Just wanted to chime in defense of the Maeve storyline: I think what we've been presented with so far has been very reasonable. These 'butchers' are basically the equivalent of first-line IT folks. Having more permissions than they actually need, cracking under pressure and doing things they aren't supposed to using those permissions -- as someone from the industry, this is pretty common. With the details we've learned (particularly in this episode with how much control Ford is) the whole operation is already noted to be quite sloppy. When it comes to their incompetence, there's a pretty simple explanation for that: they don't want to die. Sure, you might say they could deceive Maeve and then go to someone higher and report the issue.. but these workers are not actors. We have been told over and over that Maeve was built with the purpose of being able to easily read people. If she detected even the slightest bit of hesitation, she could end their lives. They could do a better job of portraying that in the most recent scenes but I think the setup is there.
On another note, something that did bother me this episode was how Clementine was disabled with a single bullet. I guess that might be part of the sloppiness on part of the board/Theresa that Bernard mentioned. When there was an actual malfunctioning host (the milk drinking guy) he was riddled with holes and considered himself immortal.
