aprentice tiler

[beanz]

If a wee lad has a spare minute, if he's asking what you need then he's a keeper, if he's on his phone he's not.

nowadays you cant get em off the damn phone! :mad2:

 

[widler]

2 once they know what they are doing theyre off

One of mine has been with me for 8 years, 4y apprenticship(plastering) he is a pretty decent tiler as well although he would rather plaster
I dont ask em owt, ive always rang collage asked them for a lad who has been on a coarse for a year or 2, take them for a week if they are useless i sack em off if they are ok i start em at the beginning, they teach them absolutely nowt on the full time coases

 

[Rookery]

Question. Who do you support?
Answer. Man Utd

Close the door on your way out :smilewinkgrin:

 

[afright]

Had a young lad straight from school once showed him how to knock up sand & cement 3 buckets of sand 1 bucket cement mix left him to do it he was gone ages went out to see what he was doing,he said he has only got one bucket and he was looking for more buckets,I think he went back to school.I know we need up and coming tilers but just have not got the time to teach.

 

[Andy Allen]

when we did site work we took on many young lads to try and train them up, because good tilers were in such short supplie...

just getting them out of bed in the mornings was a joke, i even had one of the mothers come out to the van asking us to take it easy on him today as his backs a bit sore from yesterday...:mad2:

out of all the lads we took on only 2 cut the mustered, ones working in germany and i catch up with him now and then on face book, and the other i see in the tile shops, and hes still doing well for himself working on the sites..

 

[widler]

when we did site work we took on many young lads to try and train them up, because good tilers were in such short supplie...

just getting them out of bed in the mornings was a joke, i even had one of the mothers come out to the van asking us to take it easy on him today as his backs a bit sore from yesterday...:mad2:

out of all the lads we took on only 2 cut the mustered, ones working in germany and i catch up with him now and then on face book, and the other i see in the tile shops, and hes still doing well for himself working on the sites..

i once went to pick one up,he came to the door with a brew,said 'i won't be a minute just having me brew' i drove off never to see him again

another one i had, i was skimming a ceiling i shouted for the lad for some clean trowel water,no answer,went to get it myself he was fast asleep on some rolls of insulation :lol:
didnt bother picking him up again,ive had about 10 or 12 and only 2 have been worth there weight in gold,one still works for me the other is on his own but we meet up every couple of months for a few beers(well loads,usually end up toy fighting :lol🙂

 

[AMtek]

A good indicator is the questions they ask you rather than the answers to the question they ask. If their first question is how much will they get paid, they don't get a start

 

[beanz]

A good indicator is the questions they ask you rather than the answers to the question they ask. If their first question is how much will they get paid, they don't get a start

To be fair, that is something that needs to be ironed out before they start. Would you start tiling a job without knowing how much money's in it!?! Let's face it, we all go to work for the money.. I know if I didn't need the money, I'd never lift a tile again! I'd be off travelling round the world lol!

 

[DHTiling]

They are a nightmare with bloody mobiles... So say straight off , if caught on the moby during grafting time then he is gone...

my lad is always on his phone , flipping GF...

 

[merit]

problem is we tar them all with the same brush , give em a days work, you will know if they are worth your time