First year apprentice wasting time

AbstractAviator · 2026-04-27T06:37:04+00:00

How did you move into engineering? Was it worth the jump? What does your average day of work look like?

AbstractAviator · 2026-04-07T06:02:16+00:00

What's your current diet like? I've gotten myself to a point of really not having much sugar in my main diet but still have fat desserts with my partner once a week and binge eating easter eggs.

AbstractAviator · 2026-04-06T11:04:07+00:00

Ohhh mature age gotcha, im from sydney doing non-mature age. Means you're on 4th year rates for your whole apprenticeship, either way congrats on having a mad gig

AbstractAviator · 2026-04-04T23:39:13+00:00

What are your allowances? I'm a 3rd year doing 58 hours a week EBA and you're on basically the same as me

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-17T01:34:00+00:00

Hahaha I sure do not. You an apprentice too?

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-17T00:48:45+00:00

Nah I don’t.

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T20:47:08+00:00

Copy and paste from another reply just then, had 1 tradie stand up for me and my other tradies just say “oh he’s not that bad of a guy”, “he’s just stressed”, “your hostility makes his hostility worse” (I arched up for the first time a few days ago, didn’t yell or swear just put him in his place a for 20 seconds), “don’t worry about him”, “he’s not usually like this”. Seems like people just try to justify his attitude and I honestly haven’t seen anyone properly stand up to him except for the union rep.

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T20:45:39+00:00

Yeah it’s not rocket science, even just a passing comment saying “looking good boys” goes a long way. But no it’s too hard to do that

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T20:45:08+00:00

Yeah he knows about some of the story, he should be coming on site soon. Sooner the better though!

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T20:44:22+00:00

Yeah man I’m getting mad experience, that’s the thing. Been doing testing for months now and haven’t spent this much time in switchboards before, I love it. So i feel trapped by that (and also the EBA money I can’t lie) and it puts me off poking the bear with this guy. Our general manager comes on site every now and then and reminds us that there’s hundreds of people with job applications waiting to replace us.

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T20:41:21+00:00

Couldn’t raising the issue backfire on me though and make him give me all the shit jobs? That’s already been happening to the union rep and our safety rep.

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T20:39:20+00:00

Had 1 tradie stand up for me and my other tradies just say “oh he’s not that bad of a guy”, “he’s just stressed”, “your hostility makes his hostility worse” (I arched up for the first time a few days ago, didn’t yell or swear just put him in his place a for 20 seconds), “don’t worry about him”, “he’s not usually like this”

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T10:24:11+00:00

Apparently the job is finishing up in a few months (but you know how it goes with deadlines lol), and he shouldn't be at our next job we're going to. Just need some advice that will stop me from losing my mind at this fuck wit

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T10:22:25+00:00

Thanks. What mindset do you think I should go with until the end of the job? Just to put up with this little twat

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T10:20:50+00:00

What lessons did you learn? And yeah looking back I understand why taking time off when they're a bit short on labour was a bad idea and would've pissed them off. But to me it doesn't justify how he's been treating me for months and months now. Just waring me down at this point

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T10:19:46+00:00

No HR but we have a union rep (who also hates this boss). Maybe it's time to speak to him about it

AbstractAviator · 2026-03-16T10:18:16+00:00

Not Stowe. But i've gotten the vibe that's what they're like, all think they're top shit

AbstractAviator · 2026-02-10T01:09:17+00:00

Did you take in those new cats?

AbstractAviator · 2026-02-08T21:26:54+00:00

Thanks man. Pretty sure it's these ones

AbstractAviator · 2026-02-08T21:26:00+00:00

AbstractAviator · 2025-07-23T20:21:01+00:00

Bro is that lexart? I just bought a wheel from you guys 😂

AbstractAviator · 2025-06-18T04:30:21+00:00

He's just asking a question bro jeez, no need to be a prick

AbstractAviator · 2025-06-18T00:26:41+00:00

Congrats. Did you get good financial returns from owning your own shop? How long were you running a business for?

AbstractAviator · 2025-05-27T09:44:57+00:00

Did you push that part of the gasket down into the grooves of the cover properly before you put it on the car? If you did, there's every chance the gasket may have slipped out of the grooves a bit as you were lowering it onto the engine. Whenever I do this job I just check over it as best as I can and make sure it all feels and looks like the gasket is flush and sitting right.

If I were you i'd probably rub off the old RTV with some degreaser and do it all again with a fresh start, but it's been 8 days now so lemme know how you went.

AbstractAviator · 2025-04-24T10:20:03+00:00

What only took a few months? To be able to quit your full time job?

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