Saving 3,800 on Electricity, Losing a Three-Million Contract

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Ten years of work have built up six holding tanks stocked with 3.8 million worth of live seafood, and the client will inspect the goods in three days. His wife gives her unemployed younger brother a job at the facility, only hoping he will learn a trade. On his first day, the brother notices the electricity bill: 3,800 a day is far too expensive. So he shuts off the pumps, adds tap water and dumps in ice meant for keeping seafood fresh. Every time he causes another disaster, he insists he is saving the company money. The experienced workers cannot stop him, and his sister deletes the surveillance footage for him. By the time her husband rushes back, the tanks are full of belly-up lobsters. Yet the brother hands over an electricity savings report and cheerfully asks when he will receive his bonus.