what did you catch your apprentices with or get caught yourself.i.ego and get a long weight !
pugmyre,
May 31, 12:49pm
About 35 years ago I had one real bright apprentice that seemed to know everything.I told him I had a real big problem with a grinder, and asked if he could go to the engineer's supply shop for a "Tin of Grinding Sparks".He came back a little annoyed.I got another guy to find out if Tingeys Paint Shop in Palmerston North stocked "Tarten Paint".It seemed they don't.
bjmh,
May 31, 1:35pm
i had a mate whos boss sent him for a long weight,mate went to the pictures for the afternoon.boss was not happy when he came back
berg,
May 31, 1:42pm
Got sent for a windscreen rubber stretcher, and I fell for it.
bjmh,
May 31, 3:14pm
i had an apprentice who had heard the saying " a twat like a horse collar" this young guy takes his girl friend and her mother out for dinner to a western theme restaurant,mum sits down and on the wall above her head is a big leather thing,apprentice asks the waiter "whats that on the wall" waiter replies"a horse collar" young fella justs about kills himself with laughter,but can't explain to his mother in lawwhy he's laughing.
gunhand,
May 31, 3:19pm
I would lovesomeone to ask me to go get some tarten paint. they would soon have a couple of thousand dollers worth of "tarten" paint on there hands.
kandjaja,
May 31, 3:36pm
When the old man served his trade as a mechanic in Blenheim there was a sack of scrap cast iron that did the rounds of all the garages - it was called the 'rising tool' - heavy as a bastard he reckoned. The apprentice was sent on the shop bicycle to such and such a garage to get the rising tool.
c.o.services,
May 31, 4:16pm
Sending the apprentice for a "Sky Hook" always seemed to work a treat!
gunhand,
May 31, 4:23pm
Best you research that, they are available. Its what hangs on the end of a crane or similer. Wouldnt be cheep either.
glenn_michelle,
May 31, 4:55pm
and a sky hook is what butchers hang carcasses on
berg,
May 31, 4:58pm
Where did your "old man" work! Did my time at Wadscos many years ago.
motorway,
May 31, 5:32pm
I got hung from the rafters and "Marfak" ed.
cypherboy,
May 31, 5:36pm
I know one where the boss convinced his boy that the trolley jack needed a COF to operate and could he take it down to VTNZ and get one.
berg,
May 31, 6:01pm
I got "tubbed" in the tyreshop water bath. Another regular was coming back from holiday to find your toolbox completely upside down. I fixed the toolbox tipper by filling his toolbox through a rivet in the side with grease from the truck shop grease-gun. Lets just say, he didn't have rusty tools for quite some time.
m16d,
May 31, 6:35pm
Just remember, apprentice's have long memories and some of this stuff will come back to haunt you.
mk3zephyr,
May 31, 6:35pm
When i was an Engineer in the Navy we were at sea once and gave one of the newbies a grease gun. I told him to go up to the bridge and ask the officer of the watch for permission to grease the ships bearing. A bloke i knew who was on the bridge at the time told me later that the Captain was there and when this young bloke turned up and asked the question they said he was just about rolling around on the deck in fits of laughter. It must have stuck with the captain as he mentioned it when i went up for my promotion. Anyway others we did was to weld blokes toolboxes to the deck in the workshop, go to stores for a long weight, striped paint, a box of volts and amps etc etc,. The chefs used to send their newbies up top with a bowl of milk to feed the Cats (Seacat missiles) or send them down to the boiler romm with bags of rubbish to burn in the boiler furnaces. i also used to send guys to the stores to get a henway as well
paull,
May 31, 7:03pm
we sent the apprentice to the local hospital , the job was to fix the wheel on the menstraul cycle, hahahahah the ladies up there thought it was a hell of a joke
2get1,
May 31, 7:10pm
old ones used years ago, send them out for a left handed screwdriver, a tin of barber poll paint, the well used "long wait" a tin of compression and back in the day when all Vw's were aircooled a radiator cap for one
hondalova,
May 31, 8:10pm
im a apprentice, i went into parts room, asked parts manager for some spark plugs for a 6920 Rops. he look for 10 minutes then he said he cant find a listing for them. about 5 mechanics were in the room by then.BTW a 6920 Rops is a John Deere cabless tractor.
rjgmjs,
May 31, 8:17pm
At one of my old jobs, all the new young blokes were sent to the Boiler House, to get "a bucket of steam". off they would go with there empty buckets, funny az.
_peas,
May 31, 8:22pm
12" reproduction tool.Sounds legitimate. it really isn't.Especially if you send them to the oldest boy in the workshop. and get him to ask if he has a black one.
mk3zephyr,
May 31, 8:50pm
Yip got that when i was a young newbie, mind you i was a bit smarter and got my bucket of steam and placed a wet towel over the bucket, arrived back and presented them with my bucket, They thought that was great as no one previously had thought of doing that, Later in my career i had to train a few of the not so new blokes up to run Auxiliary machinery, One bloke i had to train up on the diesel generators was a laugh, V12 twin Turbo Paxman Diesels driving a 500kw genset, Doing the prestart checks i told him to go check the distributor cap was secured and the spark plug leads were intact, off he went and reported back that he couldnt find them Hmmmm. Anyway fired up one of the diesels and put it on load and on these particular engines they had an individual injector pump for each cylinder than ran off a common camshaft, after about 3-4 hours of running on say 350kw the diesel would dilute the oil in the cambox and diesel would spray out onto the engine heads via the fuel shut off rack creating quite a bit of white smoke, easy fix, just open a drain valve and pour in some fresh oil and the problem would dissapear, Anyway we were sitting in the Auxiliary switchboard room (air conditioned you see) and it was time to go do the hourly readings, i opened the door and the diesel shack was full of white smoke, i pointed this out to the guy i was training and his eyes went wide and he was out of there like a shot and left me to it, needless to say he failed his training on that particular occasion, Couldnt make a decent coffee either the useless prick. He later flooded the Boiler room too, We had eductors that ran off the firemain to suck oil/water etc out of the bilges, They wernt supposed to do it either but since they knew everything decided to, Open the firemain valve and discharge overboard and all went well, nice empty bilges but then he shut the discharge overboard and left the firemain cracked open, He did all this at the start of his 4 hour watch and never went back down there again like he should have each hour, goes off watch and the next guy goes into the boiler room and splash, ended up stuffing the fresh water pumps for the evaporators etc etc and we were supposed to be sailing the next day, ended up getting the boot not long after for doing the same thing on another ship after he was kicked off ours
thejazzpianoma,
May 31, 9:07pm
Genius! So many variations you could do on that theme too. like sending him off to ask for one, and a lesson on how to use it. or tell them to go and get one from Repco because they need to service an Escort.
franc123,
May 31, 9:17pm
The problem with the radiator cap/water pump/radiator hose gag on aircooled VW's is that it sometimes backfires, the lad often comes back from Repco with what he is told is the correct part.
bjmh,
Jun 1, 5:19am
classic. love it
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