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** In "Homer the Smithers", Smithers chooses the plant's stupidest and most incompetent employee to replace Mr. Burns. After searching the company database, he finds out that ''all 714 employees'' fit the description of "lazy, clumsy, dimwitted, and monstrously ugly".

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** In "Homer the Smithers", Smithers chooses looks for the plant's stupidest and most incompetent employee to replace as a temporary replacement for himself as Mr. Burns.Burns' assistant. After searching the company database, he finds out that ''all 714 employees'' fit the description of "lazy, clumsy, dimwitted, and monstrously ugly".

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** The plant's hiring policies are often bizarre and outright illegal, with Mr. Burns making all decisions without HR employees. He has employed animals, illegal aliens, professional athletes, and even a crudely constructed dummy. Homer has been replaced by chickens and ''bricks''.
** In one episode, Globex targets the plant as a potential source of talented employees. They first approach Smithers, and when he turns them down they go for the number three guy at the plant -- Homer.

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** The plant's hiring policies are often bizarre and outright illegal, with Mr. Burns making all decisions without HR employees. He has employed animals, illegal aliens, professional athletes, athletes [[note]]both a team of {{Super Ringer}}s and a Brazilian football team that crash-landed on the plant grounds and Burns made slaves of[[/note]], and even a crudely constructed dummy. Homer has been replaced by chickens and ''bricks''.
** In one episode, Globex targets the plant as a potential source of talented employees. They first approach Smithers, and when he turns them down they go for the number three guy at the plant -- Homer.
''bricks''.
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** The employees have massively SkewedPriorities when it comes to work and health benefits, such as when they gave up [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E11HomersTripleBypass their health insurance for a pinball machine]] or [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield their dental plan for a keg of beer]].

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** The company's collective work ethic is evident in constant sleep, with employees except for Smithers being slackers.
** The plant's hiring policies are bizarre and illegal, with Mr. Burns making decisions without HR employees, such as employing animals, illegal aliens, professional athletes[[note]]both a team of {{Super Ringer}}s and a Brazilian football team that crash-landed on the plant grounds and Burns made slaves of[[/note]], and even a crudely constructed dummy; Homer is replaced by chickens and ''bricks''.
** The employees have massively SkewedPriorities when it comes to work and health benefits, such as when they gave up [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E11HomersTripleBypass their health insurance for a pinball machine]] or [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield their dental plan for a keg of beer]].
** In "Homer the Smithers", Smithers tries choose the plant's most incompetent employee to replace Mr. Burns, only to find out that ''all 714 employees'' fit the description of "lazy, clumsy, dimwitted, and monstrously ugly".

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** The company's collective work ethic is evident in everyone's constant sleep, with employees except for Smithers being slackers.
slackers. Homer sneaks out of work by letting Lenny cover him, which leads to a CallBack when Homer gets Mr. Burns to cover for him.
** Should someone, say, accidentally trigger a ''core meltdown'' in their sleep, the only thing preventing this is a trained dog. So much so that the pre-programmed warning messages are designed to commend the dog.
** The plant's hiring policies are often bizarre and outright illegal, with Mr. Burns making all decisions without HR employees, such as employing employees. He has employed animals, illegal aliens, professional athletes[[note]]both a team of {{Super Ringer}}s and a Brazilian football team that crash-landed on the plant grounds and Burns made slaves of[[/note]], athletes, and even a crudely constructed dummy; dummy. Homer is has been replaced by chickens and ''bricks''.
''bricks''.
** The employees have massively SkewedPriorities In one episode, Globex targets the plant as a potential source of talented employees. They first approach Smithers, and when it comes to work and health benefits, such as when he turns them down they gave up [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E11HomersTripleBypass their health insurance go for a pinball machine]] or [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield their dental plan for a keg of beer]].
the number three guy at the plant -- Homer.
** In "Homer the Smithers", Smithers tries choose chooses the plant's stupidest and most incompetent employee to replace Mr. Burns, only to find Burns. After searching the company database, he finds out that ''all 714 employees'' fit the description of "lazy, clumsy, dimwitted, and monstrously ugly".

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