Some painters are stupid, some aren't.
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On construction sites they say, "If you can piss you can paint." As someone who used to teach trade apprentices how to paint, I sort of disagree. My stock reply to shut them up was, "If that is true, paint the toilet bowl so it doesn't peel."
I know how to paint glass and plastic and I know most people wouldn't have a clue how to go about it - especially hairy assed builders.
Once we had an apprentice
Ed the Editor's personal blog corner
On construction sites they say, "If you can piss you can paint." As someone who used to teach trade apprentices how to paint, I sort of disagree. My stock reply to shut them up was, "If that is true, paint the toilet bowl so it doesn't peel."
I know how to paint glass and plastic and I know most people wouldn't have a clue how to go about it - especially hairy assed builders.
Once we had an apprentice who was so bad at everything he did, it was funny. On one occasion he pasted the wrong side of the wallpaper and although he didn't think it looked quite right when stuck on the wall, he carried on till he had completed a whole room.
Another time he was sent to work for another tradesman, a lucky chance for him, really, because there wasn't a lot of work going on at the time and we would have had to lay him off. We gave him his bus fare for the interview, and told him the times and the name of the stop to get off at. The next day he came in and we asked him how he'd got on.
"I didn't get the job."
"Oh, what was the reason?"
"I never got to the interview."
We went mad at him, thinking he had slept in or something. But then we were crying as he explained the course of events.He had caught the bus and sat down, looking out the window for the names of the bus stops. He hadn't been able to spot the signs and sat through to the end of the route.
Instead of saying something to the driver, he just sat there till the bus was full again and returned on the homebound leg. He kept looking out the window for signs of where to get off, but still no joy and still no thought to asking someone. He got off the bus outside his house and went inside till the next day. That is when he came to see us with his news.
It was so embarrassing calling the painter to tell him the news about the misfortunate lad with about as much initiative as a fricking carp. And in answer to a question, yes, he did get the job, and they even paid him for what he did.
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