NO One wants to be a plumber??

[plumb_know]

been advertising for plumbing apprenticeship for 3weeks with only 3 calls and only one person turn up for trial. guess no one wants to be a plumber any more??

advertised with college, Facebook, street life

 

[Last Plumber]

Perhaps they're frightened of hard work ?

 

[Best]

Tesco and others pays more for much less work and plenty of the opposite sex and socialising as you work. Can't blame them for avoiding a trade.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Sorry to say best has hit the nail on the head short of pay them qualified rates you won't find many young that will be willing to graft and do hard work

 

[SimonG]

Lidl paying 10.60 an hour. Leave brain at the door.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Lidl paying 10.60 an hour. Leave brain at the door.

Exactly more than a qualified plumber round here gets a week less stress on body as well

 

[REDSAW]

job center, local rag?

 

[Best]

At over £400 a 40 hour week at Lidl is good money.
No brains needed as said, no real hard work, no stress, no work van or tools expenses needed, no waiting on wages or other self employed business problems.
Joke is some of the people who work in these stores are grumpy and complain of the hard day they have.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

At over £400 a 40 hour week at Lidl is good money.
No brains needed as said, no real hard work, no stress, no work van or tools expenses needed, no waiting on wages or other self employed business problems.
Joke is some of the people who work in these stores are grumpy and complain of the hard day they have.

But bet they don't fancy swapping for a week

Plumbers / heating eng are a dying bread that do it for the fun of it

 

[Last Plumber]

Last apprentice we had spent first 16 weeks at college on health and safety.
I'm all for being safe but he wouldn't do anything I asked due to everything being life threatening !
That's how it sounded anyway.

Learning a trade is a long hard slog at low pay as we all know.
It's all I.T. Or sports science or tesco/lidl jobs now.

Who's going to fix my heating when I'm too old to do it anymore ?