How come some assembly line workers play dart with components?

>>1118654
But it is.
And when the components fit kinda badly like in your pic, any shaking of the board before soldering can result that.

>>1118654
they just drop them in the holes, then the wave soldering jiggles them in whatever direction

Y'all are wrong. If you look closer, the PCB is designed for capacitors with a different footprint where the legs are farther apart. They obviously didn't have any caps with that footprint in stock so they just bent the ones they did have in order to fit.

>>1118943
This. Damn botched job though, if you ask me. There are proper ways to bend component leads in order to match a different footprint and to reduce this disgracious leaning...

Study some 70/80's vintage pcb, and see for yourselves how it should be done.

>>1118943
Yep. Or cost reduction.