# Working with someone who really botched it up

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-someone-who-really-botched-it-up/56119
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 27, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-someone-who-really-botched-it-up/56119 "2001-02-27T23:31:20Z")
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### Author: ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-with-someone-who-really-botched-it-up/56119/1 "2001-02-27T23:31:20Z")

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I used to work with a carpenter who was old-world German and, with his jaundiced view of Americans, constantly berated me for some mistake I made. One time, just after reproaching me for not paying attention to what I was doing, he stepped off a ladder–plunking one foot into a bucket of wet plaster! I never let him forget it, either. 😃  
On the guard job at LACOE, one replacement guard–whom I was to relieve at 4 pm on a Saturday–was so stupid and incompetent I wondered how he knew how to start his vehicle and go to work. When I got there several alarms were tripped. He was nowhere to be seen and one sounded as I approached the desk; I called the alarm company to explain. I never saw him again.  
Another time a guard in the annex down the street called–and I could hear the alarm there wailing. He was Vietnamese and couldn’t understand enough English for me to tell him how to stop it.  
Post here something someone _you_ worked with did, to make you wonder if he needed a _license_ to be that stupid!!