I did some repair work for PPS one summer, mostly on door locks and panic bars. A bunch of incompetents who also explained to me that even if the work did not make a whole lot of sense they would lose the federal money if they did not spend it. One of the regular PPS crew spent about half the time talking about hunting and fishing, etc. and the others said that he just didn't seem to understand that he was supposed to be working. If you can call it that.  

This is pretty mild stuff compared to what typically goes on in construction work. An insult is the least of it. Usually they just fire you and replace you with their buddy who is broke from his last trip to Vegas. They tell you to just shrug it off. Did either of these guys actually get terminated from their gravy jobs?