The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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CWB Certified? Pah!I'm a welder, and I used to work for a company that did heavy structural welding. I'm not going to go into much detail, but we definitely made things that could fall on people and turn them into red stains on the concrete very, very easily. Everyone was supposed to be CWB (Canadian Welding Bureau)Certified. Was I? Was I fuck! Did they know that when they hired me? Absolutely. When the inspector came around, my boss told me I should try and "look like a general labourer". I no longer work there, unsurprisingly.
On the plus side, nothing I've made has ever actually crushed anyone to death (crosses fingers). And frankly, I've run across some really shit welders who are CWB certified: it's no guarantee of anything, frankly.
(, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 21:06, Reply)
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