Five Things Apprentices Should NEVER Do!!!

what are some of the stupidest like worst things that you could do as an apprentice [Music] all right the first thing that you could do the worst thing is to not know where the wire stretcher is I'm going to let you all figure that one out the second worst thing that you could do is to sit down on your butt one thing that drives me up a wall is when somebody thinks like there it's cool to just work slow not like hey I'm trying to be really meticulous and neat and make sure everything's good but just to like hey guys what's going on today absolutely gonna work on the Switcher switchering like lacksadasically just chilling we don't just chillin in the trades we work so you need to be working quickly not so quickly that you're breaking stuff and like dropping tools and everything there's a there's gears to this whole thing the best electricians out there are the ones that can shift gears they understand when it's time to downshift go a little bit slower and things need to be meticulous we need to like um we're in an environment where we can't break anything and like this job has enough money in it that like taking our time and going extra slow makes sense then there's times where you need to shift it and go faster and understand like we don't have as much money into this and we have a certain out and one hours that we have to hit still do clean good work but we need to pick up our Pace we can't just be screwing around on this kind of a job so a good electrician knows when to shift but a bad helper is a helper that just gets to a shop and sits on the ground and thinks like it's okay to take 12 minutes to put a plug-in they should take three minutes three minutes that's it I'm sorry receptacle not plug oh I can hear the comments already going mad little fingers okay so don't sit down like you you should run up kneel down get a good set of knee pads oh by the way on the knee pads thank you Klein for sponsoring this Klein has like a whole bunch of knee pads actually like 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could wear the heavy duty version of these knee pad sleeves they have a little bit extra padding on inside of them and the fabric that they're made out of is a little bit more sturdy and one cool thing about the knee pad sleeves is with both of them you can wear them under or over your pant leg so go out and get yourself some knee pads now the next thing that you can do to really piss off the journeyman Masters around you is standing around so like sitting is bad but also standing is bad you need to kind of levitate a little bit no dude what pisses me off more than anything is to see somebody just standing there just chilling and watching while there's somebody else right next to him sweating and just digging and working and this person sitting there just kind of like laughing they pull their phone out they're messing around their phone work dude like you're there to get paid you're there being paid to work you're not just being paid to like be lazy and watch other people work this laziness thing I don't know if you can tell like this is a nerve with me is just seeing people be lazy it's different to be continuously working and you just work slow I know people like that but that's not bad you're at least working but like just standing around not doing anything and if you don't know what to do I get it as like a new Apprentice a lot of times you just like don't understand what to do so you don't want to do anything but just standing there is not the right thing even if it's like first thing in the morning everybody's cleaning the shop and putting things away and you notice one of these things ain't like the other and it's you you're just the one standing there and everybody else is doing stuff don't be the guy that just stands there or the girl that just stands there ask somebody ask another Apprentice ask another journeyman ask the master if you're not if you're too intimidated like ask anybody just be like dude I don't I you're paying me to be here right now what can I do and if you don't know anything else to do grab a broom seriously every job site residential commercial doesn't matter if you're at the shop if you're like in the car you don't know what to do grab like a little mini broom and start sweeping the dash off no you're not going to piss anybody off by like cleaning things it's always necessary if you're like looking through material bins there's probably stuff that's in places it shouldn't be so like I don't know just start kind of like moving things around that you think might need to be there or ask your journeyman hey dude is there anything that you need me to stock in the truck are we low on wire nuts he might be like I don't know man go look and then you go up there and you're like oh yeah we don't have any wire nuts so like start doing stuff and I know it can be uncomfortable at first but just don't stand there and not do anything okay the next thing that I can't stand is people on their phones y'all youngsters now look this ain't a like get off the screens you got too much screen time because like you're a parent yelling at a kid I get your guys's cultures like way different you guys grew up in screens that's not what I'm talking about when you're at work you're being paid to do a thing you're not being paid to sit on your phone and like go hide in a different room because you're done with your thing and you just want to sit on Discord and like watch streaming videos of Roblox it's not the time to do it okay one thing that the generation below me I will call it my son's generation although my son's actually a really hard worker and a lot of his friends are too it might just be like being a meanie right now unnecessarily but I see it time and time again I see tons of people on their phones and it's not even just the younger Generations there's some people too that like are my age and I'll look across the job site and they don't know that I'm there and I roll up to check how their job's doing and I see them through a window and they got their hand on a ladder and they're just scrolling Facebook and I know because I'm friends with them on Facebook and I can see all their stupid notifications oh my God it pisses me off more than anything in the world so there's a time right wifey calls you you got your like Morning Call with her tell her to call you before the day starts tell her to call yeah like break time tell her to call you at lunch time you don't need to answer every text that comes through your phone right away either like a lot of justifications are like oh well my dad might text me and I need to be you know get back to him dude your dad can wait if it's not an emergency and here's the thing emergencies come up like obviously every once in a while there's an emergency and you need to like get on your phone that's fine but tell the people you're working with like bro today my dad's in the hospital I need to like be by my phone because you know like I just need to or like my wife is about to go into labor so like I might be on my phone a lot today sorry if I'm distracted I'm here but I just need today as like a weird day where I never do this again this is the day that I need to do it that's acceptable but it's the everyday all the time are you constantly on your phone all the time that irritate it's not even just me it irritates everybody like my age and older and we're the bosses so stay off your phone dude seriously leave it in the truck if you have a severe problem with it where you're constantly like grabbing every time it vibrates or dings or anything and you're like compulsion problems level of like paranoid about your phone keep it in the truck seriously you can go check on it every once in a while every like two hours just go check and make sure everything's fine but most people don't have enough problems going on in their life where they really need to they're just doing it out of boredom so don't be that person you're gonna piss so many people off all right number four something that really gets under people's nerves that if you're an apprentice and you do this you're not going to last longer you're just going to piss a lot of people off stop pretending that you know how to do things when you don't there's this look in an apprentice's eyes when I'm telling I'm like all right so do you know how to land these wires on a break or do you know how to like rip out wires and get everything set up on Breakers and they look at me and they're like yeah yeah I know and I'm like are you sure you know like you know like to run this over here and they're like yeah I got it nothing makes me want to throw a hammer at somebody more than yeah yeah I got it oh my God gets on my nerves because when they say yay I got it I know that there's no reason for them to say that other than they're feeling like they need to overcompensate for a inadequacy in some way they want me to know that they know something that's the only reason that you yeah yeah yeah I got it it's because you don't want me to keep talking as if you don't got it you just want me to know that you got it and that's not necessary I know you don't know things I'm a master electrician I watch you work every day your Mr Apprentice four months on the job you don't know anything you're not going to impress anybody for a really really long time and that's okay stop pretending that you know stuff the best thing that you can do when you're new and I would say probably the first two years of you doing this is just when somebody's explaining something to you or just shake your head and be like cool all right we'll do act like you don't know actually when you do things this is even a better test of like your emotional maturity when you already know something and somebody's telling you instead of feeling like oh I gotta let them know that I know so I've got to say something about this just practice being humble and just being like cool okay all right I got you yeah I'll do that okay cool that's it like that you saying that is you acknowledging that I just told you something I told you a specific thing the way I want you to do it and the only thing I want you to do is just go do it that way you know like I don't need any rebuttal I don't need to be like well yeah I was gonna do it that way yeah yeah I was already gonna do it or like oh I think I should do it a different way it's like no no you're not there yet once we get to a certain point where I'm like yo uh what do you think we should be doing or if I'm doing something and like you've been around the block around enough so that like I know that you know what you're talking about and you say something I'm gonna be like oh dude that's a great idea like absolutely but just it's it's the like it's not even asking questions or like talking too much that's not what I'm talking about it's the obvious you don't know what you're talking about and you want to pretend like you do know what you're talking about so you just say something like yeah I got it and then you go do the thing and you completely mess it up because you actually didn't know and you actually weren't listening or the other part of this is when somebody tells you something and they're like do you understand and you're like yes I understand way and say uh I don't remember anything he just said and then you get over there you're like I'm just gonna get over here and try to figure it out he said something about a red wire damn it there's no red wires here I don't want to go ask him again so I'm just gonna I'm I'm just gonna like try to do this and then you do it and then I come back after you've been there for an hour and I told you to literally just go put a wire nut on a black wire you know I'm gonna come back and be super pissed because you burned an hour we just paid you an hour to do something that I just told you and you said you knew but you didn't know all right the last thing this is definitely not the last thing I just have to end this this is I don't know 17 minutes now of me yelling at apprentices I love you apprentices just sometimes there's just you know the last thing though last thing we're going to talk about there's this thing that happens when an apprentice knows where a tool is in a van or a truck and they're like I need this tool to go do this thing so I'm gonna go get it goes over grabs thing out of truck takes it to start doing work and then goes home at the end of the day with the thing still in their bag and then the next day they're on a different truck and that journeyman needs that thing and they go in there and they're like what the you took my thing because you didn't say anything about it you just went and took the thing and now you have the thing and now you're like oh God I don't want him to know that I know that so I'm gonna throw it in the pool and pretend I don't have the thing don't do that I mean like that's the worst case but even when you text your helper you're like bro you got the thing and then like two hours of Silence because they don't want to say anything they don't want to get yelled at and then they're like finally yeah I got the thing oh my God that irritates me at least say something like to the German you can go grab the thing some jury men are not gonna want you to some are okay go grab the thing and as you're walking by be like bro got the thing and they're like cool put it back in the truck when you're done and even if you don't at least maybe when they're in the truck on the way home they can be like yo you put the thing back and then you're like oh crap hold on a second thing back I know I'm kind of feisty today but these are these things irritate the living hell on me if you can't tell they really irritate me so um a lot of my stuff and the worst thing is when you're running a job and everybody knows hey master electrician Dusty's got all the Cool Tools because they all all these people give them all these Cool Tools so like six people go in and out of your vehicle and you don't know who has anything and then none of them give them back or somebody puts things in a weird place in a glove box when they took it out of a bag behind your seat and you just don't know where any of your stuff is so please dude either tell somebody if you're using their tools and this goes for like other apprentices too if you're going over to somebody's bag you're like oh dude there's a thing that I need yell at them across the job and be like bro can I use the thing and they're like no you never give things back don't use my thing then you know like the next person hey bro can I use your thing yeah I don't care cool but like let people know and one better yet put stuff back it's like it's like the easiest thing because you went to get it so just go and put it back be respectful like this stuff costs money a lot of people have to pay like hundreds of dollars for stuff or another thing is like you go take thing and you bring it and you put it on top of wall and then you go home at the end of the day and it's on top of wall still and then Mr plumber's like whoa that fancy Milwaukee tool up there you like mine so parenthesis those are my five inalienable things that you can do to really like royally get a Spartan Kick to the chest at lunch time um so Be Kind Rewind think about what you're doing out there you're getting paid to do some stuff take this stuff seriously respect people be humble be a student ask lots of questions work as hard as you can work every day always try to find the line where you're working fast enough that you're being efficient but you're doing the best cleanest possible work that you can do and those two things it's like a moving Target it's this wrestling match where you realize the faster you work the sloppier your workmanship is so you kind of have to back it off because you need to make sure that there's a certain quality so you're battling the slowness but then you got a journeyman over there that's yelling at you like bro what's taking you so long so you're like okay so you're kind of like balancing this thing but don't just stick on one side or the other side like always try to find that point and then as you're going through your career you're gonna get better and better at this you're going to become somebody the best electricians out there I swear to God the best ones out there can out think stuff so they don't have to work they they like think of all the problems ahead of time they save so much time on a job site because they're able to shift gears they know what to do where to place people how fast they need to go and how neat they need to be to make this profitable because it's not just about hey do the cleanest work you ever can so we can put this on Instagram that doesn't always matter and it's not always like work as fast as you can so we can get all of this stuff done that doesn't always matter either profitability to accompany matters that's why you're there that's why they pay you all this money for your license it's so that you can profit the company so the best way to do that is to work fast enough and clean enough so that you have a killer reputation you're not out here wasting people's money because you're taking so much time that you have to quote a four-hour job to be 24 hours you know you're just taking money unnecessarily where another company could have done it in four hours and done it cheap but you're also doing such clean work that it's undeniable your quality those are the best things because you're going to keep getting more and more and more work anybody's going to want you on their truck constantly and you want to be the person everybody wants around you I trust you you're gonna get the best work best opportunities people are going to stand up for you you're going to have pay advances people you're never going to lose your job because people don't want to lose you like you're such an asset but if you're the person standing around just not doing anything person on their phone person sitting down when they get up to stuff instead of doing a receptacle in three minutes you're doing it in 12 minutes if you're this person that you're doing all this thing you're you're gonna be the person that everybody's like God get them off my truck I don't want them and after enough people that that happens you're gone so be the opposite be the person that puts themselves into every single thing always always trying to learn always trying to know more always like um when they don't know something is asking more questions and fully making sure they really understand it I would rather you spend more time making me know that you don't know something that make me think that you do and you screw our whole day up anyways enough ranting at you I love you crazy people if you want to watch another video on like what it means to be a journeyman check this out this is my other channel during your master if you want to see what it's like to be a good follower I think this is a really good video here all right love you crazy people and I'll see in the next one

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Length: 18min 56sec (1136 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 23 2022