Advice to an Apprentice.

[Time's Ran Out]

Could be anything from Watch, listen and learn to Good job!

For me it was - wear gloves!
Sand and cement pin holes are very painfull.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Could be anything from Watch, listen and learn to Good job!

For me it was - wear gloves!
Sand and cement pin holes are very painfull.

Good advice there John, I might add the odd "get off that bloody phone"

 

[Time's Ran Out]

40 years ago it would be trying to find the red box on some street corner!
It will be like radios soon and they will be banned on sites.
What I find is Tilers spend all their time on those Forums instead of earning real money.

 

[stone tiler]

The day end when the jobs done, not at 3.30! That's the point I have to keep ramming home

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Surely that's a Draconian point of view made by a tyrant employer rather than the present day approach of understanding employment laws.
The encouragement of additional remuneration for production would be a better way of installing the work ethic that you seem to suggest.
If the apprentice is on the job for 7.30/8.00 and does a solid days work, with travelling times he can be doing a 9 hour day at least. 45 hours for a basic wage seems reasonable for most.

 

[stone tiler]

Haha I've been called a lot of things but Draconian is a new one...tyrant is what the wife calls me!!

I suppose it depends on the "basic wage" element. What is the minimum wage today?

And travelling can't count as part of the workday either, that's just life. Asda etc don't count travelling in their daily working hours allowance and they also ban mobile phones/facebook/tea breaks whilst on the job. I'm actually far too soft!! haha

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

We had no mobile phones no Pizza Hut, no subway we had to carry the hand cart and the horse up the cobbled streets when the horse got tired all this off a dry scrap of Hovis**yawn**:drool5:

 

[CJ]

Bloody hell........listen to you old farts.

Makes me feel young......even at 52. 🙁

 

[mz30]

Haha I've been called a lot of things but Draconian is a new one...tyrant is what the wife calls me!!

I suppose it depends on the "basic wage" element. What is the minimum wage today?

And travelling can't count as part of the workday either, that's just life. Asda etc don't count travelling in their daily working hours allowance and they also ban mobile phones/facebook/tea breaks whilst on the job. I'm actually far too soft!! haha

Have to disagree with the travelling time,people who work in asda generally live close to work,am doing 130 miles a day I give the boss two hours in the morning he gives me two hours in the afternoon,or I simply wouldn't travel that far.🙂

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Bloody hell........listen to you old farts.

Makes me feel young......even at 52. 🙁

Definetly - but what advice can you provide ( other than not listening to old farts)