When I got out of college in 1975, my first job was as a plant engineer at Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita, KS. In that huge factory complex, every 120V outlet was a duplex crowfoot. Some many years ago, management in its infinite wisdom had decided that they could eliminate the factory workers from pilfering the power tools if said power tools could not be used at home, due to the plug "not fitting" the standard U-ground residential outlet. Management didn't realize that anybody proficient enough to use an electric drill or grinder also knew more than enough to replace the crowfoot plug with a standard U-ground plug after they stole the tool and got it home. By 1977, management realized that the crowfoot plugs were't fooling anybody, and maintenance was tired of having to install a crowfoot plug on every power tool that was purchased. Our electricians spent numerous overtime hours replacing thousands of antiquated crowfoot outlets with modern U-ground outlets.
