"We hired a bench technician to do electronics repair.
the first job i asked his help with was to extend a comm cable. 3 conductors. easy peasy. cut the cable, splice in x amount of new wire, done.
he comes back to me an hour later with the original cable, cut in two, then spliced back together. without adding anything to it.
instead of extending it, all he did was cut it and put it back together. and it took him an hour."
Several others were not instantly fired, either, but lasted a month or more.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT JOB HANDLING NATIONAL RECORDS in the archives division.