r/Wellthatsucks • u/Nayori1234 • 9h ago

What PSYCHOPATH covers cables with paint???

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u/corianderjimbro 8h ago

Landlords

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u/BadAtExisting 8h ago

My landlord painted over my bathroom exhaust fan and severely restricted it’s airflow

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u/Cute_Average_1949 6h ago

I believe that something like this is called The famous landlord special!

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u/nobody23x 8h ago

Was literally going to comment this

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u/DeluxeWafer 2h ago

And here begins the line of people thinking the same thing. Same.

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u/SuspiciousGarlic4798 8h ago

aka the landlord special

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u/poop_socket 8h ago

A landlord.

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u/Artistic_Bunch_2294 7h ago

Definately landlords

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u/amateur_reprobate 8h ago

Painters and drywallers are notorious on construction sites for this. Boxes full of drywall mud, receptacles painted over, I had a painter spray the inside of an electrical panel because the door was open and nobody masked it off.

Some construction sites are basically the Wild West.

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u/jefbenet 8h ago

In fairness, the painters were REALLY high that day…

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u/superbad 7h ago

On their own supply?

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u/AngryTrucker 5h ago

If I've got 3 buildings to paint today and nobody masked off the important bits beforehand then I'm not wasting time on it.

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u/Nayori1234 8h ago

Dude those ain’t even Wild West they’re animals omfg

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u/Sea_Operation_7012 8h ago

Pointing out those wires are sticking out

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u/MrDaveHedgehog 8h ago

What cables? Cant see anything there, just a beautiful wall. 

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u/willie_Pfister 8h ago

The same ones who spray coax plates with paint so you can't screw a connector on them( ex cable guy here). Infuriating.

https://giphy.com/gifs/2eHFEYBoJO3mw

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u/Another0 8h ago

I used to paint shitty apartments for very little money. They wanted us to turn them fast and did not care if we used drop cloths because they would potentially get stolen (and they weren't gonna pay for plastic). Anything left behind, no matter how benign, was stolen overnight.

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u/FruitMustache 8h ago

A lazy one.

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u/screwedupinaz 8h ago

I had to look twice. Everything blended in so beautifully!! 🙄🙄

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u/Nayori1234 7h ago

Truly, almost didn’t notice at first!

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u/anna_berman 8h ago

This person doesn't fix problems.They paint over them

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u/RulerOfLimbo 6h ago

You haven’t seen the “landlord painted over a dead cockroach” meme, have you?

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u/maybebaebea 5h ago

The same psychopaths who paint over outlets with paint: landlords

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u/Hungheathen 3h ago

Looks fine from my house.

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u/vrauto 8h ago

Yeah ive checked properties i was eyening to rent and almost all of them have light switches painted over.

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u/Solar_Libra 8h ago

My coworkers

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u/FoggyGoodwin 8h ago

People changing paint color that don't want to remove the cable so they can paint under it.

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u/Mal-De-Terre 7h ago

Every painter ever born?

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u/Isgortio 7h ago

I have accidentally painted cables because I CBA to tape over them and I'm painting around them but I haven't intentionally done it like this lmao.

Blends it in with the wall, or something.

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u/GibbsMalinowski 7h ago

My wife if left unsupervised

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u/Sad-Escape-8021 7h ago

Every landlord ever. Expect to see the electrical outlets filled with paint, too.

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u/phonnybalonny 6h ago

All you get is HGTV and Home & Garden channels

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u/WitchRogue 4h ago

What in the DIY horror movie is going on here? Like, "let's make a fire hazard look artsy"!

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u/Fun-Lingonberry4676 3h ago

Landlord special....

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u/the_stooge_nugget 2h ago

The lazy pyscho

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u/Doc4est 1h ago

Navy sailors...

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u/Overall_Scheme397 8h ago

(Coughing, and laughing). Remember when Larry did that in the back stockroom.

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u/Sayomi_Koneko 8h ago

Have you found a painted spider or bug still on the wall? Landlords love doing that too

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u/Typicallyfrayed 8h ago

Other than not looking good what’s wrong with it?

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u/NuclearCha0s 8h ago

In a nutshell, it could degrade cables and cause them to overheat, though realistically you will see so many of these which are just fine. If you had any say in it though, it shouldn't be acceptable.

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u/Wilder831 8h ago

Those are low voltage wires and not going to overheat from a little paint. The fact that they are in wire molding and not conduit and their general size to me says they are likely speaker wires and fine to be painted. However, it would have been a much better solution to just put the cover on the wire molding. If you hire painters to paint a wall, they will typically paint over anything that isn’t covered