Overpowered -- Grab the bus bar
It was 1982. A geek (me) and a company vice president for a small map-making company went to an Army munitions plant to plan an installation of computerized mapmaking gear so they could keep track of their facilities.
With the local artillery colonel as guide, we took a tour of the steam tunnels, into which we would need to run some fiber optic cables as part of our installation. Geek nirvana!
We emerged from a tunnel into a giant factory room. There was a huge vat of bubbling purple goo there, into which ran two enormous bare copper bus bars. The colonel explained that it was an electroplating bath, and they were refurbishing some big artillery piece.
And then the mapmaking company VP grabbed one of the bare copper bus bars. He explained that he knew it was only a volt or two, because his last job was in a factory where they did that kind of stuff with auto parts. The geek looked on with horrified amusement; he knew the VP.
But the artillery colonel started chewing out the VP big time. After hearing that, the geek decided he would keep his hands to himself at all times on this particular job.
These antics really screwed up that contract. The colonel asked himself, "if the VP is that big a jackass, what will the surveyors and installers be like?" He decided that all our company's people would be escorted by two sergeants at all times when we were on the post. Slowed us down. Took all the profit out of the job.
The VP got a raise.
The geek got disgusted and quit.