I'm not evil !

[perry]

It's work experience time

Usually a few of the guys refuse to take any in the workshop . Oh wait hang on , I've missed a big part of back story . Our shop is quite large and often even the managers aren't privy to us getting a load in every few months . A lot of the time we struggle to find them things to do around the store and they tend to get led into the workshop and divided around between the different departments . A few months ago four of them got led in, lined up and one of the guys went , erm , well have , that one . I spent the next half hour creased up because it just seemed like slavery , get them to show us their teeth and all that

Anyway , zombie james got eliminated a couple of weeks ago , hope he can't read this , we are all scared he was going to stab us :?

But this week and next as far as I know they are from a proper school . I think I have counted 4 or 5 in total . We got one brought in monday . Before he could be refused I picked up my mug and asked if he knew what it was . He did too , bang on ; I showed him where the kettle was and he can make a good cuppa , so we ( we meaning I ) kept him . As you can imagine , zombie james couldn't make a cuppa . His tea looked like coffee , bad coffee at that :x

After we had the lad build a bike I ummed and arred for a bit and asked a few questions . He is going on to 6th form studying maths and wants to be an engineer . So he was ideal for sorting our spokes out .

Now I don't see it as being a bad job , tedious sure but you can take as long as needed , get to sit down and as long as you don't make a major mistake it's nice and easy .

Everyone in the shop who has come into the workshop the past two days has seen him sat there , quietly getting on with it , bloody well too I'll add and asked

" who gave him that to do ?

And whoever else is in the workshop has fingered me out as being the whip holding evil one

I'm not evil , I'm not , dammit .

 

[longun]

its charactor building and he will remember you forever

we was really evil to apprentices etc when i was younger,not gonna post anything cos they were very eveil........and cruel :twisted: lol

 

[Andy B]

Sorting out spokes

You're doing him a favour! Just remind him that if he fails his exams this is just the very same type of repetitive boring work he'll be doing for the rest of his life

And then get him to make another brew...

 

[perry]

It needed doing and we have been threatening to do it for a while but we all knew how much of a ball ache of a job it would be

I might sort him out with a shop sized ( to go in a dispenser ) bag of minstrels . We got one for the workshop last week and it only lasted us two days .

I have just realized I am slightly evil as I have just added his sheets to the spreadsheet I did last night and we have a lot more spokes than it looks like on the shelf over 100 different types and an average of 120 spokes of each

I don't remember seeing him use a calculator :shock:

I'm not going as far as to have them in number order on the shelf , we grab boxs so it would be pointless , having them in revo , comp etc is good enough .

It's worthwhile as now I have a spreadsheet I can see any blatant gaps and it will help when someone comes in after an odd quantity ; we usually have to spend 20 mins looking through the whole lot and seeing if there are any extra boxs to make up the numbers . Having 20 of the same spoke in one box and 20 in another isn't too great .

I didn't mention but he has been measuring them too . Over time odd spokes have made their way into the wrong boxs .

 

[jonnyboy666]

ahh the good old work experience nipper!

i gave one kid a nickname and he's still known by it now and 10 years have past!!

the nickname was c**ksmeg!

the reason was, his sister from the offices that were above the shop came in to ask if he needed a lift home and he went mental at her! i couldn't believe it! it was totally unprovoked! but he had already spent 3 days annoying me! so i just let rip and called him a smeggy little c**k! then decided that for the rest of the 2 weeks that would be his name as punishment.

his mates came in the shop and it stuck from then on!

he'll never forget me!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[perry]

I was told that a group a couple of years ago were made to sing a song .

There's a few out on hire that are litter picking and the one upstairs is pumping up tyres . so it could be worse , plus being in the workshop makes him top of the pecking order

The only way it could be better would be if he was on clothing . Clothing is 90% female

Zombie james was passed around like a bad smell . We had him each tuesday for a few months and in the end we had to lose him to other areas of the store , before they got wise

I sent him upstairs one week , knowing full well that I was going to get an earful from one of the guys . It was about 5 mins before they came down all " wtf ! your having him back "

" no way , you touched him last , he's yours now "



We told him to put the boxs in the skip one week . We end up with a lot of bike boxs and we have a big skip ( kinda container thing ) at the other end of the carpark . We thought he would realize there was a door :roll: we spotted him tearing chunks of box and posting it through the little air slats . Too scared to tell him . Then he must have realized one week as we could hear him inside it . After that we were all too scared to go to the the skip , in case he was hiding inside it ,

 

[mikeekim89]

This thread is great!

 

[legrandefromage]

we discovered one who can make decent tea

we nearly cried

 

[mattbrown]

my work experience, at my local bike shop was luckily uneventful,

 

[rosstheboss]

Aaaah, the fun you can have with the new kid/work experiencer....

Have you tried the adjustable spanner trick?

Bloke: "Can you get me an adjustable spanner please?"

Lad: "Yes"

Lad comes back with spanner

Bloke: "Sorry mate, this is an imperial one, can you get me a metric one..."

Lad: "Errrrrrr ok......."



I'll post a photo of our new kid being punished in a tick...