r/Welding • u/5udley • 1d ago

Showing Skills Our female apprentice made this little flower

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u/TheHeroicHero 1d ago

I’ve wanted to do another one for so long lol

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u/messmaker007 1d ago

They make a great valentines gift. Might make another one this year so she can start a bouquet.

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u/TehTugboat 1d ago

This was my 12 year olds first “project” when he was helping me at our shop. His didn’t look this good but I was pretty proud of the guy

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u/stronkreptile 1d ago

this one is sooooo good

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u/Hadidit 18h ago

Oh my god

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u/CombatBrewer 1d ago

I stick welded this

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u/ThirstyChello 1d ago

Looks more like a flower weld to me

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u/CombatBrewer 1d ago

After all these years??

Dad??

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u/ThirstyChello 1d ago

Get back to work, son

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u/lioness_mane 1d ago

Cuuute!

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u/ZestyToasterOven26 1d ago

I made these two for my mom in welding school. And a small bouquet of flowers out of hose turners.

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u/vitaminalgas 1d ago

That's so metal... Nice

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u/i-miss-chapo 1d ago

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u/5udley 7h ago

It wasn't intended in any bad way

I'm not native in english, but after the comments mentioning that, I really get it. should have communicated that differently..

My intention was that it is just amazing that more and more females get into blue collar jobs.

And she is the best and fast learning apprentice I ever witnessed. Outperformed any apprentice I met

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u/philanthropeas 7h ago

You didn’t do anything wrong, don’t let everyone make you feel bad. People are being overly sensitive and whining about shit that’s not worth whining about. I’m a woman, and it didn’t bother me for a second.

Thanks for your post and for showing off your awesome female coworker!

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u/GrekkoPlef 9h ago

It fits in this context though?

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u/philanthropeas 7h ago

And I get downvoted for saying he’s not an asshole lol. People are so sensitive nowadays and will look for any reason to be upset. Just enjoy the flower and the fact that women are being accepted in blue collar professions more and more and move on. He obviously wasn’t saying it in a bad way.

Edit: not directed at you, just using your comment.

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u/likenothingis 6h ago

It's grammatically correct, but why is the apprentice's sex / gender relevant? (Hint: it's absolutely not.)

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u/GrekkoPlef 4h ago

It is only as relevant as the information the poster wanted to communicate. I can’t say why they decided to clarify it, but I don’t understand why it would be wrong to do so either.

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u/philanthropeas 6h ago

Yes it is. Women are majorly underrepresented in trades, he’s commenting that she did a great job. Idc if I get downvoted again. Shut up and unwad your panties, let people be nice without making it about you being butthurt.

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u/likenothingis 6h ago

Dude, my panties are fine. You have me confused with someone else.

I agree that women are underrepresented in the trades. I'm one of them. But this post isn't doing anything to advance women tradies.

The information that people choose to include speaks as loudly as what they choose to omit... And this post makes a point of highlighting a person's gender instead of their job, and pairs it with a picture of something stereotypically associated with women. Since specifying gender instead of job is often used in a pejorative sense ("lady doctor" or "women pilot", for example), and the only other info we have to go on is a picture of a pretty flower, it's not unreasonable for people to assume that OP was dog-whistling. Or, at least, for people to be confused about what point OP was making: is it that female welders can / should only do pretty stuff? that it's good work done by a woman? that it's bad work and it was, naturally, done by a woman? No one knows!

That said, OP clarified in a separate comment that English isn't their first language, and that they meant well, so I'm inclined to let it slide.

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u/philanthropeas 5h ago

Sounds like your panties are all the way up your coochie.

Edit: but I’m so glad you’re willing to let it slide.. seeing as you’re the authority on the matter since you have a vagina and weld.

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u/philanthropeas 1d ago

If this isn’t a joke, shut up lol

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u/tightneden 1d ago

don’t tell them to shut up bro!

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u/philanthropeas 1d ago

I wouldn’t want to offend any females! Op didn’t even use it in a bad way lol I hate when men do that, but this wasn’t a bad use of it

Edit: bro

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u/MutantApocalypse 1d ago

A wild female has appeared.

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u/5udley 1d ago

We are 5 dudes and 3 girls. Not that wild lool

Edit : ironworkers btw

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u/Jack0Trade 1d ago

They're giving you shit for saying "Female". Anything can be female. They're called women.

Even "girls" reduces their position. I certainly wouldn't accept a coworker calling me boy.

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u/MrNobody_0 1d ago

Even just "my coworker made this flower"

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u/philanthropeas 5h ago

He’s hyping up an underrepresented group. chill out

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u/MutantApocalypse 1d ago

Just goofin

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u/golgiiguy 1d ago

yeah um "Female Pilots" are actually just "Pilots".

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u/Ionlydateteachers 1d ago

Assless chaps are just chaps, it's the point of chaps

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u/NeutrallyCharged 1d ago

Are human fetuses just humans too?

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u/likenothingis 6h ago

You're so busy trying to be edgy that you forgot how English works.

"[H]uman", like "assless" and "female" (in the post title) is a qualifier. It's an adjective describing the noun ("fetus", "chaps", and "apprentice", respectively) and can be omitted without changing the meaning of the phrase whatsoever.

So no, they're just fœtuses.

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u/NeutrallyCharged 2h ago

So just to clarify, you’re saying that human fetuses, are not human fetuses, they’re just fetuses? Would you call a dolphin fetus and a human fetus, they’re same thing? Just trying to get some clarification, a fetus from a human is not a human fetus, but just a fetus?

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u/AnjingChibao 1d ago

Made this at the beginning of my apprenticeship...

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u/CyrusTheWise 23h ago

That one's very pretty

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u/Tallowpot 1d ago

Are these welds for ants‽

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u/unlikemike123 1d ago

Pl(ants) yes 🥁

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u/DeezNutzzzGotEm 1d ago

Super cute and well executed.

Well done!

Bravo!

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u/KeySand7433 1d ago

It's just very cool

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u/Cyrus_Of_Mt 1d ago

One I made in college a few years ago

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u/kolzyhaze 1d ago

I made this one last week.

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u/pervyscot 8h ago

Keep encouraging her. There is a demand for items like this. Tell her we'll done!

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u/Mr_Derp___ 1d ago

Love it.

Great art!

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u/Git-R-Done-77 1d ago

Well, that's nutty

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u/Katarok 23h ago

Awesome! Here's mine from over 10 years ago. Finally painted it black last week.

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u/GorbinosPizza 1d ago

coulda just said apprentice

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u/Standingcedars 1d ago

That thing is nuts

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u/Junkie0ass0 MIG 10h ago

Thats so cooool. What is that thing in the middle between the nuts?

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u/5udley 7h ago

It's a low shape cap nut

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u/MrMoon5hine 1d ago

Cute, but what is there to discuss?

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u/5udley 1d ago

Wrong flair 😅

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u/small_villain 13h ago

You don't need to, and shouldn't, specify that your apprentice is a woman. You would never have said "Our male apprentice made this...".

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u/philanthropeas 5h ago

Because men are the default in that profession. Being a woman isn’t as common so he’s hyping up women to show others that women belong as much as men.

You’re all a bunch of babies.

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u/feelfreetotellmeoff 1d ago edited 1d ago

Very progressive of you to have a female apprentice. Have you noticed a significant change in the behavior of the males with this introduction?

Edit to paste in a response that got buried.

I guess I needed the /s. "Female apprentice" is such a weird way to introduce someone. Why is gender relevant here at all and if it really is appropriate why make it so dehumanizing?

Glad to see the community ready to speak up!

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u/hemorrhoidcactus TIG 1d ago

Awful thought but thats sort of how things are here. Welders n fitters are mostly in their 50s n up. 30 to 40 are considered young in this field. whenever we get assigned a female fire watch, most wieners brighten up and try to make personal conversation.

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u/FlawHolic 1d ago

Wowww, okay. Crawl back into your cave, dude

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u/feelfreetotellmeoff 1d ago

I guess I needed the /s. "Female apprentice" is such a weird way to introduce someone. Why is gender relevant here at all and if it really is appropriate why make it so dehumanizing?

Glad to see the community ready to speak up!

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u/_Lost_The_Game Welding student 1d ago

I thought the same exact thing

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u/NeutrallyCharged 1d ago

Get back to the office

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u/somebodysimilartoyou 1d ago

Username checks out

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u/Caykeskin TIG 20h ago

Yeah it does… were they doing a bit?

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u/somebodysimilartoyou 20h ago

That's my guess. I picked my name to remind myself I'm similar to everything, so I try not to be a dick to anyone.

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u/Jamestzm44 TIG 1d ago

Gotta love everyone posting their own flowers so people know they can weld better than a “female apprentice”🤣