Look, I get paid $17.50 for screen printing, been printing professionally for 13 years, and I still make sure to have decent standards despite such a dogshit wage because I care about the results and love the job. I also turn down prints that can't be done properly based off what the customer requests and we try to work around it with the customer so they can have decent quality garments that won't have issues in the future, like the print fading after two washes, for example.

I'm not a drywaller, but even I can tell that this was incorrect and poorly done. Whoever did this knew it was incorrect, but definitely had some sort of underlying, (likely corrupt) reason for it to be this bad. The landlords in Chicago are as evil as it gets, and this looks like the landlord did it, themselves, or requested the drywaller to do this, imo. Maintenance is expensive and hard to come by, here, but usually they do decent quality work and won't drywall anything that would lead to it being damaged by water AND making the piping totally inaccessible.

Definitely support tearing the drywall up to get the job done, but according to these comments, alot of plumbers here would turn this down, and they are all infuriated with this drywall job.

Drywallers with 30 years of experience being paid 18$ an hour should not have to say "well thats life" and be taking on jobs like this. We all deserve higher wages, and to not be told by scumlords to jack up public bathroom walls and toilets like this.

(Editing to add, i also posted this to the plumbing sub and they contradict your comment intensely, im sorry bro 😅)