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What to do with a failing apprentice........ bin him but what are the legal problems that may arise.
lets hope hes not a member on here....Its probably facebook related, ours is still hopeless and still has the attention span of a tick tock video, we only keep him because 1, he hasn't got attitude and 2, he is cheap labour. I couldn't get a labourer with half a brain to do what he does for the money we give him so stupidity does have its upsides.
I'm going to have say that is a pretty unpleasant assessment of someone.Its probably facebook related, ours is still hopeless and still has the attention span of a tick tock video, we only keep him because 1, he hasn't got attitude and 2, he is cheap labour. I couldn't get a labourer with half a brain to do what he does for the money we give him so stupidity does have its upsides.
Its probably facebook related, ours is still hopeless and still has the attention span of a tick tock video, we only keep him because 1, he hasn't got attitude and 2, he is cheap labour. I couldn't get a labourer with half a brain to do what he does for the money we give him so stupidity does have its upsides.
It may well be but its pretty accurate. If he is daft enough to not listen and therefore not progress he is going to be on rubbish money forever and if he isn't capable of doing more technical things then all that's left to do is be a van monkey and a brush monkey. The young of today seem to think it works the other way round, ie:- if we give him more money then he will do more stuff, sorry but it doesn't work like that.I'm going to have say that is a pretty unpleasant assessment of someone.
Depends what you mean by "apprentice", this isn't some college kid who still needs his nappy changing, he is 19 now and finished his training a year ago, he is just another paid worker now who doesn't take anything on board you tell him but thats his loss, I don't mind if I have to do everything myself, its usually quicker anyway.Apprentices are not cheap labour!
Your attitude is disgusting, you are failing the apprentice as much as they are failing themself.
Brutal. Too many people with that attitude in this industry at the minute. We were all there once, young lads/ladies all deserve a chance.Its probably facebook related, ours is still hopeless and still has the attention span of a tick tock video, we only keep him because 1, he hasn't got attitude and 2, he is cheap labour. I couldn't get a labourer with half a brain to do what he does for the money we give him so stupidity does have its upsides.
Whatever you feel about him I doubt anyone one on here is impressed by your posts. Your negativity about him is a possible reason for the way you say he is and I have pulled many trainees from what I thought were impossible places.It may well be but its pretty accurate. If he is daft enough to not listen and therefore not progress he is going to be on rubbish money forever and if he isn't capable of doing more technical things then all that's left to do is be a van monkey and a brush monkey. The young of today seem to think it works the other way round, ie:- if we give him more money then he will do more stuff, sorry but it doesn't work like that.
Err... he's had a chance, we took him on. I' ve told him about his phone but he pulls it out of his pocket probably 20 or 30 times a day. He has now taken to hiding behind the van to facebook when he goes to get something.Brutal. Too many people with that attitude in this industry at the minute. We were all there once, young lads/ladies all deserve a chance.
Once someone has the phone addiction there's no coming back from it no matter what you try, its worse than crack. The only time it will stop is when the inevitably walk out in front of a HGV.
Well what would you call him? He did 2 years at college from 16 to 18, now he works for us. He is just a worker now like every one else. I call him an apprentice because an apprenticeship used to be 7 years long. We pay him NMW.
Agreed, but we are now talking about the attitude of the employer to the apprentice, there is always two sides to any conflict.We kinda skewed off at a tangent. We’re not talking about the OP apprentice now.
True but everybody was reacting to Oscars postsSkewed off....
I meant to add, that the OP is named Poggy.... not Oscar.
We should be using this thread for Poggy's situation, as Oscars has been mentioned on another thread already... We're just repeating ourselves with it.
OP are you a one-man band set up have asked previously.What to do with a failing apprentice........ bin him but what are the legal problems that may arise.
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