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Andy Chancer	12/05/2022 21:50:04
27 forum posts	Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 12/05/2022 17:56:06: Posted by Andy Chancer on 12/05/2022 16:24:32: ... Im of the age where as young lads in our first jobs we saw the last of the "fun" stuff where the HSE now would be closing the place down,and where there would be several gross misconduct dismissals for "bullying" in the workplace... ... Good news Andy, several forum members are keen to spend the weekend giving you an old fashioned 1950's workplace bullying! Everything from compressed air up the backside to battery acid in your tea and a really fun joke with a Megger in the bogs. We're all looking forward to it - we don't often get volunteers! Dave haha I’m half a century away from that time,my first days in the workplace was early 2000s,not quite the extremities you describe,but loads of oil in air tools,long stands for things at the stores,and even people being took up on overhead cranes was regular.As was setting things on fire and watching people panic,I seem to remember a lot of “character building” shall we say aswell.As said things that would lose people their career now.Nothing personal just cheap laughs.
Jon Lawes	12/05/2022 22:22:13
1078 forum posts	Posted by Mike Poole on 12/05/2022 18:31:34: A trip to our stores as an apprentice was likely to result in being enveloped in a cloud of French chalk or a soaking, there would be trouble these days. The world seems to have had a very successful sense of humour bypass. Mike Is it a sense of humour bypass? I've never found humiliating someone very witty. Obviously I don't have a sense of humour. Pratical jokes on apprentices seemed to be more commonplace when our workplace was a government agency, as soon as we were made a company and profit became important wasting time was taken a bit more seriously by managers.

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