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Originally Posted by boss310
Do you employ apprentices? trust me if not, a first or second year in a fitting and machining shop is not doing me any favours. I have apprentices because I'm passionate about my trade and manufacturing in this country.
We would spend two days making a $1200 shaft on a manual centre lathe rather than bashing one out in two hours on an NC to train an apprentice, so that isn't a favour to me, when they drop a $400 piece of carbon, that isn't a favour to me, leaving the lid off a $200 tin a paint in summer....you get the idea, the riches some here think the government provides would be swallowed up within the first year.
A lot of employer bashing here, we're not all ****** and aren't made rich by our "slaves"
Spike
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I didn't intend to insult you. Not by any stretch. Its an honourable thing to faithfully enter into mentoring an apprentice.
I was highlighting the rogue traders out there like my first employer who basically raped me of my time and effort and fully intended to continue that shameful practice. I did however detail that my second employer was of the highest order and took a vested interest in my growth of my trade skills. This is no doubt the same approach you take.
As with any industry scheme there are highs and lows and I experienced both.