Shop pranks
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slip knot
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Never greased a toolbox but we put 12 cans of spray foam into one a while back. Makes quite a mess. Works good on lockers as well. That where I originally saw it done. Masked off all the gaps and let it go. pulled the tape off a coupla hours later.
stonewellmark
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when someone was in the bathroom we'd take an air hose with an air blower (one that you could just turn on and it would stay on) and stick under the bathroom door. They would always come out covered in nasty bathroom floor dust. Pretty funny until it happens to you. We'd also take the rubber flex exhaust hose, hide off to the side of the bay doors and start talking to people as they walked by the garage doors......funny as hell watching someone start talking to the....I dont know what they were talking to.
Case IH
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One of mycousins works at a welding shop and one of the guys by him always has 2 cans ofcoke by his station, one with the tab down that he drinks out of and one with the tab up that he spits into because he chews so one day my cousin said he was going to go switch the tabs and placement so the guy drinks his spit (that stuff is nasty just an FYI) im not sure if he ever did it tho.
Spareparts
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We had a field supervisor that was a real as*****, so bad that his own dad offered him $10,000 to change his name. Well one day he rubbed me the wrong way again and before he got his truck back I took a little lighter fluid across the front of his seat. He went to the Dr a couple of times for the rash that wouldn,t go away.
Old southern textile mills had wooden floors. Loom fixers(repaired looms when problems came up and set up for diffferent runs of cloth) had homeade wooden tool boxes, some quite nice, I have a couple. One prank was to nail the tool box to the floor so the guy would have to get it loose before going to do a job.
KEH
KEH
ZRX61
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Glitter in the heater ducts? I use the contents of office 3 hole punches.... WHOOF! confetti!
glitter is the herpes of the arts and crafts world....
Scout Driver
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There was a guy at a previous job that thought he above the rest of us. We would block up the right rear of his pickup so that the tire was about 1/2" off of the street. He'd jump in after work to leave and his one-wheel-wonder pickup would go nowhere. He was subjected to this at least once a month.
Scott
Scott
ihredo4
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We used to do the dry ice in a bottle bottle trick. Best one was when the subject got distracted by another accomplice and a third party dropped the "bomb" in his shop coat pocket. Never saw anyone bail out of an office chair when their coat pocket blew up before.
Same coats would be left on hangers outside the lunch room. When we got done eating we would go put our coats on and see whose coat we could find. We would tear the corner off of ketchup, mustard and mayo packets and drop them into the coat pocket. What is the first thing you do when you find something in a pocket with you hand. Yep lots of dirt coats and hands.
Best one my uncle did. They had a guy who was sneaking into the shop while they were working. This guy was always pulling some prank. Well Uncle Dennis got up one morning and killed a rattlesnake on the way across the yard to his shop. It was about 5 or 6 foot long. He let it lay out behind the building and the guys went to work. Fortunately he was on his game that day and saw mister prankster coming. He told the coworkers to keep him busy and out the back door he went. Around the building he goes with the snake in tow. While prankster was busy he stuffed that snake up under the seat of the pranksters truck. Around the building he goes again and comes in the back door and starts chatting with the guys. Well Prankster gets ready to go and the guys follow him out the door to his truck. He crawled in, rolled down the window and starts the truck. The whole time telling them how lucky the were that they saw him before he was able to pull something. He shifted into reverse and started to back up and the snake rolled out from under the seat under his feet. As my uncle tells it this guy didn't even bother to open the door. Out the window he went with the truck still in reverse. They said that he never came back unannounced again.
Same coats would be left on hangers outside the lunch room. When we got done eating we would go put our coats on and see whose coat we could find. We would tear the corner off of ketchup, mustard and mayo packets and drop them into the coat pocket. What is the first thing you do when you find something in a pocket with you hand. Yep lots of dirt coats and hands.
Best one my uncle did. They had a guy who was sneaking into the shop while they were working. This guy was always pulling some prank. Well Uncle Dennis got up one morning and killed a rattlesnake on the way across the yard to his shop. It was about 5 or 6 foot long. He let it lay out behind the building and the guys went to work. Fortunately he was on his game that day and saw mister prankster coming. He told the coworkers to keep him busy and out the back door he went. Around the building he goes with the snake in tow. While prankster was busy he stuffed that snake up under the seat of the pranksters truck. Around the building he goes again and comes in the back door and starts chatting with the guys. Well Prankster gets ready to go and the guys follow him out the door to his truck. He crawled in, rolled down the window and starts the truck. The whole time telling them how lucky the were that they saw him before he was able to pull something. He shifted into reverse and started to back up and the snake rolled out from under the seat under his feet. As my uncle tells it this guy didn't even bother to open the door. Out the window he went with the truck still in reverse. They said that he never came back unannounced again.
toolmiser
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One year the little company I worked for was having a Christmas party, so we were all invited up to the office. Well we had some beers and someone went outside and "piddled" under the front of another guys car. He goes in and tells him he has a leak. We all watch as he goes out crawls under, sticks his finger in it and smells it and says it doesn't smell like antifreeze!
csargents1546
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When I was working as a cubical installer, had an idot for a ops manager, totally clueless. Had the customer (use to work with us) call the manager and ask for a "panel stretcher" Said manager asked another co worker where it was. "Does he need the hand or electric on?" We had the manager in a panic and was looking everywhere for about a week. Finally the president of the company had pitty on him and told him it was a prank.
Another time, we lowered the worksurface to about 13" off the ground. Put everything back just the way it was. Guy walks in and just shakes his head and walks off.
Came in to work to get my tickets for the day and low and behold in my in box is the steering wheel to my work truck. Go out to the truck and there are no seats in the cab.
Eventually we had a meeting that we had to stop with the pranks, someone got a little upset.
Another time, we lowered the worksurface to about 13" off the ground. Put everything back just the way it was. Guy walks in and just shakes his head and walks off.
Came in to work to get my tickets for the day and low and behold in my in box is the steering wheel to my work truck. Go out to the truck and there are no seats in the cab.
Eventually we had a meeting that we had to stop with the pranks, someone got a little upset.
Small brake fluid can (metal), drill out cap and braze in a spark plug. Start up cutting torch, adjust properly, snuff out flame and fill can with oxy/acetylene mixture. Quickly seal can. Open car hood, disconnect spark plug wire and connect same wire to spark plug in can, lay can on intake manifold and close hood. Stand back and watch when car's owner leaves after work!
Take a welding rod and insert through u-joint in driveline, then bend it so it won't fall out but is long enough to hit crossmember/bottom of car when driven.
A few more that I can think of!
Lane
Take a welding rod and insert through u-joint in driveline, then bend it so it won't fall out but is long enough to hit crossmember/bottom of car when driven.
A few more that I can think of!
Lane
OccupantRJ
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Hand lotion in work gloves.
OccupantRJ
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When I was in my 20's, there was an older guy about retirement age in my millwright crew. He was the grumpy sort, always grumbling about something, but was really a good guy. He got remarried and went on a cruise for a week as a honeymoon. We had ribbed him about whether he could handle a woman at his age, and he assured us he could. While he was gone, I picked the locks on his 20 inch portable toolboxes (4), and using the track torch, cut 1/2 inch steel plate to fit into the bottom of each, painted to match his boxes, and put all his tools back. When he returned, he lugged the boxes around the job for a week before he figured it out, bitching about how heavy those damn boxes were, and all the while the guys were ribbing him about how that woman had sapped all his strength in the bed. They about had him convinced that she had drained him. I can still see his face when he found those plates in the boxes. He cussed for days about it.
OccupantRJ
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On the construction job, we had some 5/16" welding rod. They guys would catch a new guy coming into the shop and set him up by having him see them attempting to bend a rod around their neck using only an index finger of each hand. What he didn't notice was they were doing it by placing it on the outside of their collars. When they would set him up, they would place the rod directly on his neck, which caused the crumbled flux to go down the back of his shirt, itching for the rest of the day.
rrangus
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Lemme see, I have born the brunt of so many, and returned the favors with interest.
Sent to the parts house for a quarter turn pipe wrench
Left hand pipe wrench
Charged condensers and left them beside the telephone, never fails to get someone
One of the factories here in town processes chicken. There is a dye used on condemed birds. Seems there was an employee getting married on the weekend. The cornered him after quitting time on Friday and dipped his privates in the dye. His bride to be did not have a sense of humor. She threatened to castrate everyone involved.
Opened can of sardines on the intake manifold
I managed second shift of a fleet shop. Seems there was this gentleman that worked first shift that had a very rigid bathroom routine. Before we left one night, we got an old pair of shoes, dug a dirty pair of paints out of the linen, placed them on the throne so that it looked like someone was sitting on it. We even added a newspaper for good measure. Next morning the appointed time came, the gengleman went into the restroom, found the stall locked. He left and came back a few minutes later, door still locked. He glanced under the stall and saw the shoes/pants/paper and left. Made a couple more trips, a little more urgency each time. Told the rest of the crew he did not know who was in there, but he was very unfriendly
Had 16 oz of wheel weights added to the right front tire one time.
Smoke bombs attached to the plug wires, 8 smoke bombs on one car makes a hell of a lot of smoke
Super glue coins to the counter in the parts room.
Charge condensers and place them back on the parts shelf.
Good friend ran a one man independent shop. Left one day and forgot to close the overhead door. Came back and his BIG Snap On box was empty. Panic time until he happened to look in the bed of the El Camino he was working on.
I could keep this up all night.
Sent to the parts house for a quarter turn pipe wrench
Left hand pipe wrench
Charged condensers and left them beside the telephone, never fails to get someone
One of the factories here in town processes chicken. There is a dye used on condemed birds. Seems there was an employee getting married on the weekend. The cornered him after quitting time on Friday and dipped his privates in the dye. His bride to be did not have a sense of humor. She threatened to castrate everyone involved.
Opened can of sardines on the intake manifold
I managed second shift of a fleet shop. Seems there was this gentleman that worked first shift that had a very rigid bathroom routine. Before we left one night, we got an old pair of shoes, dug a dirty pair of paints out of the linen, placed them on the throne so that it looked like someone was sitting on it. We even added a newspaper for good measure. Next morning the appointed time came, the gengleman went into the restroom, found the stall locked. He left and came back a few minutes later, door still locked. He glanced under the stall and saw the shoes/pants/paper and left. Made a couple more trips, a little more urgency each time. Told the rest of the crew he did not know who was in there, but he was very unfriendly
Had 16 oz of wheel weights added to the right front tire one time.
Smoke bombs attached to the plug wires, 8 smoke bombs on one car makes a hell of a lot of smoke
Super glue coins to the counter in the parts room.
Charge condensers and place them back on the parts shelf.
Good friend ran a one man independent shop. Left one day and forgot to close the overhead door. Came back and his BIG Snap On box was empty. Panic time until he happened to look in the bed of the El Camino he was working on.
I could keep this up all night.
All good stuff.
Guy kept leaving his shoes in the aisle in the locker room. PL Construction Adhesive them to his locker door. Guess what isn't in the aisle anymore.
Spiked a guys Ravioli dinner with cayenne pepper. He takes a bite and goes right for a big swig of his Gatorade. Unfortunatelly for him it was spiked with vinegar. 12 guys errupt in laughter at the dinner table.
Fill black garbage bag with water, put in top shelf of locker and close the door on it, then cut part of the bag sticking out with a razor blade. What a flood when the guy opened the locker. (works on microwaves as well)
Tray full of chocolate candies. Yummy, except that one was a bullion cube. Hysterical.
When making chicken cutlets. Make a special one. Instead of chicken, bread and fry up a sponge. Looks exactly like a regular chicken cutlet sandwhich.
Once we welded a guys locker shut.
If you have a guy who stands around a lot, wait for him to stand just outside the bay door. Hop on the roof with a bucket of water and wamo! I love that one. Sends a nice message.
Oh and who can forget the flour on top of the ceiling fan blades in the office. Although funny at first this one really sux cause the clean up is a nightmare.
This one drove guys at work nuts for months. Simply switch the handle on the refrigerator to the hinge side of the door.
Dudes I've seen a ton of these pranks done.
Remember. FIREWORKS EQUALS FUN!
Guy kept leaving his shoes in the aisle in the locker room. PL Construction Adhesive them to his locker door. Guess what isn't in the aisle anymore.
Spiked a guys Ravioli dinner with cayenne pepper. He takes a bite and goes right for a big swig of his Gatorade. Unfortunatelly for him it was spiked with vinegar. 12 guys errupt in laughter at the dinner table.
Fill black garbage bag with water, put in top shelf of locker and close the door on it, then cut part of the bag sticking out with a razor blade. What a flood when the guy opened the locker. (works on microwaves as well)
Tray full of chocolate candies. Yummy, except that one was a bullion cube. Hysterical.
When making chicken cutlets. Make a special one. Instead of chicken, bread and fry up a sponge. Looks exactly like a regular chicken cutlet sandwhich.
Once we welded a guys locker shut.
If you have a guy who stands around a lot, wait for him to stand just outside the bay door. Hop on the roof with a bucket of water and wamo! I love that one. Sends a nice message.
Oh and who can forget the flour on top of the ceiling fan blades in the office. Although funny at first this one really sux cause the clean up is a nightmare.
This one drove guys at work nuts for months. Simply switch the handle on the refrigerator to the hinge side of the door.
Dudes I've seen a ton of these pranks done.
Remember. FIREWORKS EQUALS FUN!
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OccupantRJ
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There was an ironworker shop foreman on the construction job who was an ***. He hated having to answer the telephone, especially at lunch. One of the helpers taped up the earpiece inside the phone with duct tape to muffle it. As it happened, the iron superintendant called the shop during lunch that day, and the foreman grudgingly got up to answer the phone. Not hearing anyone, he hung up. Super called back, soon as the guy sat back down. This happened 3 times. On the last call, the foreman blew a gasket and called whoever was on the phone all kinds of nasty names, then SLAMMED the phone down. A couple minutes later, a pickup slid to a stop outside, and an obviously infuriated Super stomped in and chewed the guy's *** out in front of about 30 men. It got really ugly. They ended up finding the tape in the phone, and I was the only one who had seen the helper do it. The helper BEGGED me not to tell on him, so I owned him for a while on the job. 
SpeedCoach
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I worked one summer at the same commercial HVAC company my dad has always worked for. I knew almost everyone at that shop from growing up......
one week i went to put my gloves on to load a truck with duct work, etc.....they were loaded up with a mastic-type of duct sealer that i spent about 30 minutes trying to clean off......
so finally I got that done, hopped in the truck to take the pieces to a job site.....grabbed my hard hat and threw it on when i got there to unload and get the pieces to the guys at the job......that's when the blue cloud of snap-line chalk engulfed my head.
I knew who did it.......and I gave him lip when I got back to the shop. Thats when my dad's oldest friend (who was the weld shop foreman) called me over. he handed me a caulk gun that had a heavy duty adhesive loaded in it....he said "did you see bradley's toolbox over there?" Bradley was the guy that got me.....he had a semi-portable tool box that he used to carry his tools around the duct shop....he had it sitting on a full sheet of sheet metal on the floor of the shop. I simply made sure that it was properly adhered to that sheet.
When I left that day he was using a torch free his tool box. Nobody ever messed with me again! And I loved every minute of working with those guys.
one week i went to put my gloves on to load a truck with duct work, etc.....they were loaded up with a mastic-type of duct sealer that i spent about 30 minutes trying to clean off......
so finally I got that done, hopped in the truck to take the pieces to a job site.....grabbed my hard hat and threw it on when i got there to unload and get the pieces to the guys at the job......that's when the blue cloud of snap-line chalk engulfed my head.
I knew who did it.......and I gave him lip when I got back to the shop. Thats when my dad's oldest friend (who was the weld shop foreman) called me over. he handed me a caulk gun that had a heavy duty adhesive loaded in it....he said "did you see bradley's toolbox over there?" Bradley was the guy that got me.....he had a semi-portable tool box that he used to carry his tools around the duct shop....he had it sitting on a full sheet of sheet metal on the floor of the shop. I simply made sure that it was properly adhered to that sheet.
When I left that day he was using a torch free his tool box. Nobody ever messed with me again! And I loved every minute of working with those guys.
skeletonizer
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Filled a zip lock sandwich bag with acetylene and dropped it down a pump pit where a welder was working. He about **** his pants when it went off.
wafrederick
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Here is another one doing with coffee.Pour a little bit of lemonade in the cup full of coffee the person is drinking.Person drinking the coffee thinks someone urinated in their coffee.I do this to my father's clean up guy Lee and this guy is jumpy.I take a long scredriver or extension bar and point in a sensable spot in his left leg,Lee gets jumpy and yells out ******** kids.I do it to him when I throw scrap metal in the garbage can and he hates that.I do it when he is there and hear this: I heard that you shithead.
I used to own my own service station. The classic nubie prank was always pulled when I taught them how I wanted oil changes done. Before the car came down from the lift I would tell them something like " all right, winter's coming, I want you to drain all that summer air out of all four tires and fill it up with cold fall air".
Worked every single time.
Worked every single time.
Ok, here's another one. If I knew they wouldn't get ticked, when a customer would bring their car in describing some weird noise, I would have them repeat said noise no less than a half dozen times before they realized I was pranking them. The women were usually the most funny.
When I was a tech at Firestone our manager had the nasty habit of sending customers back to us to talk about their car issues. Here I am on flat rate doing his job was my thinking and I would kindly try to illuminate that to his lightning quick brain..to no avail.
One day he sends this guy back to me while I got a car hooked up to our analyzer. This guy is droning on and on about a noise his car makes, only one time per day upon initial start up.
So I tell this guy "here's what you do..go up and tell my manager that you want the special tape recorder. What you do is take it home and slide it under the front of your car. When you start it in the morning, the recorder is noise activated and it will record your problem. Bring the tape back here to me and I'll insert it into this port right here on my analyzer. The analyzer will will spit the tape out right here and tell us what is wrong with your car."
I watch the customer go up and explain all this to my manager, he's shaking his head no and looking through the window at me.
Greatest thing..he never sent another customer back to talk to me ever again.
One day he sends this guy back to me while I got a car hooked up to our analyzer. This guy is droning on and on about a noise his car makes, only one time per day upon initial start up.
So I tell this guy "here's what you do..go up and tell my manager that you want the special tape recorder. What you do is take it home and slide it under the front of your car. When you start it in the morning, the recorder is noise activated and it will record your problem. Bring the tape back here to me and I'll insert it into this port right here on my analyzer. The analyzer will will spit the tape out right here and tell us what is wrong with your car."
I watch the customer go up and explain all this to my manager, he's shaking his head no and looking through the window at me.
Greatest thing..he never sent another customer back to talk to me ever again.
lsrx101
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Thanks for all of the good ones, guys. I've seen quite a few of them, but there are many that I wouldn't have thought up in a million years! 
Not really a shop prank, but...
We had just gotten a new Hunter "computerized" alignment machine installed in the shop, circa 1993. An unrelated employee, college educated and not very technical but thought he was Einstein, saw me setting up a car for an alignment. He wandered over and started nosing around asking questions.
I explained about hanging the heads and truing them, then connecting the data cables, etc. as I went along.
I saw that the alignment was well within spec so I had a little fun with him.
I walked over to the keyboard and showed him how to "completely align the vehicle" right from the keyboard. (basically toggling from English to Metric or changing the readout parameters). There's no need to even touch the vehicle at all!
I could even tailor the individual tire pressure right from the keyboard, because each tire had a small air hose hose (The head tether cables) connected to the machine.
I was pretty impressed myself, as I shoveled the BS higher and higher. I even tossed in some things that I couldn't do...yet, with that amazing Hunter Machine, but they were only a mere software update away!
All the while I was praising modern technology and he was nodding and praising right along with me, totally awe-struck and utterly clueless.
I never got to see his face when he realized he'd been had, but I can just imagine the scene the next time his car went into a shop for an alignment.
Not really a shop prank, but...
We had just gotten a new Hunter "computerized" alignment machine installed in the shop, circa 1993. An unrelated employee, college educated and not very technical but thought he was Einstein, saw me setting up a car for an alignment. He wandered over and started nosing around asking questions.
I explained about hanging the heads and truing them, then connecting the data cables, etc. as I went along.
I saw that the alignment was well within spec so I had a little fun with him.
I walked over to the keyboard and showed him how to "completely align the vehicle" right from the keyboard. (basically toggling from English to Metric or changing the readout parameters). There's no need to even touch the vehicle at all!
I could even tailor the individual tire pressure right from the keyboard, because each tire had a small air hose hose (The head tether cables) connected to the machine.
I was pretty impressed myself, as I shoveled the BS higher and higher. I even tossed in some things that I couldn't do...yet, with that amazing Hunter Machine, but they were only a mere software update away!
All the while I was praising modern technology and he was nodding and praising right along with me, totally awe-struck and utterly clueless.
I never got to see his face when he realized he'd been had, but I can just imagine the scene the next time his car went into a shop for an alignment.
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blackice
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Lotek
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I had nothing to do with this one...
A couple of techs in the shop were always giving the helper a hard time, all in good fun, he took it because they were teaching him a lot. One day the guys saw him go into the bathroom, they followed him in a few minutes later, not having seen him leave. They saw a pair of workboots that looked like his behind a stall door and proceded to light the floor in the stall on fire with brake cleaner. The new porter, who spoke almost no english burst from the stall with his pants around his ankles and ran screaming out into the shop. Took a while to calm him down...
A couple of techs in the shop were always giving the helper a hard time, all in good fun, he took it because they were teaching him a lot. One day the guys saw him go into the bathroom, they followed him in a few minutes later, not having seen him leave. They saw a pair of workboots that looked like his behind a stall door and proceded to light the floor in the stall on fire with brake cleaner. The new porter, who spoke almost no english burst from the stall with his pants around his ankles and ran screaming out into the shop. Took a while to calm him down...
blackice
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my favorite is to simply walk by a new apprentice or tire kid when they are balancing directional tires, and say " there directional, make sure you spin them the right way when you balance them, or they will be back with a shake". and go back to what I am doing. Its simple, but you get to watch him play with every button on that machine for the next 15 minutes or so, trying to make it spin backwards haha
A buddy of mine does drywall for a living. He usually gets veterin guys to egg the new kids on, about how weak they are, and wont be able to keep up. Fortunitly, most punk azz kids happen to suffer from "little dog syndrome", and automaticly bark back about how strong they are. This leads to a competition of who can hold a large bag of powdered drywall compound above there head the longest. Thats when my buddy walks up behind the new kid, and slices the bag open with his knife, covering them in powder.... works every time....
A buddy of mine does drywall for a living. He usually gets veterin guys to egg the new kids on, about how weak they are, and wont be able to keep up. Fortunitly, most punk azz kids happen to suffer from "little dog syndrome", and automaticly bark back about how strong they are. This leads to a competition of who can hold a large bag of powdered drywall compound above there head the longest. Thats when my buddy walks up behind the new kid, and slices the bag open with his knife, covering them in powder.... works every time....
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stroked93
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glued a guys coat sleeves shut at the bottom with RTV
sent the new guy to the parts store for a 3/8ths skyhook he came back with this bent up muffler hanger says "all they has was 1/2inch" jackass.
Same guy we used to make him take the torch cart out the north door of the shop every morning when he clocked in and bring around the lot to the south door. Reverse at closing. did it for months before the owner found out.
sent the new guy to the parts store for a 3/8ths skyhook he came back with this bent up muffler hanger says "all they has was 1/2inch" jackass.
Same guy we used to make him take the torch cart out the north door of the shop every morning when he clocked in and bring around the lot to the south door. Reverse at closing. did it for months before the owner found out.
ZRX61
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Apprentice at one place I worked wore steel toe boots with the steel on the outside.... Couple of the guys held him down one day & put an L on the right boot & an R on the left one with the mig..
The next week they held him down, pulled his legs either side of a pole & welded his boots together....duct taped his hands behind his back.... & then put a hacksaw just within his reach..
Yup, doofus boy got the tape off then set to with the hacksaw to get his boots apart.. didn't occur to him to take then off & use a grinder on the bench..
Another day we got 3 floor brushes, stuffed one up one sleeve & out the other, then clamped it in place with visegrips.. used the other two down his collar & out of each pant leg.. then clamped them in place with more visegrips so he ended up like a scarecrow...
...Then we carried him outside & put him on the traffic island in the middle of the road.. cops finally got us to move him after he'd been distracting traffic for a couple of hours..
Usual trick was to snag his belt with the electric hoist, lift him about 8ft or so in the air & then set the shop dogs on him (rottweiller & a rott/GSD mix). They couldn't *quite* reach him, but that didn't stop him screaming
The next week they held him down, pulled his legs either side of a pole & welded his boots together....duct taped his hands behind his back.... & then put a hacksaw just within his reach..
Yup, doofus boy got the tape off then set to with the hacksaw to get his boots apart.. didn't occur to him to take then off & use a grinder on the bench..
Another day we got 3 floor brushes, stuffed one up one sleeve & out the other, then clamped it in place with visegrips.. used the other two down his collar & out of each pant leg.. then clamped them in place with more visegrips so he ended up like a scarecrow...
...Then we carried him outside & put him on the traffic island in the middle of the road.. cops finally got us to move him after he'd been distracting traffic for a couple of hours..
Usual trick was to snag his belt with the electric hoist, lift him about 8ft or so in the air & then set the shop dogs on him (rottweiller & a rott/GSD mix). They couldn't *quite* reach him, but that didn't stop him screaming
D.J.
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Laughed so hard I cried on this last one!
ihredo4
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Take a small plastic snap lid bottle and put in a finger nail size pea of dry ice. Put the lid on so it seal but not snapped into place. The size of bottle and ice will vary the time but basically the dry ice heats up expands and blows the lid off the bottle. The explosion sounds something between a firecracker and a gun going off.
tcianci
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Not quite a shop trick but when I was in college, we were in the middle of a very boring lecture in one of the electronics labs. Well each lab bench was equipped with a high voltage power supply. We were at the back of the lab and someone had left some really big electrolytic capacitors (rectangular cans) on one of the benches. A buddy of mine hooked up the cap to the power supply, adjusted the current limit and proceded ro trickle charge the cap up to about 400 volts. Then we all ducked as he jammed it right ino the iron pipe footrest on the bench. It was an AMAZING bang and it knocked him on his *** too. The professor turned ghost white looked over at all of us and very quietly said "gentlemen, go to lunch". We all laughed our asses off for months thinking about that day till one day we found out that the guy keeled over and died of a heart attack in a hardware store over the weekend. We still wonder if our prank was part of why he bought the ranch.
lsrx101
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I worked in a small trucking company shop back in the early 80s. One "Foreman", 2 full time Mechanics and a part time oil change guy. The place was a total zoo, but we got the job done.
I was Mech #2. The part timer was the most mature and level headed employee of the bunch.
He was kind of quiet, didn't get roused up and smoked big, stinky Ology brand cigars.
The Foreman and Mech #1 would chase each other around the shop with cans of Ether and Bic lighters!
Mechanic #1 used to regale us with tales of his ****** exploits, ad nauseum. You would think he had 13" and had to chase women off with a stick.
One day, the part time guy challenged Mech #1 to a show and tell. Whip it out here on the parts counter and let's compare!
Mech #1 unzips and shows what he's packing. Not totally unimpressive, I'll admit.
The part time guy unzips, cigar firmly in place, and pulls out this unit about 16" long and 2" or better in girth and flops it on the counter.
Mech #1 gets a look on his face that is priceless to this day! He was, for once, speechless! He actually left the room!
The part timer then removed the rest of the ~20" *** toy from his pants, pulled the stogie from his mouth and said "Maybe he'll shut the f*** up now".
to Jerry, the part timer.
We all laughed until we couldn't see straight
I was Mech #2. The part timer was the most mature and level headed employee of the bunch.
He was kind of quiet, didn't get roused up and smoked big, stinky Ology brand cigars.The Foreman and Mech #1 would chase each other around the shop with cans of Ether and Bic lighters!
Mechanic #1 used to regale us with tales of his ****** exploits, ad nauseum. You would think he had 13" and had to chase women off with a stick.
One day, the part time guy challenged Mech #1 to a show and tell. Whip it out here on the parts counter and let's compare!
Mech #1 unzips and shows what he's packing. Not totally unimpressive, I'll admit.
The part time guy unzips, cigar firmly in place, and pulls out this unit about 16" long and 2" or better in girth and flops it on the counter.
Mech #1 gets a
look on his face that is priceless to this day! He was, for once, speechless! He actually left the room!The part timer then removed the rest of the ~20" *** toy from his pants, pulled the stogie from his mouth and said "Maybe he'll shut the f*** up now".
to Jerry, the part timer.We all laughed until we couldn't see straight
lsrx101
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Apprentice at one place I worked wore steel toe boots with the steel on the outside.... Couple of the guys held him down one day & put an L on the right boot & an R on the left one with the mig..
The next week they held him down, pulled his legs either side of a pole & welded his boots together....duct taped his hands behind his back.... & then put a hacksaw just within his reach..
Yup, doofus boy got the tape off then set to with the hacksaw to get his boots apart.. didn't occur to him to take then off & use a grinder on the bench..
Another day we got 3 floor brushes, stuffed one up one sleeve & out the other, then clamped it in place with visegrips.. used the other two down his collar & out of each pant leg.. then clamped them in place with more visegrips so he ended up like a scarecrow...
...Then we carried him outside & put him on the traffic island in the middle of the road.. cops finally got us to move him after he'd been distracting traffic for a couple of hours..
Usual trick was to snag his belt with the electric hoist, lift him about 8ft or so in the air & then set the shop dogs on him (rottweiller & a rott/GSD mix). They couldn't *quite* reach him, but that didn't stop him screaming
So basically you're saying that you are/were just an abusive *******?
That goes well beyond a"prank", dude.
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Right after I graduated high school, I got a job at a small plant that made misc. car parts. I had older brothers and a dad that work in a factory all his life so I knew all the newbie pranks that the guys would try to pull on me. Sure enough, the first day they sent me after some made up tool. I played along and set off to find one. As soon as I was out of sight, I headed for my car and went uptown to hang out with my buddies. I went back in time to clock out and go home. This went on every day for a week before someone saw me leave and figured out I wasn't looking for that special tool. I really didn't do much there so nobody even missed me.
V-10 Killer
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Where I work, we have to stay on site for lunch breaks, so they have a little kitchen/lunchroom in each building. One classic one around here would be to run black electrical tape around the rinse nozzle on the sink. Blended perfectly, you couldn't even tell it was there. Whenever someone turned on the faucet, they got a shower.
It worked especially well on one particular building teamleader, who got hosed 3 times in a single week. He quickly followed up by cutting the rinse hose right out of the sink and plugging it off.
Another time, someone was walking back to the control room with their fall protection still on, and went by a joker using a hoist. He quickly got latched by the back of his fall harness and taken for a little ride. Luckily, on his way up, he got the hoist operator by the hair and started to lift him up too! That ended that little ride
It worked especially well on one particular building teamleader, who got hosed 3 times in a single week. He quickly followed up by cutting the rinse hose right out of the sink and plugging it off.
Another time, someone was walking back to the control room with their fall protection still on, and went by a joker using a hoist. He quickly got latched by the back of his fall harness and taken for a little ride. Luckily, on his way up, he got the hoist operator by the hair and started to lift him up too! That ended that little ride
ZRX61
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He quit one day, his mom had convinced him coffee was carcinogenic & thats all we drank in the break room...
I've also been on the wrong end of the hoist/dog deal..
One day I was 16ft up a ladder painting the ceiling, had a 1gal pail of paint hanging near the top of the ladder.... boss put a shotgun slug through it so the floor ended up painted as well as me..
Place closed down after a gas explosion leveled it, 3 killed, 3 burned quite badly & the rest of us were merely deaf for a couple of weeks. This was about 30 years ago.