Ha! I bought cheap frames once. Now I keep the nice boxes and the art is still crooked.

Happened to me a few years back with a packing line. The supervisor was dead set on a new conveyor system, quoted us like 40k. Instead of arguing, I told him to run a full week with him personally watching the bottlenecks. Turned out the problem was simple, the tape dispenser was on the wrong side of the table. Every worker had to reach across a pallet to grab it. Moved it two feet and our output jumped by almost a third. That supervisor still brings it up as a lesson learned for his own team. People love to throw money at a problem when sometimes you just gotta watch the work happen for a day. Good on you for holding the line and making them prove it with data. That's the only way to shut down the gear hawkers.

Did your friend run that mist cycle on a wet bulb sensor or just a plain timer?