Sending the apprentice engineer to un block the mens urinal and getting covered in stale p*ss Sending the apprentice engineer to the print floor where all the women worked and being too scared to go in because of the abuse you would get. Sending the apprentice engineer to the warehouse, which was a scary place because of all the thugs that worked there and would give you abuse Being sent to stores to get a long weight and then get a bollocking when you came back with nothing but had been away for 20minutes I could go on for hours about being an apprentice. Worked out all right though as I am now Engineering Manager at a big food factory. Never did me any long term harm! Some short term maybe...
My lathe was working flat out all the time, requiring regular topping up of slurry, no time to grow Bacteria in it.
whilst on one of the RFA Ships around Norway, we had a dental Wren attached to our unit. She was acting as duty corporal and was in charge of the ships tannoy. Someone asked her to make a ‘pipe’ along the lines of “will all M.U.F.F divers please report to Mike Hunt”. The ships warrant officer had a major breakdown.
Wot, no ppe? Where's his hard hat, hi-viz, gloves, goggles, steel toe boots, has he carried out a risk assessment, written a method statement and been issued with a "permit to work" Life was so good back then and factories were full of genuinely skilled people. Happy days methinks.
Long lathes with a tractor seat on the saddle. To make running adjustments, when making long lead screws.
Nurses wearing stockings & suspenders. Wards with adequate numbers of staff. Pathology labs with home-brewed hooch, staff multitasking (drinking & smoking whilst looking at patient blood films down a microscope). Plenty of spaces in the hospital car park (and without staff having to pay).
