Workers falsify physical evidence to satisfy whatever number defines success

Evidence

The incentives to under-report the value of items in burglaries are the same as those that induced New York City sanitation men to water their garbage so their trucks would weigh the expected amount when they appeared at the landfill site, even though the drivers had not completed their runs. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1208

Categorization

• CANDY: Sanitation workers literally watering garbage to hit weight quotas is a perfect elevator-conversation absurdity.