Chancers Re-visited. We started a technician bit back. Mid 40’s, worked for BMW and Audi before emigrating to Oz, where he’d been a forklift engineer and worked on wagons. I put him servicing our DAF that we use for internal moves. Next thing he‘d got the cab a third of the way up, weight on the ram, working between the wheel and arch. He didn’t know you were supposed to take the cab all the way over. We put him through an internal forklift course. Passed test at 12 (barely, we found out later), at 1 pm gets on the truck without checking it, (knows what he’s doing, remember he was a forklift engineer!) moves a pallet, parks truck across a walkway with the forks a foot in the air.
Someone asked him if he could weld. Yes. What processes? Can’t remember, it was in Australia. Can he use oxy to de-stress a plate that had just been welded? Course he can, just before trying to light the oxygen. So we just put him on ultra-low risk jobs, just below what we’d get a first year apprentice doing. Wants minute instructions on every job, even what size spanner to use, but if you pick him up doing something wrong he gets the arse because he knows what he’s doing. Manages to injure himself on a weekly basis, regular sick days, always on the phone, apparently to his doctor who seems to change his medication on a weekly basis. Frankly I don’t even trust him to carry a torque wrench, let alone set one and use it. I think his days may be numbered.
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