April fools day

[Julie.]

Just thought I would remind people it's April Fools day today.

So ignore anything said and written today, it is likely to be nonsense, so don't trust anyone!!

(Basically it's just like any other day!)

Any decent stories about April fools jokes on apprentices?

We had an apprentice who was sent to the stores for a chalk-line, he thought the foreman was taking the p*** so disappeared for an hour then came back and drew a line on the ground with a piece of chalk, the foreman went absolutely ape...

 

[Baddegg]

Not really April fools but I convinced the young labourer on our site yesterday that wasps make marmite.....bees make honey and wasps make marmite......his face was one of absolute amazement ?

 

[littlespark]

Long stand, glass rivets, sky hook, tartan paint ... heard them all...

 

[Julie.]

Long stand, glass rivets, sky hook, tartan paint ... heard them all...

You mean this tartan paint?

 

[timhoward]

I was training a kid to do PAT testing once and April 1st was his 2nd day. I told him to rotate all the plug-top fuses when pat testing 'to make sure the fuses wear evenly from both ends'. He lasted until 10:30 before the penny dropped.
Another trainer then told him he'd better put them all back in case the client noticed and he obediently did about five before going "hang on....". He wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, poor chap.

 

[Mike Johnson]

How about compass gaps, I dutifully cut out about ten circles of paper and gave them to the chap, I was fifteen at the time, now days it would be seen as bullying. ?

 

[DPG]

Not really April fools but I convinced the young labourer on our site yesterday that wasps make marmite.....bees make honey and wasps make marmite......his face was one of absolute amazement ?

FFS, wasps make marmalade.

 

[Megawatt]

Just thought I would remind people it's April Fools day today.

So ignore anything said and written today, it is likely to be nonsense, so don't trust anyone!!

(Basically it's just like any other day!)

Any decent stories about April fools jokes on apprentices?

We had an apprentice who was sent to the stores for a chalk-line, he thought the foreman was taking the p*** so disappeared for an hour then came back and drew a line on the ground with a piece of chalk, the foreman went absolutely ape...

When I was working in a cotton mill doing electrical maintenance I used to send a apprentice to go to the shop to get me a bucket of steam. The shop manager was in on it to. ?. Everyone have a great weekend

 

[Soi disant]

I read a story once from a guy who when he was an apprentice, house bashing near where his gran lived, knew when they were taking the p***, and used his missions to "go and get...." as cover to do some wiring work at his grans.

He would come back with what they asked for if he could.

Skirting board ladder? Go to a pet shop and buy one of the little ladders for a budgie cage.

A long weight? Hardware store, get a sash window weight.

 

[pc1966]

Another was to get a tin of electrons. Some of the less bright apprentices saw transformer oil being added to thing during assembly (but had no idea what it was or why) and were taken in by the request.

 

[SparkySy]

What about a box of sparks for the grinder, or some magic smoke to refill electrical equipment when the old stuff got let out by mistake!