This is the default assumption for any organization, business, or enterprise, with the possible exception of Globex.
- Mr. Burns' nuclear power plant is plagued by hundreds of safety violations, incompetent employees, a falling structure (to the point where it would cost $100,000,000 just to bring it up to code), and lax security.
- The company really only makes money due to being the sole electric power provider in the Springfield area and the highly efficient corruption that allows crooked public officials to actually choose their bribes a la Let's Make a Deal.
- The company's collective work ethic is evident in everyone's constant sleep, with employees except for Smithers being slackers. Homer sneaks out of work by letting Lenny cover him, which leads to a Call-Back 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. He has employed animals, illegal aliens, professional athletes note , and even a crudely constructed dummy. Homer has been replaced by chickens and bricks.
- The employees have massively Skewed Priorities when it comes to work and health benefits, such as when they gave up their health insurance for a pinball machine or their dental plan for a keg of beer.
- 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".
- Any company that makes an endorsement deal with Krusty the Clown is guaranteed to produce the shoddiest goods in existence. You're lucky if you bought a product with Krusty's face on it that simply isn't working right. Chances are it'll be downright dangerous to use, or in some cases, even just to touch. Most of the time, Krusty isn't even trying to pretend he cares about the quality of any product bearing his name. Also, the quality of the Krusty Burgers restaurant chain often goes past awful and straight into life-threateningly unsanitary, and in a few cases, even into "crimes against humanity" territorynote . His investment in it is equally stupidnote .
- Powell Motors, a satire of the dire straits of a lot of American auto manufacturers in the 90s, falls into this pretty hard. They've designed so heavily for unassuming mid-tier good-mileage cars that none of their cars are even a little remarkable; Herb Powell, the CEO, grumbles that there's "maybe forty bucks of steel in these cars." The executives and management are incompetent and out-of-touch, insistent on focus-testing their mediocre products into oblivion while pursuing a pretentious and unappealing aesthetic. Herb tries to counter their downward spiral by having his half-brother Homer, supposedly the "average American," design a car. The resulting mess drives Powell Motors into bankruptcy.
- Duff Beer, as depicted in "Duffless", has manufacturing processes so flawed that the single guy on their quality control team regularly finds rodents, syringes, and human body parts (as in, Adolf Hitler's head) inside the bottles and releases the exact same beer under three different names. One episode had them try to put out a non-alcoholic beer to stay afloat after Springfield had a brief spell of prohibition, attempting to sell consumers on its taste — they went bankrupt thirty minutes later.
- Pretty much every business and operation in Springfield is all manner of crooked. Even The Mafia and regular criminals are incompetent (especially because they have zero idea of how to act "covert") and only prosper as much as they do because the cops are worse.
- Springfield Elementary counts as well, given the disorganized principal and his profound budget cuts, lethargic teachers, dysfunctional students, unregulated bullying, horrible cafeteria food, and minimal safety requirements, among other things. The closest to the Only Sane Employee is the superintendent, and even he isn't without his Idiot Ball moments.
