This sounds like deliberate fraud to me. She probably was getting money under the table to fake her reports. I doubt it was just a poor decision.
32 years worth of fake reports? Not just the occasional screwup?
Yeah, that's deliberate to a huge degree.
is there any direct monetary value to doing that? does it save the company money?
because if its not about money directly its about undermining the navy.
Steel making is a sensitive process, just watch that knife making show a few times and then imagine that on an industrial scale. Temperatures, carbon content, oxidization, impurities, casting/forging... all of that has to be controlled and if it's fucked up you have to scrap it and start all over again.
I consider it sabotage.
It could absolutely save them money by allowing them to fulfill their obligation to the Navy with inferior batches of steel, rather than having to make new batches that actually pass the tests and then find a buyer for the failed batch.
It's just run of the mill femoid laziness.
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