Apprentice moments?

[Ringo]

Ahhhh someone mentioned my story!


Resident Joker of the workshop, who loves to play pranks on all the newies, calls over the work experience kid one busy Friday afternoon and sends him down the road to the muffler shop for a "long wait".

A soon as the kid has walked out the door the foreman comes over looking for him to be an extra pair of hands on a job he was doing.

Joker thinks its funny and tells the un-amused foreman that he just sent him down the road for a long wait….Foreman walks off muttering to himself about idiots wasting time.

We hear a scraping sound a little later and work experience kid appears dragging a 4 metre beam of BHP's finest H beam steel behind him. It was huge and heavy. He drops it at the back of the jokers hoist, says "here's your long wait" being totally oblivious to the joke and runs off to answer the shouting foreman.

Needless to say we all folded over laughing

We also then laughed again when unamused foreman came back over with a grin and told Joker he had to take the long wait back…..after work.

[Agent86]

My step-father is a prankster too.

The new apprentice was being cheeky, so he sickaflexed his toolbox to the bench.
His car was shrinkwrapped.
This kid isnt a very bright spark tho.
He welded an old pair of roof racks to his car ,got weld in the windscreen and now the windscreen is rusting.
He stole rags and wrapped them around his wiper blades, so the guys sealed some up in a bag and wrope spare wipers on it and left them on the car.
Not gettign the joke he thanked them..

[Rangas GTP]

Worked for a boiler manufacturer. Sitting on top of large autoclaves we would ask an apprentice to power up a high frequency DC welder, its on a trolley and shaped like a torpedo. No apprentice could figure out how to start it so we told them it had to be push started. We would crack up watching them.

[wizardy]

I shared a workshop with a gentleman that sent his apprentice looking for an eight inch copulating tool.

[AUXRVIII]

Some time ago an apprentice was heating an exhaust on a Laser for reasons unknown and the flame from the oxy was also heating the fuel tank. The boss saw what was happening so he quietly walked up behind him with a can of carby clean and proceeded to spray the carby clean into the oxy flame, no need to explain what happened next. Some time later the apprentice walks into the boss's office with zero emotion on his face and says "Do that again, I'll puch your lights out". As this was close to christmas the boss gave him a pair of boxing gloves at the christmas party chris cringle.

[LUXO_8]

Originally Posted by wizardy

I shared a workshop with a gentleman that sent his apprentice looking for an eight inch copulating tool.

bwahahaha

[paule11]

Noticed some damage on the front bumper of a Falcon at work couldnt work out how the paint got scraped off .
Got the apprentices together and asked them one owned up that they were down at the wharf and they accidently drove over this mound and went flying through the air and landed on the front bumper. I was a bit sceptical that it was an accident.
I told them how many security cameras are at wharves and how they probably had been filmed in a company car.
Then one giggles and says should we tell him about the donuts.
These idiots had been playing dukes of hazzad for some time in company cars lucky they didnt get reported or filmed in high security areas.

[XCSEDAN]

i wasn't an apprentice but this is still funny...
i was doing work experience at AutoBarn, and the bastards played jokes non stop (this was about 4 years ago now maybe more), worked there for one week, they tried to pull at least 5 pranks a day, in the end i just did them because the work was boring anyways here is a few good ones.

Got told to put on a sprayers suit and degrease an aerosole can of degreaser (that was good, i spent one hour doing nothing)
got done with the striped paint one too (sept they proved that there was striped paint by painting a hose green and black)
pulled a tonne of others that i forgot, oh yeah one was stealing the internals of a car battery then framing it on me!! (that one i didn't find funny)

BUT!!! to this day this still makes me cry nearly EVERY time i talk about it (in laughter)

the boss sent me down the road with a card to get a rear spoiler from a place called spoilers... so on i walk thinking how in hell am i going to walk back carrying a rear spoiler????????? anyways, i get to spoilers and hand them the card, the lady goes do you want it on card or do you have cash or a cheque??? i smartly said "boss says put it on the tab for autobarn"
im then taken into a room (this is when i got suss), there was 6 girls standing there in some of the sexiest underwear i have seen, i got asked to take my pick, i instantly chose the hottest one with the biggest rack best body etc... then she (the lady escorting me who i assume is the owner/manager) walked up to the girl and showed her the card (THIS!!! is when it actually clicked that i was in a brothel), and the girl groned and stared at me with a "have mersy" look on her face...
the older lady escorting me, came back to me, and i asked if i could see the card, she showed it to me and it read "REAR MOUNT SPOILER SPECIAL, NO GREASE"
...NO WONDER THIS GIRL GRONED!!!!
i then proceeded to explain that this was yet another prank they were pulling.
i went bright red in the face, had my pockets shoved full of condoms by the call girls who were giggling their heads off, and got kisses all over me (which i really didnt want any of) and i was told it happend all the time, but there actually was a tab for where i was working so they thought i was serious....
needless to say i went back to autobarn and threw a radiator hose at my bosses head then laughed my *** off for the rest of the day thinking about it.

what a pleasent day that was for a 14/5 year old!!! :

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by XCSEDAN

i wasn't an apprentice but this is still funny...
i was doing work experience at AutoBarn, and the bastards played jokes non stop (this was about 4 years ago now maybe more), worked there for one week, they tried to pull at least 5 pranks a day, in the end i just did them because the work was boring anyways here is a few good ones.

Got told to put on a sprayers suit and degrease an aerosole can of degreaser (that was good, i spent one hour doing nothing)
got done with the striped paint one too (sept they proved that there was striped paint by painting a hose green and black)
pulled a tonne of others that i forgot, oh yeah one was stealing the internals of a car battery then framing it on me!! (that one i didn't find funny)

BUT!!! to this day this still makes me cry nearly EVERY time i talk about it (in laughter)

the boss sent me down the road with a card to get a rear spoiler from a place called spoilers... so on i walk thinking how in hell am i going to walk back carrying a rear spoiler????????? anyways, i get to spoilers and hand them the card, the lady goes do you want it on card or do you have cash or a cheque??? i smartly said "boss says put it on the tab for autobarn"
im then taken into a room (this is when i got suss), there was 6 girls standing there in some of the sexiest underwear i have seen, i got asked to take my pick, i instantly chose the hottest one with the biggest rack best body etc... then she (the lady escorting me who i assume is the owner/manager) walked up to the girl and showed her the card (THIS!!! is when it actually clicked that i was in a brothel), and the girl groned and stared at me with a "have mersy" look on her face...
the older lady escorting me, came back to me, and i asked if i could see the card, she showed it to me and it read "REAR MOUNT SPOILER SPECIAL, NO GREASE"
...NO WONDER THIS GIRL GRONED!!!!
i then proceeded to explain that this was yet another prank they were pulling.
i went bright red in the face, had my pockets shoved full of condoms by the call girls who were giggling their heads off, and got kisses all over me (which i really didnt want any of) and i was told it happend all the time, but there actually was a tab for where i was working so they thought i was serious....
needless to say i went back to autobarn and threw a radiator hose at my bosses head then laughed my *** off for the rest of the day thinking about it.

what a pleasent day that was for a 14/5 year old!!! :

If Autobarn had a tab there you should have taken advantage.

[devilracer_01]

Best ones Ive seen done as a Baker was we had a work experience kid so we sent him into the proover (45 degrees and 90% humidty) shut the door and told him to make sure all the hamburger buns had 32 seeds on them (10 on each tray and there was around 90 trays worth of them in there) he stayed in there and did it and was sweating like a pig afterwards

The other one was you would tell the apprentice there wasnt enough steam in the proover and he needed to bucket some more steam from another proover into the one with not enough steam, so he is in the proover trying to catch steam in his bucket

I think more back in the old days there were plenety of nasty tricks done to apprentice bakers such as liquid bunspice on the balls that would burn like there is no tomorrow, they would hold the apprentice down and drip the liquid bunspice onto his balls

[devilracer_01]

Originally Posted by 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.

Thats is fantastic I know the exact oven you are talking about

[SirJuggsalot]

Im not sure if this one is true, but one of my mates sisters friends was at uni studying to become a doctor or something. Anyways part of the course was to do work experience at a mortuary.

The blokes there were apparently a bunch of jokers, so they told the work experience kid to look in the oven window to see how the body was going that they were cremating. Just as he looked in they turned the oven up full blast, which made the muscles contract, forcing the corpse to sit up in front of this kid - it scared the living out of him.

Again I'm not sure if its a bullshit story or not, but funny none the less.

[flappist]

The funniest thing I have ever seen was a person who was not actually an apprentice but was the son of the personel officer so had a charmed life. This all took place in 1982 and the Searle St depot of WBBEB which is now Ergon Energy

Items that come to mind:

He was put on gardening detail and was mowing out the front during maggie season so he tended to get swooped a bit. This terrified him so he used to wear a helmet with a face on the back. It didn't really work so he work do a runner when ever the maggies came. But he would not let go of the mower so he would run into the nearest shelter with the mower screaming, including the workshop, apprentice annex, garage, store....

He was taken off that and made a store pleb. There was an electric push forklift (not ride on) we called K9 that was used to move pole transformers on pallets about the yard. We were all given a "licence" to use it for WHS reasons the day we started.
He did not have one as the head storeman was away the day he started and it was all too hard...
So we told him he had to get a learners permit first and put a L plate on K9 and also wear one around his neck. We made him a big one out of a cardboard box. This was the funniest thing UNTIL......
The wind picked up and kept blowing the L plate away. Every time it did he would stop, unload and then chase it down the paddock only to have it blow away as soon as he re-attached it.

[XCSEDAN]

Originally Posted by SirJuggsalot

Im not sure if this one is true, but one of my mates sisters friends was at uni studying to become a doctor or something. Anyways part of the course was to do work experience at a mortuary.

The blokes there were apparently a bunch of jokers, so they told the work experience kid to look in the oven window to see how the body was going that they were cremating. Just as he looked in they turned the oven up full blast, which made the muscles contract, forcing the corpse to sit up in front of this kid - it scared the living out of him.

Again I'm not sure if its a bullshit story or not, but funny none the less.

OH MAN I FEEL SORRY FOR THAT KID!!!! that would have made me crap my pants!!!

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

If Autobarn had a tab there you should have taken advantage.

no friggen way man, i was scared i was going to catch something just from having them kiss me!!!!! (who knows whats been where)
i later found out that place is also known to accept an extra $10 for a rubberless session....i nearly puked when i heard that! :

[Blue Oval Mopar Man]

When I was about 14 I worked after school at one of my old mans mates workshop. Got along great with the 4 blokes who worked there but being the jr of the place they used to give me all sorts of Shyte! The forman was fuggin huge! Rugby player and a hard bastard, but a practical joker! I got him back fo something one day and every one was iving him hell because I made sure they all knew about it ! at knock off while out the back washing up, HE picks me up like a peice of paper and throws me fully into the waste oil bin! Think large industrial waste bin, with no lid, about 700 lts full of sump oil! I climbed out black from one end to the other ! This was mid week! Come saturday morning about 10am I made sure I was first into the smoko room, cause quite often ,Nev used to take my toasted sandwiches I would make ,leaving me to make more ! So I left them where he could steal them real easy. Sure enough he took the bait , being all smug and cheeky about stealing my strawberry jam toasted sandwiches as he sat down with his paper and coke .When he took a bit he chewed it 2 or 3 times before he spat it out all over the table.

When he finally looked up at me thinking what the hell is on here , I was already standing in the only exit to the room, with a bottle of 515 loctite in my hand and a smirk . I winked at him and bolted as fast as I could !

[sprjenkins]

Originally Posted by devilracer_01

Best ones Ive seen done as a Baker was we had a work experience kid so we sent him into the proover (45 degrees and 90% humidty) shut the door and told him to make sure all the hamburger buns had 32 seeds on them (10 on each tray and there was around 90 trays worth of them in there) he stayed in there and did it and was sweating like a pig afterwards

Good way to get someone killed. I know blokes who have died/been hospitalised from heat stroke

[devilracer_01]

Originally Posted by sprjenkins

Good way to get someone killed. I know blokes who have died/been hospitalised from heat stroke

He stayed in there under his own free will we werent holding the doors closed and forcing him to stay in there.

[RepSpec]

i went to tafe with a motorbike mechanic apprentice who was in his first year, thought he was all that, knew nothing about how to fix bikes just ride them.

so one day he was doing a work book and couldnt figure out what something was in a picture, another bike mechanic told him it was an "anus seal". it took a few minutes but he eventually believed it and wrote it in his work book. later he was showing off his good work to the teacher and when he got to the anus seal we all burst out laughing.
poor kid didnt know what to do with himself lol


cheers
brendan

[Fev]

ah these just get better and better! im so glad i started this thread lol anyone else?

[paule11]

I know a chef who was getting annoyed by a waitress he told her to get in the cold room take off all her clothes and he would pound her she took off. He was glad to have a bit of peace and quite half an hour later she hadnt come back he went looking found her naked in the freezer he thought he had scaredd her and she ran away.

[thirsty]

I sent a kid to spare parts to get a couple of meters of falopian tube.

[Fev]

Originally Posted by paule11

I know a chef who was getting annoyed by a waitress he told her to get in the cold room take off all her clothes and he would pound her she took off. He was glad to have a bit of peace and quite half an hour later she hadnt come back he went looking found her naked in the freezer he thought he had scaredd her and she ran away.

did he pound her?! :P

[Ringo]

Originally Posted by thirsty

I sent a kid to spare parts to get a couple of meters of falopian tube.

[Campo81]

Originally Posted by Fev

ah these just get better and better! im so glad i started this thread lol anyone else?

Yeah they're great