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Originally Posted by TilingLogistics  I understand where you are coming from and can only empathise with your frustration.
My first couple of weeks on an NVQ :
I was told to learn to look telephone numbers in London up
Taught to make a tile staff through a video
Allowed to tile a Herringbone pattern I grouted it and got a bollocking no grouting till at least three months.
Taught how to calculate M2 area I learnt that when I was 10.
It went on and on
Some time ago i interviewed a guy who had just completed his NVQ 2
I asked him three questions
What is the difference between Class B and Class AA adhesive? (I know the classifications have changed now as well) (No Idea)
Explain Briefly Tanking? (No Idea)
Tell me what a Datum Line is? (No Idea)
He added things to his answers of no idea but I won't bore you with the drivel
Give me a tiler who has paid for a good quality intensive course any day 
Kev
Kev |
I just spotted this post and the penny dropped so I then read some of your other posts. Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive.
You my friend were only on the
NVQ course for two weeks anyway.
You did not receive a bollocking for grouting but you did get one for that crap window that you did saying and I quote “ its not my job to straighten the wall out” I suppose they didn’t teach you that on the two week course you did at PITTS did they.
The interview that you mention is also shall we say economical with the truth.
The boy had just left school at sixteen years old and had not just finished an
NVQ he had just started one (unlike you he finished his) so he probably didn’t know the answers to your questions at that time. But can you answer why you told him that if he started work for you he had to pay £250.00 for three t-shirts and two trousers?
You also clamed to be a Specialists in Grinding, Honing, Polishing and Sealing of Marble, Granite, Travertine, Terrazzo, Limestone, & all Natural Stone.
Haws that then as when you went on the
NVQ you were a clay pidgin-shooting instructor in Spain.
Is that how you become a specialist now get some tools print some cards and that’s it you’re a specialist.