View Full Version : Work Experence... ******* youths
Today we have two young 15 year old boys who are with my workshops for a week of work experance.
rant mode on...
1. they turn up wearing designer gear.
2. they mone about having to put on overall / coveralls, to stop them getting dirty.](*,)
3. they didn't have boots so had to get them some from the stores, but who had to sign for them... yes me.:smt103
4. they cannot work alone for the odvious reasons so they take two of my production bods away. So now my production is 1 bod...:-dd
5. One of them doesn't even want to join the Army or be a mechanic...FFS:smt104
5. Remember the're 15.... at Naafi break one says can we go for a fag. No I say your only 15, if you get cought then I'll get the bollocking from my peers, later when the teachers turn up to pick them up I ask if there allowed to smoke at school to which they reply....YES, as they'll just **** off to the bogs for 30 mins for a fag anyway if you don't let them.
What has this bloody countrys youth and schooling come too?
or maybe i'll just say :-#
rant mode off... relax and breath.
You need Neio up there:D Can he not get a transfer PDQ;)
What sort of stuff are you showing them, mech stuff, blimy that is usualy what all guys were instrested in and would have loved to have people show them.
You need Neio up there:D Can he not get a transfer PDQ;)
Gladly go up there to sort the little tinkers out , but that would mean working with the REME :confused::smt119;)
Yeah TBH i thought they would have liked it working on tanks etc?
yorkie_chris
05-11-07, 10:48 PM
Tossers. I've allus been mad for that sort of thing, really enjoyed my work experience, wasn't quite as interesting as military vee-hicles (building roadsweepers :p) but was still interesting.
(Though I was allowed to smoke there!)
The fact that they were wearing designer gear shows them to be either chavs or poofters, either way not somebody who I'd expect to be a good spanner monkey lol
I would have loved to have done that. Really I would.
I would have loved to have done that. Really I would.
Just ask Ritchie!! :rolleyes: give us a job mister!
Gladly go up there to sort the little tinkers out , but that would mean working with the REME... There like GOD's they are...\\:D/
Yes your right...:winner:
ps. at an Engeener Unit, Based on an RAF base... No tanks. :-(
Yes your right the signals are such a good bunch of lads , real pros far better than the REME, i which i had joined your lot .
Awwww thanks mate ;)
gettin2dizzy
06-11-07, 07:56 AM
Today we have two young 15 year old boys who are with my workshops for a week of work experance.
rant mode on...
1. they turn up wearing designer gear.
2. they mone about having to put on overall / coveralls, to stop them getting dirty.](*,)
3. they didn't have boots so had to get them some from the stores, but who had to sign for them... yes me.:smt103
4. they cannot work alone for the odvious reasons so they take two of my production bods away. So now my production is 1 bod...:-dd
5. One of them doesn't even want to join the Army or be a mechanic...FFS:smt104
5. Remember the're 15.... at Naafi break one says can we go for a fag. No I say your only 15, if you get cought then I'll get the bollocking from my peers, later when the teachers turn up to pick them up I ask if there allowed to smoke at school to which they reply....YES, as they'll just **** off to the bogs for 30 mins for a fag anyway if you don't let them.
What has this bloody countrys youth and schooling come too?
or maybe i'll just say :-#
rant mode off... relax and breath.
I wondered that myself ;)
We are always under pressure to take work experience in, its a nightmare.
In 10 years of doing it we have only ever had two decent ones.
As you say they turn up with a bad attitude and looking like they couldn't be bothered to make the effort, then grunt every time you ask a question, they are never interested in what you show them the list goes on.
We caught one of them surfing porn when he should've been building a PC and on another occasion two of them went to lunch on the Monday and never returned.
I loved my work experience and it actually taught me a little bit, kids these days just don't give a t***.
kids these days just don't give a t***.
God I sound old, I'm only 32. Wait that is old!
I wondered that myself ;)
Since Richie's nearly 40, that's hardly relevant unless you're wondering what this country's schooling WAS like 25 years ago. Not actually the same thing...;)
Dump the lazy, ungrateful 'I didn't ASK to be born' smegs and train ME! :thumbsup:
You'll just need to send an 'official' HM Forces letter to my employers telling them they have to give me extra paid time off for the duration... probably signed by the queen... :lol:
....Ah go on! :D
Warthog
06-11-07, 09:58 AM
I would have jumped at the opportunity to do that, its wasted on those little scrotes.
the_runt69
06-11-07, 10:06 AM
Whats work experience, left school at 16 and went straight to work, 31 years later im still there, although im one of the bosses now.
Alpinestarhero
06-11-07, 10:08 AM
Blimey, can I take their place if you;re showing them all kinds of cool mechanical stuff?
I can't get enough of it
Matt
gettin2dizzy
06-11-07, 10:30 AM
I'd have loved it too. If they're not interested don't bother trying; get them to make coffee all day ;)
If they are useless send them to stores for a "long stand":smt082...
**gets coat..
Biker Biggles
06-11-07, 12:56 PM
Didnt have work experience in the 1970s
Having said that there were real jobs to go and do so we got the experience that way.
Its a strange world.
Pedrosa
06-11-07, 04:02 PM
Didnt have work experience in the 1970s
Having said that there were real jobs to go and do so we got the experience that way.
Its a strange world.
Work experience? Work experience? When I was first able to walk unattended it was down the pit for me.12 hour shifts with no time off at weekends. This was a blessing after my first work experience of working with a chimney sweep who would have me a clambering up many a stack. And if I ever got a tadge stuck the lousy old git would light a fire underneath me.:(
Biker Biggles
06-11-07, 05:13 PM
Luxury.
We ad it tuff.Ad to dig pit before we got coal out and regualrly got killed if the boss was in.8 day working week and we ad to pay for privelage of working there.No one lived more than five minutes.
Tell that to todays youngsters
And they wont believe you.:confused:
they didnt have work experience when i was at school. you just left school and got a job as YPS or something. my first job as office junior in solicitors office I got £23 a week. my friend worked in micro electronics factory and got £100 a week. I then got a full time job at £27 a week woohoo. still managed to get a mortgage at 19.
my daughter is doing work experience in feb and the choices are crap. she wants to do something along the lines of interior design but will end up in a shop as you are more of less guaranteed a saturday job when you are 16.
we have loads apply to work at the school because they finish at 3. none are interested in teaching or working with kids (saying that neither am I)
Pedrosa
06-11-07, 06:30 PM
Luxury.
We ad it tuff.Ad to dig pit before we got coal out and regualrly got killed if the boss was in.8 day working week and we ad to pay for privelage of working there.No one lived more than five minutes.
Tell that to todays youngsters
Nah see ere lad. In my day we had t'dig pit entrance with our teeth and lick th'coal dust away with our tungs. You obviously started after al of them there reforms took place. Sofite period it was for you.
And they wont believe you.:confused:
Nah see here lad,when I was colierin we had to cut out pit entrance with our own teeth I tell yer. And dust had fer be washed away by using our own tongues. You had it easy you did,I tell yer. You obviously started after them there namby pamby reforms took place.
Biker Biggles
06-11-07, 07:01 PM
Aye times was ard.
But then I joined SV.ORG and I been shaggin the bosses wife ever since.
:rave:
Moffatt666
06-11-07, 09:41 PM
Ah, work experience. Worked in a car garage with my dad's mate, the owner, because I took a vague interest in car mechanics. I then spent a year chasing this as a career, got a job and decided I hated it. I now work an apprentice telephone engineer and I love it.
Wideboy
06-11-07, 09:42 PM
you can tell them to not come back can't you?, when i started my work experience (14) i had to make my own way there and they told me if i was late or abusive it would all be going in a report and could result in me getting the shuv, even though it was boring, it was a lot more interesting than school, best 2 weeks of my school life:p, then when i left school they offered me a job, stayed 4 months then i left, that payed for my 1st bike and set the ball rolling :riding:
Today was a little better, The asistant teacher had to stay all day so she donned a pair of covies and boots and got stuck in, oil & fuel change on a Land Rover, Head lamp change on a Leyland Daf truck, asisting in fitting a new Fuel injection pump on a 4 ton Leyland DAF and watching how to use the swan neck and spill time the pump to the engine.
She even had a laugh and didn't mind greasing up the prop shaft nipples, great fun wizzing under the truck on a crawler board.
the other two lads also got stuck in today. They were quite well behaved, they only went for a fag brake when my guys did, and were quite polite today...
She (the teacher) must have said something to put the fear of GOD into them on the way in today....:smt074
TheDangerousQuietOne
07-11-07, 01:13 AM
Or a "sky hook" ;P
We had some work experience kids at the garden centre I worked at, a couple were ok but the other two were pretty much useless, they screwed everything up so a normal member of staff had to spend just as long again fixing it. I made one lad cry by constantly taking the **** outta him and sending him to the grumpiest member of staff asking for "dark lights" and "left hand scewdrivers" hahahahahaha!
Pedrosa
07-11-07, 11:56 AM
Aye times was ard.
But then I joined SV.ORG and I been shaggin the bosses wife ever since.
:rave:
'Appen yer referring to a little bit of "Fanny by gaslight" me thinks mucka?;)
colinsv25
07-11-07, 12:40 PM
i went double glazing window fitting for my work experience,10 years ago now god i feel old and im only 25
Or a "sky hook" ;P
We had some work experience kids at the garden centre I worked at, a couple were ok but the other two were pretty much useless, they screwed everything up so a normal member of staff had to spend just as long again fixing it. I made one lad cry by constantly taking the **** outta him and sending him to the grumpiest member of staff asking for "dark lights" and "left hand scewdrivers" hahahahahaha!
And what an example you set!
I work in a school, and my daughter will be doing work experience this year, yes I agree that kids do need a kick, but if my daughter came back from W.E. upset then I'd have something to say about the company. We do tend to get a lot of complimentary comments back on our kids here.
And they are not all bad.
But, trying to sort out W.E. is a nightmare, her and I have to arrange it, not the school. I hope we get someone sympathic.
Lou x
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