFing the main production line already? We can't even get new
bearings for the high-speeds! There's still millions in the burn pool, We're on trajectory! It makes no sense"
"Oh, rumor has it they 'owe themselves money' from their other 'interests' so they're going to do a dip-and-flip and rename us. That's why the crane is parked out there at $40K a day not doing anything. They SNAFUd the announcement and now
all 20 letters of their new sign are spread out along the Jersey Turnpike like the Hulk got mad at the Hollywood sign."
"Oh. But won't those bearings fail.. right after the 'takeover' and then..."
"
Long vacation around that so we miss it when it happens?"
"
MTBF on that bearing set?"
"June? Vacation in Maui?"
"
Guess so. Won't want to be here."
"Hope they got double-indemnity."