Yikes. That had to hurt like hell!

You got it Bob!  Hence the quotes around the word "electrician!"  When you pick these guys up at 7-11 to work on your houses, you get what you pay for.  It does make more work for me though!  Ten years ago I never did new home inspections.  Now I am doing 8 or 10 a month, pre-drywall and then the final walk through.  It is amazing the kinds of stuff I am finding on both inspections.  The other day I had a new home with a fridge that was on, then off, then on again.  I had not seen that before, so I put on my note pad that the fridge was erratic and needed to be checked.  Later I turned on the kitchen light switch and the fridge started up!  Paco had wired the fridge outlet to the light switch (!?)... you have to try hard to do that.  Even the real electrician who called me the next day (asking how I found it) said he had never seen that before.  We all just shake our heads.  People are only just now figuring out the costs to our society these "construction professionals" are hiding in our new homes...  I don't know about where you are, but here it is a REAL problem.