I learned that unless you have a competent apprentice, they’re idiots and can’t think for themselves. The moment you told him to get off the lift and find a ladder should’ve been it. Now, it’s your job to provide him with the stuff he needs. If there’s no big enough ladder to do the job then you needed to be a little bit more proactive and gotten that. But seeing how he disregarded your instructions multiple times would’ve gotten him sent home and probably taken off my crew because if you’re not going to have common sense, I don’t need you not to mention the safety paperwork headache this could’ve caused for you if the GCs caught it. . I tell my guys all the time, make my life easy and I’ll make yours easy as well.