The intelligence of youth!

[mel]

I've got a young apprentice that works for me, a good enough lad if a little dim, the history is that his parents live fairly close to me and when I took him on the deal was that I would give him a lift to work and back every day but he had to work my hours for a flat days pay, so he often has to sit around for an hour or so waiting in the evening. So last night I left for home at 4 as the snow was coming down hard and I knew if I hung on it would probably take a couple of hours at least to get home this meant he got an early finish.

However in his youthfull logic he realised that if I was snowed in this morning he'd get a day off, about 7 oclock last night this was the idea he came up with!!!!



The flaw however in his plan was that I'd got home and gone round the pub, I had my car keys on me and a shovel in the boot so it took all of 30 seconds to get in and he's now just getting into his 3rd hour of clearing the snow in the yard at work with a spoon and yes it's coming down hard again while I sit at my warm desk watching him on the CCTV!

[JakeS]

Well you can't question his motivation... to get off work any way possible.

[bigTee]

[Frankeh]

Hahahahahahaha, that's great. He deserves a pay rise for that prank.

[Charlie Foxtrot]

any chance of some pictures of him clearing the yard? please.

[soad]

He's not that dim then.

[mel]

I've just let him back in but I'll take a pic of the CCTV replay

[M400 NBL]

Is it just me who can't see the pic in the OP? Going to check on the phone. Might be blocked by work!

[TonyHetherington]

Superb!

[mel]

I'll give him some credit the "snow bricks" were superbly made having been molded in a washing up bowl!

[Frankeh]

All I can think about now is how that would have made about 1/4 of an igloo.
A bit more effort and he could have had an igloo instead. How much better would that have been?!

[louiebaby]

Reminds me of a very old "Roger the Dodger" cartoon from my youth. If I remember correctly he did all the windows, but not the door. He was scuppered when the post was delivered, and had to go to school.

With our posties, it's not a realistic situation, but it was in the Beano about 20 years ago...

[smifffymoto]

I would have given him the day off just to reward his cheek.

[snotrag]

smifffymoto said:

I would have given him the day off just to reward his cheek.

I think thats brill, obviously must have a bit of a spark of personality to try a stunt like that.

[Neil H]

Promote that man!

[mel]

Oh he's promoted alright ! As he has obviously got a liking for snow he's done a sterling job of clearing the yard, he's now chief snow shoveler.

[Frankeh]

That's meeean. I would have got him to clear the door then called it a day.

[soad]

M400 NBL said:

Is it just me who can't see the pic in the OP? Going to check on the phone. Might be blocked by work!

Must be blocked by work internet filtering!

I can see them fine.


Lad is certainly working hard in the second photo!

[OnTheOverrun]

He definitely deserves a bacon sandwich for that prank - let him sit in the warm while you fetch it!

[P924]

I hope you're training him to be a brickie