Sounds like this person did shabby work elsewhere they thought would be “good enough”.
I opened it up and found that…there was a good ground there (to my relief) but he apparently just decided to use a two prong outlet. WHY? He had to have gone to special effort to find a two prong outlet to install.
Probably because they likely had an old receptacle laying around and, staying on brand, it would be “good enough”.
Yeah you’re probably right. Which reminds me, he was a bomb technician. And he had all of his fingers. So clearly he understood electricity for that purpose…