the funniest thing the aprentice has done
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Put a drill bit into a Hilti the wrong way round?
Fitter marked the 12x12 flue on wall and hung template on adjacent wall, told apprentice to bang out flue, and yes he went int next doors bedroom.
25+ years ago, Mains Mersey MPT
25+ years ago, Mains Mersey MPT
Just been out in the garden for a fag, and started thinking about the funny/dangerous things that have happened in the last 35+years.
The list is pretty good and at the time results were hilarious. Started life as an apprentice on a push bike with the old gas company and they trained us together, two clueless idiots on bikes=1 fitter, was there reasoning.
1.Ease and Grease maincock, forget to turn off gas.
2Loosen joint (soldered), oops gas still on.
3Convince fitter you can drive van, steam through wall & demolish garden.
4Running around with knickers on head, get caught.
5Gas to water main, fill street.
6Bung system without bungs, oops
7Fall asleep in bed, (customers)get caught.
8.Pull out neighbours flue liner
If any off the perpurtrators regognise these crimes I promise not to name or shame you..
Oh the good old days, life was so much fun.
The list is pretty good and at the time results were hilarious. Started life as an apprentice on a push bike with the old gas company and they trained us together, two clueless idiots on bikes=1 fitter, was there reasoning.
1.Ease and Grease maincock, forget to turn off gas.
2Loosen joint (soldered), oops gas still on.
3Convince fitter you can drive van, steam through wall & demolish garden.
4Running around with knickers on head, get caught.
5Gas to water main, fill street.
6Bung system without bungs, oops
7Fall asleep in bed, (customers)get caught.
8.Pull out neighbours flue liner
If any off the perpurtrators regognise these crimes I promise not to name or shame you..
Oh the good old days, life was so much fun.
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Soggy_weetabix
I have mentioned this before, but after leaving my then apprentice in a loft.... he found some ping pong balls.
The then closed his eyes and superglued them to his eyelids
He was then temporary blinded, as the balls prevented his eyes from opening.
The then closed his eyes and superglued them to his eyelids
He was then temporary blinded, as the balls prevented his eyes from opening.
very close
, mine had it the right way on hammer drill to fix 4 svp's onto the wall, he went through 2 new bits, when I checked he had it on reverse setting. When i was an apprentice I dropped a hip tile straight through a conservatory roof
Soggy, Where did the superglue come from, you must have laughed for weeks.
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That's why they call him Soggy! He laughed so much his hanky was dripping with tears...
nearly crushed the other apprentice to death with a lifter..
we were both in it running cable across the roof purlins for outside lights at a new store..
I ducked under the girder, he didn't see it, I kept on driving and felt him kicking my ankles.. turned round to see him pinned between the lifters handrail and the girder.. he was kind of blue...
we were both in it running cable across the roof purlins for outside lights at a new store..
I ducked under the girder, he didn't see it, I kept on driving and felt him kicking my ankles.. turned round to see him pinned between the lifters handrail and the girder.. he was kind of blue...
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Soggy_weetabix
My toolbox.
He was up there to remove tanks. Instead, he removed his brain and pulled that stunt. May I just add that he was 29 at the time... married and with a small child.
I did find it funny (once I got the bleedin balls off), and I can now warn my son, that if you decide to superglue things to your eyelids, you will literally cry with pain if I remove them.
Dave
Not sure if I get to post in here since it wasn't an apprentice as in a trade, but when I was nursing, we had this new student nurse on the ward. She was told to go and warm a bag of blood for a patient that was getting a transfusion.
Shortly later, there was the most horrible smell going through the ward.
We tracked it down to the kitchen, where this dingbat had cut open the bag of blood, poured it into a pot and was warming nicely on the cooker.................
Shortly later, there was the most horrible smell going through the ward.
We tracked it down to the kitchen, where this dingbat had cut open the bag of blood, poured it into a pot and was warming nicely on the cooker.................
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I often cringe when I think back to my first days at work, I had to make the tea for 15 other painters. There was a huge kettle which I boiled on an old gas stove in a utility room. I got quite provicient, lit the gas one day went for a pee come back hmm kettle still not boiled, sat their reading page 3, tea cans at the ready, jack the foreman comes in to see where the tea is.... waiting for kettle I said.. whats that smell says jack as he lifts kettle drops it quick the bottom of the kettle had melted Forgot to put water in
Forgot to put water in When I was 17 I was labouring on a site where they were refitting a nightclub. Me and my mate were asked to knock a hole in a wall in the basement, the guy that showed us where it was mistakenly assumed that we had been told what size hole they wanted.
An hour later feeling happy with a job well done we went to find the guy to show him our handy work, he looked mortified and quickly went to get the foreman. After a huge *******ing and nearly getting kicked off site we found out that the hole required was for an RSJ, we had knocked down an entire supporting wall in the basement
An hour later feeling happy with a job well done we went to find the guy to show him our handy work, he looked mortified and quickly went to get the foreman. After a huge *******ing and nearly getting kicked off site we found out that the hole required was for an RSJ, we had knocked down an entire supporting wall in the basement
I used to know one naive apprentice ( I was an apprentice at the time too but had only done just over a year compared to his three years ).
Anyway in the toolshop there was a large guillotine which had a variable resistance starter. Basically this was a bunch of resistors in oil and a handle on the side to vary the amount of resistance to the motor.
To start the machine you would put the handle to the top and hold the start button in then gradually move the handle to lower the resistance and increase the motor speed at which point the start circuit would latch in.
When he saw me starting it he said that wasn't the way to do it and proceed to do it the way he had been shown which was to pump the resistance handle up and down for 30 seconds, breaking into quite a sweat!
People were so cruel back then
Anyway in the toolshop there was a large guillotine which had a variable resistance starter. Basically this was a bunch of resistors in oil and a handle on the side to vary the amount of resistance to the motor.
To start the machine you would put the handle to the top and hold the start button in then gradually move the handle to lower the resistance and increase the motor speed at which point the start circuit would latch in.
When he saw me starting it he said that wasn't the way to do it and proceed to do it the way he had been shown which was to pump the resistance handle up and down for 30 seconds, breaking into quite a sweat!
People were so cruel back then
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Labourer goes outside to a cigarette break...stood minding his own business he gets hit in the cheek bone with a golf ball from the adjacent course...he was wearing his helmet at the time and he didn’t look too well and was sent to A&E
Agency Labourer part of demo team knocking wall down. One knocking wall down with sledge hammer whilst another stands behind, take off helmet to wipe brow, just as the matey boy lunges back with hammer straight into guys head...like a scene out of Laurel and Hardy.
Labourer was using some expanding foam at floor level and put it on top of a 10KVa site transformer ...the foam in the can continued to creep out of the nozzle. As Labourer stands up he brushed his head against the expanding foam nozzle and ends up with an umpa Loompa bobble on his head. I pointed out that he had foam on his head, which he instantly ran his fingers through his hair (as you would with hair gel) which instantly set the foam. Needless to say there was only one way to get it out and that was to cut all his hair off.
Labourer goes outside to a cigarette break...stood minding his own business he gets hit in the cheek bone with a golf ball from the adjacent course...he was wearing his helmet at the time and he didn’t look too well and was sent to A&E
Agency Labourer part of demo team knocking wall down. One knocking wall down with sledge hammer whilst another stands behind, take off helmet to wipe brow, just as the matey boy lunges back with hammer straight into guys head...like a scene out of Laurel and Hardy.
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