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!

 

[dan86]

This'll be fun!

 

[Fast&Rough]

Take the fuse out the kettle
Got handed the element
Went back and kettle lead still in bubble wrap in the box

 

[Octopus]

Hum, send him to the stores to ask for a long weight (wait)!

 

[trev]

Installing outside lights while the wood butchers were fitting roof trusses to a bungalow next door, one of them calls down to me "Have you seen my cordless extension" He got a polite but firm f off but then asked me if I could do without my apprentice for a while, he was as much use as a man off so I said fine. He came round the corner just then and the wood butcher asked him the same question, "What colour is it" he asked
We had him bouncing round the site for over an hour.

 

[mark ju]

One lad I worked with for a while springs to mind here. To be fair the lad was keener to learn than most and after only a month in the job asked me when he was going to be allowed to do a three phase db!
Shortly after he started he asked if he could borrow my sds to fix something back. Ten minutes later he said the drill was broken and stuck in the wall. He'd had it on chase only and managed to drive a 6mm ads bit into the wall right up to the hilt so to speak.

 

[Outspoken]

I have a joke about apprentices of today = They think they known it all, have seen it all and should be paid as much as me!!

The reality is they know faff all, seen faff all and should pay us for the time we spend putting right their monumental cock ups!!

 

[Octopus]

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

 

[willieboy]

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

 

[mark ju]

Whilst working on a school refurb with my brother, we had an apprentice who like most lads was always texting or staring at his phone.
Now this did kind of annoy my brother and he told nipper to leave it in his pocket and not get it out again. Ten minutes later the lad is on his steps with most of his upper body above a suspended ceiling. Thought he could get away by texting like that!
Bruv took the phone of him and told him to f*** off and sit in the van out of the way. Ten minutes later it dawned on him that there was a collection of newspapers and magazines in the van. Sure enough, nipper was feet up on the dash fully engrossed in nuts magazine. Bless!

 

[RyanCheetham]

To be fair to my apprentice he comes from a more academic family and has no grasp of basic tools yet but he is very keen to learn, and does everything he is asked just not always very well. He only gets his phone out when i get mine out or we stop for coffee

 

[mark ju]

Not so much an apprentice, more an improver. I was asked by the foreman to spend a bit of time and go over the basics of conduit work. Don't need any help says the lad, I'm the tube king!
Crack on then, said I, brand new bender and quite simple bends to do. I popped in an hour later to see how he's doing and there's a pile of off cuts on the floor where he'd bent tube in the middle and just cut the ends off to suit.
So I showed him the basics, and he said your method won't work with my bender cos there's no marks on the former!

 

[Gage]

I was superglued to a spot in the workshop once, they poured bottles of it all over where they knew I'd stand and I didn't even notice, after sawing what I needed to I was left for a long stand! It was actually unbelievably hard to get my laced tight boots off.

 

[guest119]

Heard a story years ago about a fresh lad drilling masonry who keeled over because he was terrified of the drill machine and was holding his breath as he drilled.

 

[Sintra]

Have you ever seen anyone trying to power a 110V 9 inch grinder by plugging it into an electric scissor lift.

Told this guy to get a stihl saw to cut up some cable (nearest power about 80M away). He came out with a grinder and a scissor lift.