Worst Handyman

[MitchM]

One summer we had a university student working on a job and I caught him using a chaulkline to mark a 2 x 4 for cutting because he was too lazy to look for the square. Whether or not the cut was square didn't seem that important to him...

When taking down drywall and insulation from an old house during the demo phase, he wasn't using a dust mask.
When I asked him why not, he said that it wasn't important to wear one because all the floating insulation particles were too small to worry about....

On another job (different guy), he was a pretty fast framer, it seemed.
His shortcuts were discovered when the drywall was being hung, and the wall would move. It turns out that he was only putting 2 nails in the baseplates to hold walls 15 feet long!
We had to go back and re-nail every wall that he worked on!

Yes, those handymen are out there.

Mitch