tricks played on apprentices

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I can remember being sent for- a long stand-a sky hook- a 13amp Rawlplug-a left handed screwdriver. And yes I did go wait for them all at the stores counter, especially the long stand. Ah! to be so naïve again.

Any more tricks .
 
We had a lad start at the boat yard and it almost got silly.
First we sent him to the foreman for a long weight. Foreman told him to wait by his office for two and a half HOURS!
Sent him to the local building suppliers for a bubble for the level.
The best one was when we sent him to the engineers next door for a bucket of sparks for the grinder. Graham sent him back asking did we want left hand red ones or right hand blue ones.
He was sent back for red left hand sparks but Graham had him come back with a message they were out of red ones and would blue ones do until they had red ones back in stock!
The lad was a complete moron as he fell for them all and didn't get what was going on.
 
Andy808 said:
We had a lad start at the boat yard and it almost got silly.
First we sent him to the foreman for a long weight. Foreman told him to wait by his office for two and a half HOURS!
Sent him to the local building suppliers for a bubble for the level.
The best one was when we sent him to the engineers next door for a bucket of sparks for the grinder. Graham sent him back asking did we want left hand red ones or right hand blue ones.
He was sent back for red left hand sparks but Graham had him come back with a message they were out of red ones and would blue ones do until they had red ones back in stock!
The lad was a complete moron as he fell for them all and didn't get what was going on.
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And he might be your boss someday.:whistle:
 
When my brother was a young surveyor an apprentice from an office at the opposite end of George Street in Edinburgh was sent to borrow an instrument with a bubble level.
They took great pains to tell him that it was a very expensive piece of equipment and that if the bubble slipped below the bottom level it would shatter the glass.

Poor lad walked the length of George street holding the instrument in front of him like a cross and never taking his eyes off the bubble.

Many's a young greenkeeper was sent to the mechanic for the big weight.
 
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Slight change of tack but when I owned a Groundworks firm, one of my foremen asked if I fancied breakfast, I said yes but needed to use the portaloo first, once inside he 'parked' the bucket of a 20tonne 360 against the door and went to the cafe.

As a good boss I saw the funny side!! A week or two later I saw him disappear to the loo so with a bit of help we ratchet strapped the door and craned him about 20 foot in the air, left him there for 2 hours. He didn't seem to see the funny side when we let him down.

Ah happy days
 
ArnoldArmChewer said:
Slight change of tack but when I owned a Groundworks firm, one of my foremen asked if I fancied breakfast, I said yes but needed to use the portaloo first, once inside he 'parked' the bucket of a 20tonne 360 against the door and went to the cafe.

As a good boss I saw the funny side!! A week or two later I saw him disappear to the loo so with a bit of help we ratchet strapped the door and craned him about 20 foot in the air, left him there for 2 hours. He didn't seem to see the funny side when we let him down.

Ah happy days
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Right ........ What's Elf and Safetees number..........!
 
When I was started out as a sparky I was only 17 But luckily for me I had a some smaller lads working with us. We used to pin them down and clip the megger tester to their ear lobes and give em a hit. I can still hear the screams haha. We would also pack them into the site safe if they got mouthy and let em have half hour in the sin bin.
 
Used to work in a kitchen and during an audit we got the bosses son (he was about 12-13 at the time so becoming a pain) to sit in the back counting frozen peas we'd decanted. He did it for about 2 hours then the head chef walked in took some out and made him start all over again.
 
D4RK1 said:
When I was started out as a sparky I was only 17 But luckily for me I had a some smaller lads working with us. We used to pin them down and clip the megger tester to their ear lobes and give em a hit. I can still hear the screams haha. We would also pack them into the site safe if they got mouthy and let em have half hour in the sin bin.
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Ah- the old electrocution-induced screams and imprisonment gag! Happy days.
 
This was not at work but me and some mates were renovating my house and my little cousin came in and asked to help so I asked him to find me the left handed measuring tape, for about 15 minutes he went around picking measuring tapes up saying ''nope that's right hand''
 
We played the box of blue sparks trick many years ago; did phone ahead to stores though who kindly filled a box with bearings and told the apprentice not to let them bang into each other as he walked back otherwise they could heat up and explode. The journey took on Ben Crane proportions of time wasting...

The best one we undertook was to send the same apprentice for a tour of the factory. The chap doing it was well in on the joke and told the lad that for safety's sake they would need to hold hands for the duration. He affected a camp, but serious tone and walked him round most of the site. Priceless.
 
We set 2 glass collectors the task of filling 2 bin liners each (1 from either floor) with air from the nightclub which was being sent off for testing - which looking back now probably wasn't so far fetched being in the days when you could smoke in such places!
 
D4RK1 said:
When I was started out as a sparky I was only 17 But luckily for me I had a some smaller lads working with us. We used to pin them down and clip the megger tester to their ear lobes and give em a hit. I can still hear the screams haha. We would also pack them into the site safe if they got mouthy and let em have half hour in the sin bin.
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Your parents must be so proud.
 
Some of these are hilarious.........not!

There are Jokes and there is humour, some of these are just blatant bullying and intimidation!
 
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