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Tricks played on apprentices?

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  • 01-08-2009 11:29am
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    El Guapo!
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    I just remembered something that happened a couple of years ago. While we were all working we got the new apprentice to go down to the motor factors to ask for a flux capacitor. He did this and made a tit of himself! We also done the old classics on him like getting him to ask for sky hooks, a bucket of steam, a can of stripey spray paint and sent him to the shop to get a soup sandwich etc. :p
    So it got me thinking.....does anybody else have funny stories or tricks played on you as an apprentice/newbie in work??


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    muckwarrior
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    Sounds like he's genuinely retarded.


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    El Guapo!
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    muckwarrior wrote: »
    Sounds like he's genuinely retarded.
    He wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the toolbox.....


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    does anybody else have funny stories or tricks played on you as an apprentice/newbie in work??


    No.

    Except that time we got that lad with meat spin - but I ain't saying anymore than that!. (he counted to nearly fifty before the penny dropped).
    .


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    CreepingDeath
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    One of my sisters worked in a shop near a garage.
    This young lad came in getting snacks for the lads and asks her if she has any "chocolate ovaries". She fell around the place laughing at the idiot.


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    cherryghost
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    he should have came to me. I have plenty of flux capacitors and deloreans here.


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    Joey the lips
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    What like the long stand and the glass hammer!


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    irelandrover
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    When I worked in a kitchen we had the new guy chopping flour for an hour before the boss caught him


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    trad
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    A skirting board ladder

    A long stand

    Left handed screwdriver


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    Enright
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    oh the memories

    did the stand at one work place, th eguy in the stores wrapped up an empty box, gave it a part number and sent the guy back

    appearently one can buy soup sandwiches these days!


    chololate fireguard
    underwater hairdryer

    to mention but a few


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    InkSlinger67
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    trad wrote: »
    A long stand

    Its very long!


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    imola94
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    a bucket of sparks for the angle grinder

    a bubble for the spirit level
    :D:D:D:D


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    muckwarrior
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    He wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the toolbox.....
    Went to school with a guy like that. One day the lads sent him up to the woodwork teacher to ask for a round square, a glass hammer and 12 rubber nails.


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    El Guapo!
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    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    One of my sisters worked in a shop near a garage.
    This young lad came in getting snacks for the lads and asks her if she has any "chocolate ovaries". She fell around the place laughing at the idiot.
    That reminds me we also sent him to the shop to ask for strawberry lilets! :D


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    ronnie3585
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    A tin of compression.

    A box of elbow grease.


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    Shacklebolt
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    I know a man who was working on a building site and was told to fill the dumper with diesel. For anybody who doesn't know, this is a dumper... http://www.milleniumplant.com/uploaded_images/dumper-721225.JPG
    He filled the front bucket with petrol and it cost hundreds of euros worth in fuel. Another day he was asked to paint some windows-I'm sure you can work out what happened that time.


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    InkSlinger67
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    Shacklebolt wrote: »
    ...I'm sure you can work out what happened that time.

    Dunblane?


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    snubbleste
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    Shacklebolt wrote: »
    I know a man who was working on a building site and was told to fill the dumper with diesel. For anybody who doesn't know, this is a dumper...

    He was told to do something as part of his job and he did it? It's not the employees fault, it's the supervisors' fault.


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    Shacklebolt
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    He was told to do something as part of his job and he did it? It's not the employees fault, it's the supervisors' fault.

    If you were told to 'fill a car with petrol' would you attempt to fill it through the window? Because thats how retarded filling the bucket of the dumper with diesel was.


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    PogMoThoin
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    The man in the hardware shop up the street was often sent people to get a "long weight", to which the witty old sod would reply, "ok, wait there, I'll be back............."


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    11811
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    Working in bar a while back I got a young fella, who was the glass collector, to polish all the empty kegs for me.


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    byrner88
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    in the pub i used to work in we got a new lounge boy to wash the beer mats


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    Enright
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    Took me while to find it, but got a laugh from me

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2vD-MDslYc&feature=related

    Kevin (Bloody) Wlson The Apprentice

    :D


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    sunnyside
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    Shacklebolt wrote: »
    If you were told to 'fill a car with petrol' would you attempt to fill it through the window? Because thats how retarded filling the bucket of the dumper with diesel was.

    Some people need very clear and precise instructions. Surely someone would have seen him filling the dumper with petrol, I mean it would probably take a while.


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    SantryRed
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    sunnyside wrote: »
    Some people need very clear and precise instructions. Surely someone would have seen him filling the dumper with petrol, I mean it would probably take a while.

    It was obviously you. :)


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    mikemac
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    Working in a hotel and the bar manager was showing me how to change kegs.
    Then he got me to call Diagio to order a fallopian tube :o

    And one of the girls in reception ordered French letters


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    bronte
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    Brother was sent to the diy shop to get a fallopian tube when he was 16 :D


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    Whiskey Devil
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    mikemac wrote: »
    Working in a hotel and the bar manager was showing me how to change kegs.
    Then he got me to call Diagio to order a fallopian tube :o

    And one of the girls in reception ordered French letters

    That;s the first one that made me laugh. :P


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    watty
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    AV company:
    Storeboy sent to look for a "Long Weight" for a Milbank Mic Stand.

    BBC OB:
    I was asked to get a portable Earth. I just looked at the guy and laughed. Oddly though there is such a device (but not used by BBC OB trucks). http://www.radioworld.co.uk/~radio/catalog/mfj934-combined-artificial-earth-p-1843.html and http://remeeus.eu/ham-radio-english/miscellanous/artificial-ground-tuner.html

    OT, related:
    Building Site, the Clerk wanted to make sure window frames got another coat. He thought he would quietly put an "X" in a corner. The contractor had an apprentice go around after him searching out and painting just the "X"s.

    Shipyard:
    they would rivet or weld toolboxes of Apprentices to the bench.


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    fitz0
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    One lad got sent to the shop for a population tool.

    According to my da, when he was an apprentice welder they wer edoing a big job that involved a huge sheet of steel on the floor. They all wore boots with steel heels and toes and one of them ended up welded to the steel sheet on the floor.


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    El Weirdo
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    11811 wrote: »
    Working in bar a while back I got a young fella, who was the glass collector, to polish all the empty kegs for me.
    I used to do that and tell them it was so I didn't get my trousers dirty when I was lifting them.

    I sent a lad to the shop for some low fat lard once too...


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