I joined just to relay these two wee bits. Im in the IBEW and was working 2 sites for 2 foremen. One didn’t do my hours bc he thought my main foreman was doing them. So I was missing 8 hours from 2 months of checks. I took my apprentice to the break room and told him to just fuck off while I checked my hours. I had to tell him again to sit down and not organize things bc I’m trying to teach him something along the lines of “when you are missing hours you stop everything to sort it out”

Another time I had a second apprentice and got the monthly safety doc to go over with them, one of them had already gone over it the day before he came to my site. I asked him if he wanted to keep pulling wire or sit down for 10 minutes for story time. I had to tell him it was rhetorical and sit down and take a 10 minute break while I read the safety doc to them.

I fucking love teaching apprentices how to look after themselves and take every extra bit of time for themselves they can from the company.