ARW wrote:
On 04/12/2019 22:00, Steve Walker wrote:
On 04/12/2019 20:11, wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:03:51 UTC, ARW wrote:
This year we have 2 third year apprentices. Neither of them can
fit a back box straight, wire up a two way lightswitch etc etc.
Could I suggest that being able to wire up a two way lightswitch
should be an *entry criterion* to being an electrical apprentice?
Fairly sure I could have done it at 16.
In fact I was probably doing it about 8, with a battery and
paperclips and brass paper fasteners for switches :-)
I think I was about 12 or 13 when I installed the two mains
spotlights, pair of dimmers and changed the switch near the door of
my bedroom from a single gang to a 3-gang, with two way switching on
both the spotlights.
When they start with use they cannot use a screwdriver. Things were
different 10 years ago, they get worse every year in most cases. Every
so often you get a good one.
I remember having an apprentice, he was 21. We were hanging fire
extinguishers on the walls in a very posh accountants office. I asked him if
he knew how to use a drill and a screwdriver. He said yes. I left him to it.
The next day I had to go back as what he had done had fallen off the walls.
He made me look like a right ****.