What has made you Angry Today???????

[Hodge]

The fact I work for a contractor and the apprentices are generally for the client, I see too many apprentices that are in the later years, with no where near the skill they should have and no work ethic.

On the upside when I look for another job in my area, the competition for that job is pretty ordinary, increasing my chances of landing the job

Gotta hate that. I know I was an apprenty once as well, but I got kept as an employee after my time, definitely not for doing stuff like that.
We get a bunch come through annually. And all the time we see some 1st years, having a much better work ethic than the ones in later years.

[Ben-e-boy]

Gotta hate that. I know I was an apprenty once as well, but I got kept as an employee after my time, definitely not for doing stuff like that.
We get a bunch come through annually. And all the time we see some 1st years, having a much better work ethic than the ones in later years.

Its more worrying when the 1st and 2nd years have compareable skill.

[93patrol]

Unfortunately that's the problem with big business hiring apprentices they only do 1 job a day and sometimes they are told to make it last 8 hours

[TPC]

Todd in a rush = Commodore into the tree. Tree 1, Car 0....Time for a few beers me thinks Thank f!ck i wasn't in the Patrol And yes I am ok, it was only low speed in my own driveway, but enough speed 2 crack the bumper and dent the rear door

I reversed into a tree in October on Fraser Island and was driving the Patrol, only cracked the plastic bumper a little.
Was not going to mention it but now I see others have done it I don't feel so bad.
My excuse at the time was sun glare, couldn't see a bloody thing.

[pearcey]

Not angry just annoyed
43 plus and the AC said enough is enough and didn`t want to work,
Had a quick look and said I don`t play with 240v, 5 minutes later daughter drops in and her trucks AC is not working.
Not a problem as it had broken the belt, 5 minutes to get a new one but blxxdy hell the motors still hot, 10 minutes of inconvenient pain and shes gone. At least we have two AC`s in the house and canafford to wait for the main one to be repaired .
So at the moment I`m totally relaxed drinking home brew like it`s going out of fashion.

[Ben-e-boy]

Unfortunately that's the problem with big business hiring apprentices they only do 1 job a day and sometimes they are told to make it last 8 hours

Thats true. I was told to do exactly the same with some projects. But I was also given tight deadlines with others especially if they were breakdown related and put under over the top pressure to get it done

[93patrol]

Thats true. I was told to do exactly the same with some projects. But I was also given tight deadlines with others especially if they were breakdown related and put under over the top pressure to get it done

Another issue is they do the same jobs day in day out they don't actually understand why they are doing it in first place and why it broke. I see it with the I/E's at my work. They can replace it but they can't pull it apart fix a broken wire and put it back together

[mudski]

Unfortunately that's the problem with big business hiring apprentices they only do 1 job a day and sometimes they are told to make it last 8 hours

Well, do the job quickly and then go hide and snooze for the rest of the day Or do the lot and leave the last component until the end of the day. Hehe.
My mate used to work for Crown Casino in maintenance, he's a cabinet maker by trade, he'd get there at 6am, be told to do a job for the day, which would take him around 2 hours to do. So he'd go flat out and do the whole job but leave the last screw until just before knock off when the boss is due to walk in. As he had to stay at work, which was a big bloody place, he'd just go find an empty hotel room or something and have a lay down. He'd ask for more work to do but they had a quota and couldn't exceed it.

[93patrol]

When I was doing maintenance carpentry for a large refinery contractor I was told to slow down or I would lose my job because I was giving the other tradies a bad name. I had just step out of the housing industry where time was money took me a bit to learn that the money was time on the refinery site

[TPC]

Trying to get a taxi in Adelaide. What a joke took me 2 hours