Work Experience

Red and White · 30 Jan 2007 at 10:43

got a 16 year old lad on work experience at the mo. kept him busy yesterday doing interesting stuff, but im busy today so ive given him a giant box of cables to untangle. rubbish job i know but id have to do it eventually.

anyway he just came into my office and said " this is to complicated"

:eek:

WTF!

Kell_ee001 · 30 Jan 2007 at 10:48

Maybe he meant frustrating :confused:

Or perhaps complicated as in it keeps tangling itself?

Red and White · 30 Jan 2007 at 10:50

Kell_ee001 said:
Maybe he meant frustrating

Or perhaps complicated as in it keeps tangling itself?

maybe. but i dont think he did tbh

anyone else got a work expereince person?

VIRII · 30 Jan 2007 at 10:51

He means boring

We're discussing some fun experiments for a group of young students due in a few months to our lab.
Health and safety are dampening our fun factor though

4T5 · 30 Jan 2007 at 10:51

Thrash him with your keyboard. Then point to the Chimney. Give him 3 choices. Cables, chimney sweeping or repeated keyboard beatings. Then whatever he chooses stand over him barking, You young'uns just don't know how lucky you are, when i was young i had to carry 8 bags of coal 72 miles on my back with no shoes on or overcoat in winter and done it all before i went to school. WIMP. Then beat him again just for the sake of it.

Note.
Author will not be held responsible for any criminal charges/convictions if you follow his advise.

Fergie · 30 Jan 2007 at 10:52

To be fair that's one hell of a cruel job to give to someone, it's damn frustrating untangling wires.

platypus · 30 Jan 2007 at 10:52

If he meant boring or frustrating, why wouldn't he have said boring or frustrating. Complicated does not mean either of the two, it's not complex.

VIRII · 30 Jan 2007 at 10:53

platypus said:
If he meant boring or frustrating, why wouldn't he have said boring or frustrating. Complicated does not mean either of the two, it's not complex.

Perhaps he doesn't want to say boring...

Helium_Junkie · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:00

Seriously, find something useful for the lad to do. You took on the work experience, you really need to put some effort in. Those students aren't just free slaves.

platypus · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:02

Helium_Junkie said:
Seriously, find something useful for the lad to do. You took on the work experience, you really need to put some effort in. Those students aren't just free slaves.

Signed, *** or whatever.

It's pretty sad what some people think they can get away with giving to work experience/student placements people.

Andr3w · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:03

my work xp was stupid. school sent me to work with joiners/builders/plumbers etc. All i did all day was stand next to the ******* radio because the signal worked when i was next to it :mad:

VIRII said:
Perhaps he doesn't want to say boring...

Aye i agree here, maby it was getting hard for him, but thats because its boring and he didnt have full concentration

4T5 · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:09

Kids have got to learn that you Have to do things you don't want to.
Teach him a valuable lesson and make him do it, if it was a real job he would be sacked if he refused to do something. It is called work experience so give him some work experience. Explain to him that it is a job that needs doing and you are aware it won't be fun but it has to be done.
If he messes about send him home, sack him whatever.

hardc0re_tid · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:10

if i was to give you a box a cables to untangle and sort out would you want to be standing there trying to fight with them.

Helium_Junkie · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:11

malc30 said:
Kids have got to learn that you Have to do things you don't want to.

he's already in school....

platypus · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:16

malc30 said:
Teach him a valuable lesson and make him do it, if it was a real job he would be sacked if he refused to do something.

Rubbish, that is exactly what contracts of employment and job descriptions are for; to stop employers exploiting their workers.

hardc0re_tid · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:18

dont push him too far, if you get him to make your tea he may slip some/full bottle of ex-lax in it lol

dont think we'd see you posting here for a bit

VIRII · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:19

andr3w said:
my work xp was stupid. school sent me to work with joiners/builders/plumbers etc. All i did all day was stand next to the ******* radio because the signal worked when i was next to it

ROFL

I think that is really funny

platypus said:
Signed, *** or whatever.

It's pretty sad what some people think they can get away with giving to work experience/student placements people.

I sometimes get students dumped on me in my lab because our work is varied and interesting. However it also requires certain skills and knowledge that a lot of students just do not have.
Apart from basic paperwork / filing and tidying away what can I give to a student? I can't ask them to set up accredited experiments because they won't have a clue what to do, I can't let them operate machinery that could kill them or me, they can't communicate on a technical level, they can't prepare quotations for customers, I can't send them down to the machine shop to mill up some fixtures ..... what exactly can they do?

I don't want to have a bored teenager in my lab counting the minutes till they go home, I don't want to waste their time or mine but in a skilled environment what choice is there

I'm conscious of how I would feel in their shoes and I do my best to involve them in our work when they are here but their involvement is naturally limited.

Red and White · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:20

i never had a choice in the matter. i wouldnt have taken him on.

manager came and said youve got this lad on work expereince next week :mad:

4T5 · 30 Jan 2007 at 11:21

platypus said:
Rubbish, that is exactly what contracts of employment and job descriptions are for; to stop employers exploiting their workers.

And that is exactly the kind of attitude i expected of a member of the weak lilly livered youth of today.
How is getting a youth to do a job you would have to do exploiting him. The O.P. has already said he would have to do it himself. The whole point of employing youths etc is to get them to do jobs for you to free up your time as the employer can be more productive. jesus christ i cannot believe you think he is being exploited what a wimp whinging git you are

Omg cables, it's boring, i don't want to do it, i may hurt my hands and get bored

Pathetic. I would send you and him back to school stating just how useless to my business you both are

Red and White · 30 Jan 2007 at 12:56

soul destroying jobs now required

please list ideas below