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

[Delphinus]

I don't know whether to giggle or shudder...

But, still, if you were put onto a show called "Worst Handyman", wouldn't you try to do a good job?

The Worst Driver ones are brutal too. There are people that just shouldn't be driving. I guess the flip side with that is, I don't need a TV show to tell me that. I remember one girl, I think from last season, who said she only checked the rear view mirror once every 15 minutes or so. Why would you admit this on national television? Wouldn't it be easier to lie????? And the one guy who's key they cut up? He was so over the top I just couldn't believe he wasn't just doing it for the sake of the TV show.