Apprentice moments?

[BlackLS]

Originally Posted by HLC

the walk in?

im guessing a maccas kiddie?








i got a few, telling kids to get a box of steam from the freezer, buns from the bakery upstairs, the 12inch pocolation tool - wtf????, can you steam the vats.

was funny till some kid poured a jug of water in the oil and it splashed up everywhere and all over his shirt. then i got up him about not wearing correct PPE and it was hilarious

We had trainees water the indoor plants, which were plastic with concrete bases.

Othertimes we had them watering the drivethru gardens, then once they were out there we'd turn on the sprinker system.

[DoreSlamR]

Originally Posted by bathurst77

And if he gets sick you will kick him to death or shoot him?
I woulda had the police onto you.

geez have another read..notice the [/SARCASM] down the bottom.

I was having a go at the old lets play a trick on the apprentice that went too far stories we used to always hear.

I remember them being the in thing on A Current Affair

[EF wagon]

Whoa! There's too many here to read so if someone else has already told this one forgive me!

I did my apprenticeship in Oakleigh at a Ford dealership in the mid 1970's, the mechanics always use to send the 1st year apprentices over to a hardware store in Oakleight o get a can of compression...............

Or the best stuffup I ever actually saw was when working as a second year apprentice next to the head mechanic who use to train the 1st Year apprentices.........

I watched with some interest as the head mechanic told the the 1st year to drain the engine (of engine oil) and fillerup!!!!!!!!!!!

Well he grained the engine OK replaced the sump plug and then proceeded to fil the engine up and up and up and up until the oil was coming out the breather of the rocker cover!

I didn't say Boo...............

The head mecahnic came back and tried to start the car.........oil cam spurting out the breather and then lockedup! and me laughing my head off!!!!!!!

[Bossxr8]

Just tell them to get you a nine inch reproduction tool.

[Booka]

Im a smart a$$ and have a pair of "left handed" screw drivers in my tool box (have LHD engraved on the blade), and when im asked for them i give them to whom ever asked.

[Nikked]

lol, i never have fallen for a apprentice trick. But one of my mates was told to ask the boss for a long weight...

[HLC]

Originally Posted by BlackLS

We had trainees water the indoor plants, which were plastic with concrete bases.

Othertimes we had them watering the drivethru gardens, then once they were out there we'd turn on the sprinker system.

HAHA yeah ive had kids do the indoor plastic plants too! never DT with sprinklers but.

cause im at eastern creek on the m4, we tell them to do a lot check in the truck bay, and you dont see them for like 2 hours.

[Jason[98.EL]]

when i was a 1st yr apprentice the boss sent me to the local paint shop for rainbow paint

what he didn't realize the owner ( paint shop )was a really good family friend and he had already warned me on that one being they did to all apprentices

so when i showed up in my 3rd week he had the best comeback for them he mixed up a paint that was 250 ish a liter (20ltr) drum so they ended up with a nice bill for the paint

from what i saw they never did it again

as for the left hand shifting spanner i have one at my current workplace so they do exist

jason

[FrogInASock]

On RAN Survey ships (http://www.navy.gov.au/fleet/survey.html I was on LEEUWIN Class) there is a survey device which measures the temperature and salinity of the water so the Hydrogaphers can correctly calibrate the sonar. This thing, which I cannot remember the name of, is connected to the ships' computers by two fine wires which attatch to the "gun" which launches the thing. Point over the side, pull the triger, and the thing springs away trailing it's wires and sending data as it sinks.

I was priveliged to see this first hand. A female Hydrographer was on her first sea posting and was being instructed by the Senior Assistant Surveyor (highest level specialist Hydrographic Officer on the ship) on the use of this thing (bloody wish I could remember the name!). Most of the rest of the Hydrographic sailors on board were gathered around. Female sailor was instructed in the proper safety precautions (Looks like a gun, must be one, eh?), put on anti flash and gloves, and prepared to fire this, apparently, highly dangerous piece of kit.

She pulls the trigger... and nothing happens

So the Senior Assistant Surveyor yells at the top of his voice "MISFIRE!!!"

This poor girl drops the, harmless, gun with it's, equally harmless, payload, and instantly falls into the foetal position expecting the side of the ship to disappear in some collossal explosion! She was less than pleased when the CPO Hydrographer, after recovering from his fits of laughter, calmly removes the thing from the gun and tosses it overboard!

[BlackLS]

Originally Posted by HLC

HAHA yeah ive had kids do the indoor plastic plants too! never DT with sprinklers but.

cause im at eastern creek on the m4, we tell them to do a lot check in the truck bay, and you dont see them for like 2 hours.

Hehe, when I was traning for setup, I was following the proceedures, it said pick up rubbish around the block. This meant around the Maccas owned carpark, but I took this as around the street block. I ended up covering half the suburb dragging the Maccas wheelie bin around behind me.

[tapeworm]

Originally Posted by BlackLS

Hehe, when I was traning for setup, I was following the proceedures, it said pick up rubbish around the block. This meant around the Maccas owned carpark, but I took this as around the street block. I ended up covering half the suburb dragging the Maccas wheelie bin around behind me.

Bwahahaha!!

[Airmon]

Originally Posted by Fev

ahaha that kid got owned..

when you walk into a tafe and you see the 16yr old dropouts screwin around doin construction or mechanics (and stealing Autosounds SOUND EQUIPMENT YOU CHEAP FCKS!) you just know in a few years they will get one hell of a big steel caped boot in their ***

I dunno what you mean there, but most "16yo dropouts" would have started their apprenticeships, and the big steel cap boot will be in your in a few years when you have to bend over for their overly expensive and most likely for you dodgy trade jobs.

[MarkAW]

Used to hang the first years from the O/head gantry. Push the hook through the back of the overalls and hoist them up (overalls were better made in the 70's). They cant use their arms to release them selve cause you bring your arms up, the overalls go up the body and cut off "circulation" in the groin area. :the_finge So they have to hang there with their arms by their sides - funny as

Also used to connect spark plug tester to various tools, people etc

[BJ]

I have never understood the need for this sort of thing. All the years I had my own workshop and all the Apprentice's I had I would never condone this sort of thing. I find it neither funny or needed.

[Fev]

Originally Posted by Airmon

I dunno what you mean there, but most "16yo dropouts" would have started their apprenticeships, and the big steel cap boot will be in your in a few years when you have to bend over for their overly expensive and most likely for you dodgy trade jobs.

even while they are doin their apprenticeships they are at Tafe... and they stole our Amp, 2 speakers, stabbed holes in another speaker, stole 1 tweeter and broke the other and they stole our capacitor aswell which we had been installing for a few weeks(first time we were doing this - 1 day a week).. luckily the DVD headunit we were using wasnt in the car.. also during the time i accidentally grabbed hole of a inch this soldering iron i had placed in a clamp.. that one hurt, smelt like steak for hours

[HLC]

Originally Posted by BlackLS

Hehe, when I was traning for setup, I was following the proceedures, it said pick up rubbish around the block. This meant around the Maccas owned carpark, but I took this as around the street block. I ended up covering half the suburb dragging the Maccas wheelie bin around behind me.

[TUF_302]

Im a 4th year apprentice painter, and of course was sent to get striped paint a few times, never went tho, had heard all of the stories before i started so i knew what i was up for lol!

[Falcon4L]

I'm an apprentice sparky, I've never had a trick played on me but we do play tricks on the plumbers. My favourite one is to get a length of cable hook it around one of their spark plugs and run it to under their seat so when they crank the engine they get a nice high voltage zap to their thigh.

[krt10]

i like the old metric shifter one. gets em every time

[[Tonko]]

Originally Posted by MarkAW

Used to hang the first years from the O/head gantry. Push the hook through the back of the overalls and hoist them up (overalls were better made in the 70's). They cant use their arms to release them selve cause you bring your arms up, the overalls go up the body and cut off "circulation" in the groin area. :the_finge So they have to hang there with their arms by their sides - funny as

Also used to connect spark plug tester to various tools, people etc

Haha, We say to the new kids "i bet you cant do 3 chinups" then take them to the meat room to prove us wrong.
The end result is grease all over them, most try to wipe it off on their shirts..
Not real bad but good for a cheap laugh...

[rodderz]

Originally Posted by Falcon4L

I'm an apprentice sparky, I've never had a trick played on me but we do play tricks on the plumbers. My favourite one is to get a length of cable hook it around one of their spark plugs and run it to under their seat so when they crank the engine they get a nice high voltage zap to their thigh.

lol!! I bet the plumbers wonder why a handful of sparkies are hiding behind the corner of the house giggling away while they get into the car to head off?

[schnoods]

We have a couple of boilermaker apprentices at our work.

Best trick is to get a bit of black insulation tape on the inside of their welding mask. They go to strike an arc and think they are blind.

black dye on their welding mask cushion so they have a ring around their head, on the ear muffs. tacked tool boxes to benches and i even had the time to cable tie every tool in a apprentices tool box together (only because he was real lippy).

Best thing is the nicknames though, One we call Muff man, Muff meister, muffy, etc because he wears the most ridiculous pair of ear muffs.

The other one is a giant (6 ft 6") for a 15 year olds and is always leaning against things, So we named him Pisa ( the leaning tower...)


All good fun though and no harm done, spend more time at work than at home so why not make it fun. :

[NC1183]

One of the guys i work with told me that they hooked up the welder to the apprenticies tool box then shock the box welding the tools to the interior of the box.

Someone from here had a good one in the Workshop Mishaps thread earlier in the year or late last year about a long weight, can't remember who though but it was a good story. Aparently the kids supervisor told him to get a long weight and the kid came back with a bit of I beam and dropped it on his supers foot.

i told a 1st year to take out spark plugs out of a diesel.

told one 1st year of the others to get me a box of sparks

told a work experience kid to get me a left hand turning screwdriver

also gift rapped a entire tool chest with seat covers and also turned off some hosts to slow down some of the rushing mechanics - works bloody well too

[v8boss]

This ones more along the lines of "what stupid things has your apprentice done". I sent mine out to drop off a customer at work in the customers car. My customer worked as a nurse at a hospital. When my apprentice was pulling out of the hospital driveway, he looked left, looked right, looked left again and floored it. What he hadnt seen was the person going past the frt of the car in an electric wheelchair. As the guy said later,"its a good thing Im a full paraplegic, didnt hurt a bit!"

[jlef5]

OOOO s h it that would be bad, atleast he had a sense of humor about it.

[NOS 247]

one of our apprentices ****ed off the service man, so he drilled a little hole in the side of his tool box.. fitted a grease nipple.. and proceded to unleash a 60L drum of grease with the numatic grease gun into his box... was very funny.

[Jorgo85]

When my brother was an apprentice boiler maker, he got one of the old welders back by sticking a sparkler in his hand piece. The old tradie sat there with an astonished look on his face as it sparkled away.

Some of the ones I have seen is fire crackers and oxy/acetylene bombs (really loud, I blew a coke can to bits with it) underneath where the apprentices are oxy cutting

[jlef5]

I'm a third year electrical apprentice at a power station i haven't had much done agaisnt me. But best ones i have seen and heard about are.
One apprentice was big pranster when he went to tafe his tool box got siliconed to the floor with heat proof silicon, took about 3 weeks to get off. Same apprentice on an overhaul had one pair of overalls covered in grease, put them on before realising. Had a shower put the second pair on and they had bearing blue in the pockets and inner thigh. Had another shower after taking them off and his last pair was throwing over the shower into him and got soaked.

Annother apprentice 1st year who was a know it all and told tradies how to do jobs. When he had a day of leave, his tool box was covered in tac 2, its like a spray on grease/oil mixture. This apprentice also had his entire tool bag filled with expanda foam.

Best cockup ive seen in a 22year old matureage apprentice try to change a tyre on a car by lefting it up at the tow ball with a crane and then proceding to get under the buggy while it was in the air.

Best apprentice come back was from a fitter apprentice got asked for a can of tiger paint. Went to the store got a can of black spray paint, can of yellow spray paint, and tiger taped them together, similar to one of the over apprentice comebacks.

[Turbot]

Place i worked at years ago had a work experience kid come in, it was at a medium volume bakery with a large traveling oven which was about the size of 3 single car garages end to end and these swinging trays would travel along the top then along do a u turn and come back along the bottom. Well occasionally cake tins etc would fall off inside the oven anyways at the beggining of a shift, oven still cold they told the work exp kid he had to ride one of the trays round the inside of the oven with a torch and pick up the fallen tins. LoL. Well he did good along the top section wasnt freaking even though tis only about 1-1/2 foot high and pitch dark, however whilst he was half way back along the bottom they turned on the fan turbines, the oven had 4 tirbines and 4 huge flame thowers but of course they only turned on the fans but they sound like jet engines cranking up. Ah man lets just say he couldnt get outta there and prolly still heres turbines in his nightmares , poor kid.
P.S having done his first week in the bakery he then did a 2nd week in a auto shop and we later heard at the end of that week a security guard let him down from a block and tackle bout 4hr after closing time covered in blue dye.