Long ago, I worked as an Air Force engineer. I worked on a team of engineers, but my job was to ensure we made all REASONABLE environmental considerations on civil projects.

My boss managed a $6M annual budget. He was an educated idiot, conspiracy theorist, and ran a MLM scheme on the side...

Round 1:

The first time I realized he was a clueless idiot, was at a conference where the state engineers (us) got to meet and greet the federal department heads (BigBoss). The multi-day conference had courses like “Ethical Spending” “Project Estimation” and “Preparing for a Federal Audit”. One evening BigBoss invited all of us out to dinner. My boss spent the evening proudly telling BigBoss how he recovered from identity theft… for the 6th time in 4 years. I was embarrassed. My boss--the man in charge of millions of taxpayer dollars--bragging about fixing a problem that he caused SIX TIMES to the man who approves our budget.

Round 2:

During an inspection, I noticed that we were doing something that could violate the Clean Water Act. If we didn’t fix it we could be fined $50,000 per DAY. I immediately submitted 2 projects: one “band-aid” fix that would cost $1000/day and a second project would be a permanent fix but cost $200K. He denied both of my project requests for over a year. We could have been fined nearly $18M if we'd been discovered.

Round 3:

One morning at work, I got a call from my mom telling me that grandpa was in the ER. The doctors were not optimistic. After the phone call I tell my boss that I might need to take emergency family leave because of my grandpa’s internal bleeding. He immediately tries to sell me some probiotic-supplements to give to my grandfather… “in case he survives”.

Round 4:

Despite working for the government he believed many MANY conspiracy theories: chemtrails, fluoride in the water, and gay frogs. He would just parrot back everything infowars told him to believe. One day I asked him about free energy. BOY AM I GLAD I DID!!! For the next 3 hours he took me deeper into the conspiracy hole. He started off by talking about special engines that burn water and only produce steam as exhaust, and how "Big Oil" was suppressing the technology. Then he explained how the laws of thermodynamics were wrong, how string theory related to actual strings, and that the 4 fundamental forces of nature were prophesied by God in the Book of Revelations through the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.

Round 5:

During a company potluck he repeatedly implied that the secret-ingredient in his wife’s casserole was her own breast milk.