It can go a bit too much the other way. A lab full of PhD physicists and engineers designing and building an advanced radar sat and we can't get an extension cord. Instead we get the extension block and a separate plug and wire.
We then need an maintenance 'engineer' who has been on the half day PAT course to come and fit the cable for us.
We then need an maintenance 'engineer' who has been on the half day PAT course to come and fit the cable for us.