caning the Electrical Trainee

[GMES]

Evening Mike

 

[Guest77]

Evening Glenn, I had a Electrical Trainee working with me all day today, I wrote a lovely piece on it as well and this site then crashed all my work, so I am sulking for the rest of the evening now

 

[GMES]

I try to copy and paste if I do similar I have had it happen to me and caused me to royally throw my toys out of the pram

 

[Essexboy7]

To the op,that is the best description of the Electrical Trainee scam i have read.These schemes are just preying on desperate and gullible people and making our industry more unsafe

 

[Guest77]

Yes I should of Fella, basically the short version was I had a lad who paid 6k for a 5 week course turn up on a large commercial job today, an agency sent him, it was his first ever day on site and he got a white plastic credit sized card with his name, picture and one word written on it for his 6k outlay, it said "electric" and the word was in bold red, he was a smashing lad, but 6k, come-on what are these skill centres doing to these kids, it is criminal, if I get the energy back I may rewrite my experience with him today and repost, my enthusism isn't high enough yet though for a re-type lol.

 

[GMES]

Mike can you draft it up on your laptop/pc then upload to forum.

 

[Adam W]

What was this card he had? Was it like a CSCS card or just something the training centre had knocked up themselves?

 

[Guest77]

What was this card he had? Was it like a CSCS card or just something the training centre had knocked up themselves?

Hi-Adam, no idea what the card was mate, I have never seen one before, it was I think from the skill centre he took a course with, it didn't say CSCS on it, just "ELECTRIC" and I told him I had never seen one of those, he didn't look impressed either when I told him I only reconised a gold card, nice lad, smashing lad in fact but a million miles away from being a spark, yet his course suggests he is and he was sent to the site from an agency lol

 

[R G]

It might be a card to identify which department he was in at the training centre , I suppose they might have other scamming sections as well , like plumbing , HGV driving or even the Driving Instructor scam dept ..

 

[HappyHippyDad]

Yes I should of Fella, basically the short version was I had a lad who paid 6k for a 5 week course turn up on a large commercial job today, an agency sent him, it was his first ever day on site and he got a white plastic credit sized card with his name, picture and one word written on it for his 6k outlay, it said "electric" and the word was in bold red, he was a smashing lad, but 6k, come-on what are these skill centres doing to these kids, it is criminal, if I get the energy back I may rewrite my experience with him today and repost, my enthusism isn't high enough yet though for a re-type lol.

If it was a Part P course Mike, he shouldn't be offering himself up for commercial work as (like me) he wouldn't have the knowledge or experience to deal with it.

Now... if you took me along with you one day on a house re-wire, I'd be asking you at lunctime 'Wheres the next house?" :wink_smile: