hahaha yea robbo, i remember starting that thread, funny as hell. o to be an apprentice,,, apprentices have changed in this day and age tho and if you give an apprentice shit today like we had done to us the buggers go pscyo and nut out, which is even funnier cause then they get more shit thrown at them
bjmh,
Jun 1, 11:42am
i had a young car painter worked near to my workshop,he wanted to get his firearms license so i introduced him to a local cop,eventually after all the rigmarole the cop rang me and said to tell this guy to come and pick up his license.i talked the cop into having the young guy on.When tyg went to get his license he was made to run around the streets of our town,he had to carry a pack with rocks in it.to test his fitness for hunting.Two cops drove behind him calling out pace times over their loud speaker,we hid down the road and watched.what a crack up.
mykl,
Jun 1, 12:32pm
I'm in the Air Force and one of the favourite wind ups is to send the newbie off for a bucket of 'propwash', although the best one I've heard of was the SNCO who sent his 'baggie'down to the Medical section to ask the nursing officer for a length of fallopian tube.
woodsy2,
Jun 1, 12:40pm
I was taking smoko orders and was often asked by the guys could I get them 4 buttered ovaries!
berg,
Jun 1, 12:52pm
I made a "flat battery" by cutting the top and bottom sections off a battery and sticking them back together without the centre or guts. Used to hand it to mechanical dummies and tell them to go to the parts department and get me a new one because this one was flat.
toxicgreen.,
Jun 1, 2:11pm
I used to do smoko runs,i had a plan,,, i,d place the orders on one loop of 3 shops then go for a 25 minuet zoom in the company car,,get bac late with food and blame the shops,,I wanted the unwanted job.,sweet ride.cruzy morning.
sr2,
Jun 1, 2:38pm
Worked in a place had a set of wooden stocks that we used to bolt to the concrete lamppost that was outside the lunch bar next door to our engineering shop. When an apprentice came out of his time he was liable to find himself in the stocks at lunchtime with his overalls around his ankles and his tackle on display for all the office girls to comment on! It was all harmless fun and nobody took it too personally, your workmates were your real mates. I??
taipan4,
Jun 1, 4:50pm
we had one apprentice who was a bit cheeky , length of 25mm pvc conduit in one arm of his overalls and out the other& a line belt around his middle and hooked up to the workshop crane so his feet were just touching the ground, these days we would all end up in court.workplace harrassement
unbeatabull,
Jun 1, 5:02pm
A few that Ive experienced were when the boy was helping with a transflush, the guy he was helping told him to get about a metre of Fallopian tube to run from the trans to the machine, the girl in parts dept wasn't too impressed haha. Also striped paint, Can of compression, Elbow grease, a "Rattle Gun License" before you are allowed to use your Rattle gun in the workshop. Another thing we do at work that isn't exactly related to apprentices, but when someones getting married we tie them up and get the whole dealership out there to witness and participate in covering and throwing various food items and stuff on them, then leave them parked out front by one of the busy roads in CHCH for a couple of hours in the sun to let the smell and everything to set in
dmoney73,
Jun 1, 5:33pm
We always break into the cars of our new boys when we are allowed one and wire the horn into the indicators, had plenty of laughs from that or jack the wheels just off the ground then watch the look on there faces when they giving car a boot full and going no where.Rubber glove on there exhaust is another fav that makes them shit .
unbeatabull,
Jun 1, 5:35pm
That reminds me, another one we did was run a wire from the headlights to left indicator in the Trailer Plug, took it out the next day, then a day later did it to the right indicator and headlights, took it out over the weekend then did it to brake lights and headlights haha.
roys351,
Jun 1, 6:25pm
i sent one to get half a metre of fallopeon tube
outbidyou2,
Jun 1, 9:30pm
builders apprentice - get the bubbles for the level
bubbles52,
Jun 2, 7:25am
i had that done to me, but it backfired when my insurance company sent the dickhead the bill for the repairs
johnf_456,
Jun 2, 7:36am
Same I have had a few try it on and they have always come off worse when they get the bill to fix what they vandalized. Department of labour take a lot of this sort of stuff very seriously now days.
desertcolt07,
Jun 2, 7:57am
was butchering at a slaughter house on a raise-and-fall platform high enough that OSH required a safety harness (works like a seat belt if you fall off). im teaching this young kid the job and on the last carcass, i yank his safety line making it lock and drop the platform we are standing on.he gets to hang in mid-air while i go for smoke-o
bae13,
Jun 5, 5:56pm
few years ago i was pulling an alternator off a car and pretended i was having a bugger of a time getting it off. i said to our boy i need a special wrench with a special angle to undo bolts i said to the boy to run around to another workshop where a chick ( i knew her) was a mechanic. i said to the boy tell her that i said she has a massive box and you will need a testical wrench. ha ha ha she rang me and was laughing so hard becase she said as he said it the penny dropped for him and he was all embarrased, he didnt talk to me for a week after that
ema1,
Jun 5, 6:49pm
How about a left handed Crescent wrench!
ema1,
Jun 5, 6:52pm
Always remember a first day on the job concrete worker being asked about the concrete he placed, why was it upside down! Go figure took quite a while to realize he was being had!
amasser,
Jun 7, 6:50pm
Banking junior, as they were called way back then, was sent to our branch for some Verbal Agreement Forms. Knowing he was smarter than me, I suggested that such agreements weren't written and, as expected, he laughed at me. So, we gave him an envelope of blank paper and he went away happy. Next time he came was for some travel discount vouchers or similar (about time of the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch). Department Head hadn't heard of them so sent some aspirins with a message - "Your need is greater than mine'. When received at other branch, manager was embarrassed to open this with a customer sitting at his desk. Forms arrived week later.
bexx13,
May 21, 11:45pm
I worked for an engineering company when I left school, and the boss was a real maggot so when it was my turn to go and make his morning smoko coffee I used a sparrow that had conveniently flown into the smoko room and died to stir his cuppa. I pissed myself laughing the whole time he sat there and drank it.
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