Eerily close to my story above except the huge famous company where I got my washer sounds like “fears.” Weird.
“four scattered and completely wrong settings that could have been lethal on the highway?”
Lethal on the highway? 19 to 44 psi? No.
“ETA: Tires were new enough not to have leaks” thanks, I got a good laugh from this. The only tire that is “new enopugh not to have leaks” is when the car is still on the rack up in the air - and even that is not a sure thing.
Check tire pressure once a month is good. once a week is better.
Yup, me too, in 1975 … Ford pick-up. Took it for an oil change, picked it up, got on the freeway, temp gauge redlined in five minutes. The “technician” who change the oil neglected to tighten the oil plug with a wrench. Garage replaced the engine.
I heard this from a guy:
ALL of it? Who knows. Enough of it that my car was near to redlining on the heat gauge by the time I was able to get off the highway? Yep. I sure didn’t want to attempt to drive it BACK.
I take issue with your title. Seeing the word “professional” I thought it would be a thread on which university educated people were being savaged- lawyers etc.
Unfortuantely, it is about tradesmen. Very disappointing.
So are you inexplicably claiming that trades are not professions, or are you inexplicably shy to share your lawyer story just because no one else has yet?
No, I am saying that I’m disappointed it’s not a thread beating up on university required occupations.
I don’t have any lawyer stories that aren’t known by everyone already.
Why?
and/or
Share a story “beating up on university required occupations” and the thread becomes what you wish just like magic!
The faculty dentist at a distant prestigious dental school told me a particular dental surgery was the “gentle” option with a decent chance of success and the procedure that he’d have done if it were his tooth. I was referred over to that dentist by another dental department at the school. I had opted for the dental school because I was unable to pay full price for a local dentist since I don’t have insurance.
It turns out I should have had the original procedure because the “gentle” procedure turned out to be quite experimental and failed miserably. They most impressively went to great pains to extensively test my teeth for general health and sensitivity before the surgery, but could care less how my teeth were doing after the surgery.
I wound up having to travel long distances about four times the estimated appointments in order to get a tooth extraction and the original procedure which was more of a sure thing. It was irresponsible for the faculty dentist to recommend that surgery and it wound up costing me as much as a couple visits to a local dentist would have cost (several thousand dollars). He rather myopically didn’t consider the traveling distance and potential hardship involved because he leads a cozy professional life there at his dental school job and he figured the experimental surgery would be a good experience for the dental student who performed the surgery.
All the mechanics stories got me thinking of this old classic 
Except for that, I don’t have anything to contribute. Sorry.
I was having neurosurgery, and before resealing the skull, they are supposed to put a kind of sealant on the brain to minimize bleeding and/or inflammation.
But – amateur hour – they forgot, and there was significant hemorrhaging.
When I went back they gave it a steam clean and brand new piece of skull for no charge.
FYI, the definition of “professional”:
Adjective
Of, relating to, or connected with a profession.
Noun
A person engaged or qualified in a profession.
Synonyms
adjective. vocational - occupational
noun. pro - practitioner - specialist
Don’t you think they teach the trades in universities? If not, it might be better that way. 
So enlighten us with stories about lawyers, doctors, newspaper editors, university administrators, etc., who have screwed things up.
C’mon, put your money where your mouth is.
Anyone who flatly tells you “thats not my job” without at least making some sincere effort to direct you to whos job it is
AMEN!!!
Haha, thanks for the laugh 
Loved it.
Last year we purchased a new washer and dryer and the guys installing it mixed up the hot and cold water. Even though it was differentiated by red & blue PEX tubing.
I never had an encounter with a lawyer that didn’t end badly for myself.
I worked with doctors in surgery for many years, many of whom were not nice people.
I worked in hospitals most of my life, and have yet to meet a decent hospital administrator. Most of my managers were terrible.
That’s it for the stories, but I’d love to see a thread about bad university educated professionals, and no, I’m not starting one.
I worked part-time as a lab assistant for a professor (in a narrow niche field of study) who was internationally reknowned for his jerkish behavior, in particular for sexually harassing his female grad students and assistants, among many other obnoxious behaviors. I personally, with my own ears, heard two of his grad students talk of committing suicide. He deliberately tried to obstruct one of them from getting her PhD by refusing to read a draft of her dissertation proposal (or something) in time for some deadline – and I personally discussed it with another professor of my acquaintance, who suggested that she could take it directly to the department head to get around that. (She did.) We were visited for a week by a professor from another University half the nation away, who later was reputed to have said “Wherever he goes, his reputation precedes him like a tidal wave” (actual alleged quotation).
Not sure if this all falls under the description of “clueless”. More like “unethical”. That other professor that I talked to called him “sick” and told me that every major university has two or three of these, and that everyone throughout the university knows who they are.