tamthebam Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 A glass hammer and a left handed screwdriver are popular items for apprentices to go and get too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 16 hours ago, alta-pete said: Away and send him on an errand to Screwfix for a pair of fallopian tubes. I informed him he will have to prepare for his manager (my mate from Dundee) being sat down and asked questions of and the scene being replayed. He said I don't get what he means. I said, I know. I don't. Can you explain. "Well, I like onions. I wouldn't eat a single onion ring though". I've genuinely no idea if it's an act or not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 55 minutes ago, Derry Alli said: I informed him he will have to prepare for his manager (my mate from Dundee) being sat down and asked questions of and the scene being replayed. He said I don't get what he means. I said, I know. I don't. Can you explain. "Well, I like onions. I wouldn't eat a single onion ring though". I've genuinely no idea if it's an act or not. Its an act. Dazzle camoflage. You've got no idea what to do with any of this, and he's probably not doing any work whilst you attempt to unpack it all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greendot Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Not quite a work colleague but someone a client hired as an apprentice roofer recently. The guy had a few choice incidents during his short time as a apprentice. His highlights included while being asked to hold the ladder while the qualified roofer worked on a roof the customer phoned his boss to report that instead of holding the ladder he was lying on the grass on his phone. He also phoned his mum to pick him up over the summer cos it was too hot to work and phoned in the next day saying it was supposed to be hot again so he wouldn't be in! His crowning glory was asking his boss how long his 3 month trial was and what sort of pay rise he would get after that time had passed. Needless to say he didn't get kept on! Our client also worded an advert for a new apprentice to the effect that if you can't keep off your phone don't bother applying. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 Not so much work colleagues, but people doing work for you. Turn the feck up when you said you would. If you get held up, let the people paying you know. Thank you 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 2 hours ago, greendot said: Our client also worded an advert for a new apprentice to the effect that if you can't keep off your phone don't bother applying. My daughter is working with a guy who's on a three month trial and who is permanently on his phone claiming he's too busy to do what he's told to do. He won't last. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 5 minutes ago, Hampden Diehard said: My daughter is working with a guy who's on a three month trial and who is permanently on his phone claiming he's too busy to do what he's told to do. He won't last. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 I got sent to the storeroom as an apprentice to ask for an inebriated screw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 18 minutes ago, Lofarl said: I got sent to the storeroom as an apprentice to ask for an inebriated screw. We've all had one of them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 We'd a new KP waiting outside the managers office for an hour, where he'd been sent to ask for a long stand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesP_81 Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 The place I done my school work experience at had an apprentice , daft as a brush , who would fall for everything, sent for a big weight , tartan paint , new bubble for a spirit level the lot . When I was there the foreman sent him for a tin of scotch mist to take the piss out of him in front of the school kid. The look on his face when the boy came back happily swinging a bucket with white steam billowing out and a big grin on his face was priceless. The stores guys had taken pity on him and poured some liquid nitrogen into a bucket for him. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Lofarl said: I got sent to the storeroom as an apprentice to ask for an inebriated screw. 1 hour ago, hk blues said: We've all had one of them. If you're very lucky the right person will take you there and give you one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 On 11/12/2023 at 16:00, scottsdad said: Two clangers for me today. In one, going through accreditation, a recommendation was made about my course. I disagreed with this a couple of months ago and replied to our internal guy who is collating all this saying something along the lines that this is nonsense and they (the accreditors) don't have any clue what they're talking about. The exact working of my email ended up in the official response that went to them today. I didn't see it until after it had been sent in. It's all kicking off. Someone, somewhere, has fucked up royally. The Prof has spotted that the info sent in about his course is all incorrect. The handbook sent in isn't the one he wrote. In addition, under "course textbook" is listed "None" when in fact the whole course is based on a book he wrote. He's raging. Utterly raging that such a monumental f**k-up happened. He wants to know who did this. So I checked my course and a similar thing happened. Someone made a "handbook" that is 2 pages long, full of spelling mistakes. My actual handbook is 17 pages long. Of my 8 Learning Objectives, only 3 are listed. Honestly, we're overrun by fuckwits. We've requested that the submission be withdrawn immediately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 ^^^^ Of course, no-one will be taken to task over these incompetent fvckups. Heads should roll. From all of the stuff you've posted over the years, your institution / dept. appears to be run by irresponsible fools. Genuinely surprised that neither you nor His Profness can't identify the individual(s) involved and get something done about this shambles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: ^^^^ Of course, no-one will be taken to task over these incompetent fvckups. Heads should roll. From all of the stuff you've posted over the years, your institution / dept. appears to be run by irresponsible fools. Genuinely surprised that neither you nor His Profness can't identify the individual(s) involved and get something done about this shambles. The Prof has contacted the Principal now. He is raging. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 15 minutes ago, scottsdad said: The Prof has contacted the Principal now. He is raging. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 What a redemption arc the Profs had 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peil Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 2 hours ago, scottsdad said: It's all kicking off. Someone, somewhere, has fucked up royally. The Prof has spotted that the info sent in about his course is all incorrect. The handbook sent in isn't the one he wrote. In addition, under "course textbook" is listed "None" when in fact the whole course is based on a book he wrote. He's raging. Utterly raging that such a monumental f**k-up happened. He wants to know who did this. So I checked my course and a similar thing happened. Someone made a "handbook" that is 2 pages long, full of spelling mistakes. My actual handbook is 17 pages long. Of my 8 Learning Objectives, only 3 are listed. Honestly, we're overrun by fuckwits. We've requested that the submission be withdrawn immediately. That goes beyond incompetence, surely? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 5 hours ago, scottsdad said: It's all kicking off. Someone, somewhere, has fucked up royally. The Prof has spotted that the info sent in about his course is all incorrect. The handbook sent in isn't the one he wrote. In addition, under "course textbook" is listed "None" when in fact the whole course is based on a book he wrote. He's raging. Utterly raging that such a monumental f**k-up happened. He wants to know who did this. So I checked my course and a similar thing happened. Someone made a "handbook" that is 2 pages long, full of spelling mistakes. My actual handbook is 17 pages long. Of my 8 Learning Objectives, only 3 are listed. Honestly, we're overrun by fuckwits. We've requested that the submission be withdrawn immediately. Admin rule the world, and if it isn’t admin it’ll be some arse-licking wee c**t trying to climb the ladder. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted December 13, 2023 Share Posted December 13, 2023 (edited) 18 hours ago, scottsdad said: It's all kicking off. Someone, somewhere, has fucked up royally. The Prof has spotted that the info sent in about his course is all incorrect. The handbook sent in isn't the one he wrote. In addition, under "course textbook" is listed "None" when in fact the whole course is based on a book he wrote. He's raging. Utterly raging that such a monumental f**k-up happened. He wants to know who did this. So I checked my course and a similar thing happened. Someone made a "handbook" that is 2 pages long, full of spelling mistakes. My actual handbook is 17 pages long. Of my 8 Learning Objectives, only 3 are listed. Honestly, we're overrun by fuckwits. We've requested that the submission be withdrawn immediately. Apropos of nothing: A while back, my team had to submit CVs for a project which had to be in the work’s own template/style (which was a mess, but that’s a by-the-by). They had a strict deadline and when that one guy didn’t do his, I wrote one for him and it got submitted along with the others. He was fucking raging but a deadline is a deadline. As I said, apropos of nothing as I’m sure your stuff was all in on time. Edited December 14, 2023 by mathematics 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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