Apprenticeship? What a joke!

[tim.....]

I couldn't believe that either

tim

[Mark]

Is is just me that thinks that the minimum wage for apprentices[1] is shockingly low? IIRC apprentice wages were higher in the 1980s when I worked in the aerospace industry.

[1] Using the original meaning of the word.

[bert]

In message , harryagain writes

Ah the snobbery that says we are too good to start at the bottom.

[stuart noble]

However mundane the work, it might teach them to a) get up in the morning and b) talk to grown-ups. A lot of real world jobs actually require little else

[Mark]

My local school has employed a few school leavers as apprentice technicians. I don't whether to count these as proper apprenticeships or not since it is likely they will not employ them beyond the end of the apprenticeship.

[Tim Watts]

On Thursday 18 July 2013 03:25 Bill Wright wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Wasn't that a good thing? Or do you have a weak heart ;->

[Mark]

She was wearing a bikini?

[Tim Watts]

On Thursday 18 July 2013 10:56 Mark wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Hotpants are back. I see them on the train. Luckily, adorned by the suitable rather than the unsuitable :->>>

[Bill Wright]

She was too old for me.

Bill

[Tim Watts]

On Thursday 18 July 2013 11:33 Bill Wright wrote in uk.d-i-y:

*wibble*

[ARW]

That was so sweet.

[ARW]

Unless there is a qualifiaction at the end of it then they are underpaid.

[harryagain]

The only litter that gets picked on our nearby road is picked by me.

[Dave Liquorice]

What again! That'll be the third time, I must be getting old...

[Dave Liquorice]

That is more of the issue rather than whether an apprenticeship in Street Maintenance is "real" or not.

They should come out the other end of it with a paper qualification, the experience and hopefully a good reference. This makes them far more attractive to another employer.

[Nightjar]

As short shorts they can be dated back to 1945, so you probably are :-)

Colin Bignell

[Tim Watts]

On Thursday 18 July 2013 21:48 Dave Liquorice wrote in uk.d-i-y:

2nd time for me - and the first time, I was probably too young to appreciate...

Sometimes I really wish I was 20 in the 60's :)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Nah. 60s crap till 67....

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Likely some press git made it up or some council git did their usual puffery to make it all feel nice.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Oh, that too. Not forgetting the stories that don't get printed for fear of putting noses out of joint in the local council chamber or nick.