CLAUDELANDS APPRENTICE SENT TO AUCKLAND FOR TARTAN PAINT AND A LONG WEIGHT, FILES VIDEO APOLOGY FROM PANMURE RESENE

Guys. Guys. I never thought I'd have to make this video. deep breath So a lot of you know I'm doing my apprenticeship out of Claudelands. On Tuesday the boys sent me to Auckland for a tin of tartan paint and a long weight. I want to be transparent with my community. I did that. I drove the Hilux up. I got a pie at Pokeno. I am doing the work.

pauses I want to start by apologising. To my foreman Macca, to the lads, and to the Resene lady in Panmure who I made cry. Sharon, if you're watching, I see you, I hear you, I am so sorry. Sharon stood there forty minutes while I asked, quote, "have yous got the tartan in a four litre or do I need to grab two twos." Sharon. I'm so sorry, queen.

I rang Macca about the long weight at 1pm. He said "yeah mate, just keep waiting, they'll bring it out." So I waited. In the carpark. Next to a bloke eating a Subway in a Transit van. And I want to acknowledge, because accountability matters, that the bloke in the Transit was laughing at me on the phone. I have had to sit with that.

Macca rang back at 4.15pm. He was at the Hillcrest Tavern. He said, and I'm reading from my notes: "you soft cunt, drive home." That's between me and Macca. Macca's a good cunt. We are healing as a crew. But the boys put it on the site WhatsApp. With the dashcam. Which Macca had been recording the whole time. From the ute. Which I did not know had a dashcam.

A Hamilton City Council building inspector said the incident raised "no compliance concerns" but that he'd "heard about it at Chartwell New World and had a good laugh." Mate. Read the room. Nobody asked the clipboard.

I'm taking time off the tools to focus on my mental health, and also because Macca said I'm not allowed back till Monday. Links below for my new course on accountability.