The guy sounds like an imbecile, how did he get the job in the first place?
Maybe the union has an imbecile hiring quota, or maybe he's someone's unemployable nephew, or something.
Who knows? Maybe his dad works there. Being Wyoming, he’s lucky he didn’t get shot. No joke, there are still places where people with rifles patrol the water ditches. If you’re caught messing with the valves, you’ll get some frontier justice and the cops didn’t see nuthin’.