Tricks played on apprentices

[eggsarascal]

Plasterer says to the boy, "I bet you can't lift that bag of plaster over your head", the boy lifts it over his head and the plasters mate nips in from behind and slashes the bag with a Stanley knife, one boy covered in plaster.

 

[SamanthaSunny]

18 minutes ago, Stubby said:

There was the usual , sending the apprentice to the stores for the " long weight " the box of  " quarter BSF holes " and a  " box of sky hooks " 

Sky hooks lol 😂 

[Stubby]

How do you do this , Oh you need to ask old caney ,  he knows . Where is he . Oh , over the road in the other building . Ok . ( comes back ) could not find him , Who is he . " Oh , he is the one with the bamboo prick " 👍

[SamanthaSunny]

16 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Seen some classics on sites over the years, The lads had told the boy that the pull start was knackered on the disc cutter and the only way was to bump start it. The boy was running with the disc on the ground trying to get it to start.

Was it you eggs 😂

[Gray git]

How stupid are some people lol [emoji23] I love it [emoji1419] I got someone last Thursday when I asked him to pass me the left handed screwdriver [emoji16] bless him he looked for ten minutes before he realised [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16][emoji16]

Had a lad going for a age sending him back every time to get the metric adjustable spanner not the imperial one.

[roys]

We had a cherry picker at a big industrial site, if we were on a job and needed the cherry picker we would send the apprentice for it, but he was told you had to pay Harry 50p (it was the 80’s) every time he borrowed it, as he was in charge of it and that is what he charged if you wanted it. For 3 or 4 years the lad paid Harry for a loan of cherry picker usually once or twice a week.

At the end of his time when we all went to the club to celebrate he was given a big pot of money that he had “donated” to Harry.

[Paddy1000111]

Back in aviation there was a girl who was about 25 working behind the tool counter. We used to get a new set of 18yo apprentices each year and would regularly send them for tools like a "Donkeys Dick" a "Three way" a "Quickie" a "Blowie" etc... Funny thing was she knew the exact tool as that was what we nicknamed them but the apprentices thought they were getting set up and looked red faced and nervous before they were even served 😂 The blowie was the best because she would look them dead in the eye and say "A long one or a short one" 🤣

[SamanthaSunny]

Lol laughed way too hard at this 😂

[SamanthaSunny]

24 minutes ago, roys said:

We had a cherry picker at a big industrial site, if we were on a job and needed the cherry picker we would send the apprentice for it, but he was told you had to pay Harry 50p (it was the 80’s) every time he borrowed it, as he was in charge of it and that is what he charged if you wanted it. For 3 or 4 years the lad paid Harry for a loan of cherry picker usually once or twice a week.

At the end of his time when we all went to the club to celebrate he was given a big pot of money that he had “donated” to Harry.

That’s cute ☺️ 

[Kent Arboreal]

A mate of mine is a jeweller in Hatton Garden. One day they set a boiled sweet into a gold ring and told the work experience lad to put the ring in the polishing machine but to be extra careful because it was a £30k emerald. Polishing machine basically sloshes it about in boiling water for half hour so when he came back there was no “emerald” just a gold ring. They let him stew all week before they told him.