apprentices

[RyanCheetham]

Whats your best apprentice stories guys? I sent our new one to the van today to get the battery charger for the drill and he came back with the cordless circulaw saw, he needs alot of training!

 

[Dipzy]

Anyone got a skirting ladder?

 

[stranded]

Thats the sort of apprentice ill try not to be... Im never really phone anyhow, allright on a break maybe but not on a job... And i know better to not be plugging saws into bloody scissor lifts haha


Anyone in Northern Ireland lookin an apprentice then? ;-)

 

[stranded]

Can tell you what a bloke done to me on some experience i had with a fire alarm company...was like he done me over... He went for a coffee with a girl he ws meetin, told me to grab my lunch from the van and whatnot... He went, i went 2mins after,he'd locked van, took the keys, ended up sitting out the back of a chemist on the stairs with a dribble of water for over an hour... Oh...and the place had rats... Everywhere... Heard them running... Rat poison everywhere, traps... (one nearly had my hand when i lifted a ceiling tile...)

 

[Me Mark]

My experience with apprentices is to have only one and you have half a man if you have two you have nothing as the play together all day

When I was an apprentice back in the seventies a Sparky said to me "A good apprentice would ideally have no legs and one arm that way you could take him to the job he wont dissapear and he can hand you your tools"

 

[Geordie Spark]

Take their phones away, they'll be distracted less!

Tell me about it!!

I'm retired, but for the past year or so I've been helping my builder mate with a house he bought for himself. It's been extended sideways to provide a garage, extra bedroom & utility room, and backwards to provide a bigger dining room & kitchen.

My role in all of this has been all the leccy, plumbing & heating work, and I've had his son "helping" me as frankly I'm too knackered now to do chasing, core drilling, ripping floorboards up etc. I have to say that this lad is a goodun - he is able to think a bit and keen to work - however EVERYTHING he does is done with a mobile phone jammed between his shoulder and ear.

Today, I had him core drilling a 5" hole for a boiler flue and there he was balanced on a step ladder with phone in its usual place trying to shove the drill through the wall almost with one hand.

 

[Geordie Spark]

My apprentice was asked to go to the shop for 20 Lambert and Butler, he was told if they didn't have lambert just get anything, I received a can of cola lol partly my fault he was only showing his initiative ha ha

That's reminded me of when I was the youngest apprentice aged barely 16 (we left school & started work at 15 then) and it was me who got sent out by the older lads for ciggies & sweets etc.

A much older lad - 23 I think - who was well known for being "careful"with money and had recently become engaged sent me to the barber's shop just around the corner with a 10 shilling note to buy him a packet of Durex. I had never even seen a condom before - never mind bought them - so I rather nervously approached the barber and asked for a packet of them. "Three shillings or three and ninepence?" he asked. This threw me a bit, so bearing in mind the necessity for thrift, I asked him "What's the difference?" ..... "Ninepence" he replied ....

 

[tidyboiler]

That's reminded me of when I was the youngest apprentice aged barely 16 (we left school & started work at 15 then) and it was me who got sent out by the older lads for ciggies & sweets etc.

A much older lad - 23 I think - who was well known for being "careful"with money and had recently become engaged sent me to the barber's shop just around the corner with a 10 shilling note to buy him a packet of Durex. I had never even seen a condom before - never mind bought them - so I rather nervously approached the barber and asked for a packet of them. "Three shillings or three and ninepence?" he asked. This threw me a bit, so bearing in mind the necessity for thrift, I asked him "What's the difference?" ..... "Ninepence" he replied ....

What a coincidence, I didn't know what condoms were for when I was 15 either.........

 

[tino1888]

Just the other day

Go to purchase some materials out b&q. Beeped all the stuff.. Go to enter cash. Machine not accepting, starts beeping & flashing mad. Just as the assistant is about to come over , I see the apprentice leaning nearly sitting on the scales.

Said he Didn't know it was scales.!!

 

[guest119]

I went into a chemist when I was 15 and said,......a packet of 3 please miss.....assistant battleaxe said......DONT YOU MISS ME.........I said ok then a packet of four.

Boydy mg_smile:

 

[Geordie Spark]

What a coincidence, I didn't know what condoms were for when I was 15 either.........

Yes pet ..... so I've heard. :nonod:

 

[Sparkymark123]

One of our apprentices was asked to disconnect a socket, when the sparky returned he'd literally took a socket apart into pieces!

 

[brizospark]

We had an apprentice catch 'air samples' in big polythene bags with the names of different departments on them. We sent him to all departments through this factory and told him he had to do a short run catch air in the bag and then cable tie the top of the bag quickly so as not to let the air out.

After about an hour he came bundling back to workshop with about a dozen bags of air.

When he asked how the get the air out the bags he was informed that they extracted it with a big syringe!

Ha ha those were the days