I'm an apprentice electrician...
... and I'm currently on an enormous building site. Over 100 working bodies, probably closer to 200, including 20 from our company alone.

As it's such a large place it's easy to spend days at a time doing nothing much as long as you keep half an eye out for The Boss (who is, it has to be said, a complete and utter slave driving See You Next Tuesday).

Activities we take part in to pass the time are many and varied, but to name a few:

Filing down both ends of threaded steel rods about 4 inches long and wanging them into plasterboard, ply and foam insulation.

Making 'ninja death shurikens' from strips of plastic with screws in designed for automated screw guns. Simply twist into a circle, pop together and hey presto, a small ring of death that will stick into the aforementioned building materials. Or your workmate's leg.

Making tables and boxes out of scrap wood and metal conduit. These actually came in very handy for transporting materials and using as workbenches in the end.

Crafting 'marble runs' for tennis balls from various metal framework and conduit. I have 50 odd videos on my phone of us doing this.

Beaning said tennis balls at each other.

Lying in wait for a fellow sparky to wander round the corner, then twatting him on the bonce with your hard hat. As he is also wearing a hard hat, this doesn't really hurt, but does deafen him for the next ten minutes.

Scrawling countless graffiti pictures and slogans on every surface available.

Reading B3ta on my mobile on the shitter. Gotta love unlimited mobile data packages.

Generally giving all tradesmen a bad name.

Thanks for reading, this is my first post of what will hopefully be many. Bout time I came out of the woodwork and stopped lurking!
(AprilFool, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 19:15, Reply)