Facepalm stories of an apprentice / trainee

I was asked to pour two bags of mix into the shake machine once. I could barely lift them as a weak 16 year old. I poured the first one in and was halfway through the second when people came running as the vat was full and it was just spilling out on the floor. I had no idea as just concentrating on holding on and pouring it in.
 
Years ago, when I was fresh out of Uni and scrabbling around in the dirt in some God forsaken lost Elizabethan manor that wasn't really lost as someone had already dug it up I was sent to the local B&Q for a long wait/ weight and a spirit level bubble.
Of course I knew that they were testing/ pissing about with me but I did as I was told. Except I buggered off for most of the day. Had a lovely time in the warm and the dry, had a couple of beers, some lunch and a good nap in the car by a lovely river.
Upon my return mid afternoon my how they all laughed when I told them I'd been sitting in B&Q for all that time.
 
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Years ago I sent a new colleague out to get some I D ten t.
After about 1 hour he came back with a box with a handwritten sign saying "IDIOT", saying he got some.
He still didn't get it after reading what had been written on the box.

Done the short weight as well as the long stand, always gives me a giggle!
 
Worked in a Ford main delaer when I left school in the parts department. Hated it. Anyway, we had loads of card boxes to take to the skip and me and the other apprentice put them in and then got on the forks of the forklift truck, raised them and were jumping off to flatten them.
On one occasion a nail on a piece of wood punctured my skin going into my foot.
The boss took me to hospital as I hadn't had a tetanus jab. This mechanic said it may hurt as it goes into my arse...... silently I was driven to the hospital.......
The nurse called my name and she directed me into a curtained booth and said for me to get ready and she'd be right back.
She opens the curtain and looks down at my jeans and undies around my ankles....
"What are you doing?" She asks....
"Getting ready for the injection" I sheepishly reply....
"It's in your arm" she counters....
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Worked in a Ford main delaer when I left school in the parts department. Hated it. Anyway, we had loads of card boxes to take to the skip and me and the other apprentice put them in and then got on the forks of the forklift truck, raised them and were jumping off to flatten them.
On one occasion a nail on a piece of wood punctured my skin going into my foot.
The boss took me to hospital as I hadn't had a tetanus jab. This mechanic said it may hurt as it goes into my arse...... silently I was driven to the hospital.......
The nurse called my name and she directed me into a curtained booth and said for me to get ready and she'd be right back.
She opens the curtain and looks down at my jeans and undies around my ankles....
"What are you doing?" She asks....
"Getting ready for the injection" I sheepishly reply....
"It's in your arm" she counters....
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Ladies and gents, meet our Eggheads contestant
 
I was switched on as an apprentice so didn't fall for any of that shite like skirting board ladders and sky hooks.
 
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