Our thermal plant has a maintenance engineer that also works on crematorium ovens. I found him muttering, cursing, and swearing one day, obviously very irate, as he fiddled with some of our heating systems. I enquired, mainly to make light conversation, and he went on a tirade about home cheapskate crematorium manager had skimped on maintenance and that this had resulted in a breakdown mid-way through a ’ceremony’ and had required ”pulling the client out when he was only half done” and letting the chamber cool down so that the relevant part could be accessed.

That was really quite a nauseating thought. Must make for the shittiest maintenance request ever.