OT Apprentice abuse

[ARW]

So for the last three days I picked the apprentice up from his house and told him I would pick him up a 7am

Thursday he came out of the house at 7.03am Friday he came out of the house at 7.03am

I only found out that he was with me today on Sunday so I sent him a text that said "I will pick you up at 7am and that means 7am in the van not walking out of the house at 7.03am"

I got back the following

"Then you had better message me when you get to my house instead of just waiting outside"

I did and he got in the van a 7.02am, 4 minutes after my text.

So tonight when I dropped him off I said "As a special treat for being late three days in a row you will no longer be picked up at home and you must be waiting in the Indian Restaurant car park on the main road. If you are not there at 7.00am I will not wait"

He threw the biggest wobbly ever and then actually used the words "that's so unfair"

Anyone want to place the odds for 7am in the morning?

[Nick Odell]

My kids each did paper rounds when they were -erme- kids. I don't know if that's even allowed these days but the early starts certainly helped to prepare them for work in the real world.

Nick

[Adrian]

In message <se9cks$vqn$ [e-mail], ARW [e-mail]> writes

"Life is, you might as well get used to it"

Adrian

[Robin]

He may hold the view that "being on time" is a "white value" designed to perpetuate white privilege.

[Tim Streater]

What doing a paper round and having to get up early taught me, was that I don't do well getting up early on a regular basis. A very useful lesson.

[Sn!pe]

PMFJI

You could point out that a bus wouldn't wait for him.

[Richard]

WTF? You're getting soft.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Is he Spanish? That seems to be a Spanish trait. Nobody in Spanish territories ever arrives anywhere on time. There seems to be a very laid back attitude to clocks generally, I'm also told that the Greeks can be like that. Maybe it is actually better to be more relaxed about actual timings generally, being a slave to the clock causes much stress you know. By the time I had been working a couple of years the company I worked for abolished the clocking in and out clock, and people worked mostly the right hours. Brian

[charles]

[Chris Hogg]

In Cornwall we have 'drekly', which is described as 'a little like mañana but without the sense of urgency'.

[R D S]

Like my youngest, he'd never get to work at 9 but always just a few minutes late. I tried everything from threatening to sack him to explaining how much I see it as a depressing lack of respect to customers, couriers and ME.

I don't know what time he gets to work these days so it can't bug me except for the times when I *am* there at 9 and he isn't and I just want to lose my shit.

[Max Demian]

I've always thought how mean it is to get kids to work for a couple of hours early morning and then expect them to go to school, which seems to be a way to keep them off the streets until tea time. I'm all for them working, so why not allow them to work a normal morning and just have lessons in the afternoon? Most school-time is wasted with the 2 hour lunch break and pointless lessons.

They could do office work or light assembly in factories.

[tim...]

here speaks a lot of people who have never had the misfortune to suffer from insomnia

[Nick Odell]

Which reminds me: how on earth are you supposed to clean chimneys properly these days when they all seem to have flu liners?

Nick

[R D S]

Oh, I know he doesn't suffer from insomnia. I'll tell you what he suffers from, being mollycoddled.

Quick tale, When he started secondary school he was living at his mum's but at ours weekends and Wednesday. The school is roughly half a mile from our shop at the time. I said i'd drive him as far as work and he could walk the rest of the way, this went down like a sack of shit. Week one I get to work, i'm unlocking and his auntie rocks up in her car and drives him to school, later that day his grandma dropped him off. That's how he's lived his life. Nobody will let him do anything for himself.

This went on until I put my foot down and insisted in no uncertain terms that he got to school & back under his own steam, the daft bastard got himself run over.

In my opinion kids are too well looked after and mildly brain dead as a result.

[Owain Lastname]

It's like the Welsh 'yfory' means 'not today'.

Or in South Wales, 'I'll do it now in a minute'.

Owain

[whisky-dave]

Do they have covid liners now ?

[whisky-dave]

Consider yourself lucky that you don't work with students.. I was on holiday last week and at 16:00 friday I got an email asking, Can I come to the lab before the weekend as I need some components urgently. I replied back about 16:30, and said I'm not in , send me a list of what you need and I'l have them ready for you to collect on Monday morning when the lab will open. Not had any responce since him.

[soup]

Were are the people who do the office work and the light assembly now going to work if all these schoolchildren have taken their jobs?

[Paul Herber]

India and China respectively.