I also worked in a distribution center one summer (1980 I think) loading semi trailers. There was one particular driver named Jack that loaded out every Tuesday and delivered his load to Arizona from eastern Indiana. He was a real A-hole and treated us loaders like ****. It usually took a while to load the truck so he would walk uptown to shoot pool or drink beer while we loaded him. One Tuesday I brought in a pack of old bologna and some raw shrimp and waited for Jack to pull in. As soon as he left, two of the other guys got in his cab and removed some panels in the dash and stuffed the meat and shrimp up inside as far as they could, then disconnected the air conditioner. Jack came back and headed off for Arizona, It was really hot that week. When he came back the next week he had another truck and he was royally pissed, he somehow figured out who was responsible. (it may have been the uncontrollable laughter when he walked in) We later found out (as we were being fired) that nobody along the way could figure out what the smell was or where it was coming from so it rotted for nearly a week. When he got back home they had to tear the whole cab apart to find it. The job sucked, so getting fired wasn't a bad thing.
Shop pranks
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tonydanzah
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In my younger days I worked at a tire shop. Most of the other guys were laid back, except for Terrence. Terrence was just out there not bad, not good kind of spacey and in his own little world. Every once in a while he would **** you in. Terrence has early 90s eclipse gst decent tires, lots of tread just not great for a turbo car. The shop owner liked us to take people decent tires we removed and put them in the back to resell. A little shady but I think its the norm. Anyways he was never in the shop so if something decent came in and we wanted it we just took it.
Well one day I did tires on something, not much tread left but they were performance tires. I heard Terrence talking about how great those tires were and he planned on swapping them on his car. So after I took them off I rolled them in the back. The side walls on these tires were so flimsy from age i was able to make a pin hole in each sidewall with sharp awl.
The next day he had time to swap the tires. Seemed pretty excited to have almost worn out low pros. The next few days he keep complaining about the tires losing air. Some days later ended up swapping out the tires again, I wondered if he ever figured it out.
Well one day I did tires on something, not much tread left but they were performance tires. I heard Terrence talking about how great those tires were and he planned on swapping them on his car. So after I took them off I rolled them in the back. The side walls on these tires were so flimsy from age i was able to make a pin hole in each sidewall with sharp awl.
The next day he had time to swap the tires. Seemed pretty excited to have almost worn out low pros. The next few days he keep complaining about the tires losing air. Some days later ended up swapping out the tires again, I wondered if he ever figured it out.
Heavy Metal Doctor
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We had a guy working form me who would eat anything - he'd find half eaten bag of chips in a customers truck and start munching away on it. On day I spray painted styrofoam peanuts with some safety orange paint and they looked just like cheese puffs. So I put them in an empty cheese puff bag and set them on the dash of a truck. I then told him that truck needed something worked on and to bring it in the shop. Sure enough, he comes out of the truck complianing about how he's never tasted cheese puff that old and stale before.
There's a million others - like send the newbie to find a bucket of steam to heat up bearings, or to go find the lightbulb repair kit in the parts room.
Working on the high pressure water systems on the machinry we sell - I have a favorite for anyone who gets underfoot and tries to get involved with testing the machine. Especially for those customers who "know" it's problem "x" and insist on looking over your soulder while you verify what's going on....I disconnect and return line to the water tank and tell them to watch it for leaks. I act like I'm being nice and honest and tell them to not stand too close in case it leaks "a little" Then I pressurize the system to max. Once its up there I wait till they are just in the right spot and then I switch a valve and blast them with a 1" hose full of 60-80 GPM (like being hit with a fire hose).
There's a million others - like send the newbie to find a bucket of steam to heat up bearings, or to go find the lightbulb repair kit in the parts room.
Working on the high pressure water systems on the machinry we sell - I have a favorite for anyone who gets underfoot and tries to get involved with testing the machine. Especially for those customers who "know" it's problem "x" and insist on looking over your soulder while you verify what's going on....I disconnect and return line to the water tank and tell them to watch it for leaks. I act like I'm being nice and honest and tell them to not stand too close in case it leaks "a little" Then I pressurize the system to max. Once its up there I wait till they are just in the right spot and then I switch a valve and blast them with a 1" hose full of 60-80 GPM (like being hit with a fire hose).
Heavy Metal Doctor
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Another version : Long wire ties around the drive shaft with the tails taped down so that they don't touch anything 'till the shaft starts spinning fairly fast --- we do this to any annoying coworker -- they start driving away at the end of the day and about the time they turn the first corner they are going fast enough that the tape relaases - BANG!RATTATATATAT.......
mrbreezeet1
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Good for him.
That's all those A$$holes do where I work, and personalty I am SICK OF IT. Furthermore, I DON"T THINK IT'S FUNNY.
Those tools Are MINE, And "you " have no business touching them.
Go F'n find something to do!!
Tony
New kid at my buddy's shop pulls in a caddy with airbag suspension. He puts it on the lift and we start messing with him.... "hey did you pull the fuse on the airbag suspension" ... "you know its gonnna pump them way over the limit since the wieghts off the suspension" .... so the kids a little freaked out already but we convince him "all you gotta do since you fucked it up already is let it down real slow when your done so you dont blow them. the safety valve will bleed off the excess."
so he finishes what he was doing and starts to lower it down. I grab a few M80s from the top of the tool box and casually walk to the passenger side while hes on the drivers side bring the lift down real slow. The tires hit the ground and he keeps bringing it down. I light the M80 and drop it near the rear corner of the pass side. It pops and the kid litterally pisses himself hes so freaked out.
so he finishes what he was doing and starts to lower it down. I grab a few M80s from the top of the tool box and casually walk to the passenger side while hes on the drivers side bring the lift down real slow. The tires hit the ground and he keeps bringing it down. I light the M80 and drop it near the rear corner of the pass side. It pops and the kid litterally pisses himself hes so freaked out.
UncleJoe
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Had a real **** coworker years ago. Bought a used VW and bragged all the time about his wonderful gas mileage. This guy kept a spiral notebook in the glove box and recorded every fill up and calculated the fuel mileage.He transferred everything to a spread sheet and even created graphs and in general began every conversation with "Guess what my gas mileage is?" He was just waring us out. So one day one of the guys brings in a 5 gal gas can. We begin adding a couple of gallons every day. His mileage starts to get really good. He gets even more annoying. We keep adding gas for about a week sometimes we add as much as 4 gallons. Sure it cost us some coin but it was funny screwing with him. By now he is getting like 60 mpg. He is certain he has some magic car.
Now we start siphoning off the gas. A little each day. His beautiful milage charts start to make a nose dive. He is getting depressed. Over the course of the next month we get his "mileage" down to about 15 mpg.
One Monday morning he comes in and says he was so concerned about his mileage he removed the engine and tore it down looking for the "problem" He spent his entire weekend tearing down that VW engine and then finding nothing wrong he rebuilt the thing.
He said he had to sell the car because he just could not figure out what was going on. We finally let him off the hook and told him what had happened. He took it pretty well and never talked about that damn car again.
This prank is not original I got the idea from my father who claimed he did it on one of his co-workers. Recycled pranks .... good for the environment.
Now we start siphoning off the gas. A little each day. His beautiful milage charts start to make a nose dive. He is getting depressed. Over the course of the next month we get his "mileage" down to about 15 mpg.
One Monday morning he comes in and says he was so concerned about his mileage he removed the engine and tore it down looking for the "problem" He spent his entire weekend tearing down that VW engine and then finding nothing wrong he rebuilt the thing.
He said he had to sell the car because he just could not figure out what was going on. We finally let him off the hook and told him what had happened. He took it pretty well and never talked about that damn car again.
This prank is not original I got the idea from my father who claimed he did it on one of his co-workers. Recycled pranks .... good for the environment.
trainwreck
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ZRX61
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Well to be fair he was pretty much directly below it when he fired so he ended up with as much paint on him as I did.. I think he seriously underestimated just how much of a mess it would make... & he got to fix the hole in the roof.
StingRay
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I used to work with a guy I knew. He was a bit of a character but a pretty good guy. He liked pulling pranks on me like the exhaust whistle in the tail pipe and such. I ran the purchasing department there and had the shipper recievers working for me. I had instructed them to keep all of the foam packing peanuts that came in. One day one of them complains that that we have too much of this **** and we need to do something with it. I grinned and said go fill Greg's car with it. They filled his Supra to the tops of the doors. He was pissed. Apparently he had foam peanuts blowing out of the vents for months. He never fu**ed with me again.
I was pretty evil and the wrong guy to get on the bad side of when it came to pranks.
There was the time I wired a guys office with a full blown strobe lights and siren. All were hidden around the office. He came in and switched on the lights. He almost had a heart attack. Or the time with the same guy that we bought a matching piece of vinyl covered drywall and used it to eliminate the door to his office. He came in that morning and looked in the next office to see if there was a new door in through there or something. He found his office door tag on the closet door under the stairs.
Another guy we copied the key to his car and then moved moved the car every day at work from where he parked it. We'd move it 2 or 3 stalls closer or further from the door or even across the street. He thought he was losing his mind. It took him a couple weeks to figure it out.
Plenty more of em too.
I was pretty evil and the wrong guy to get on the bad side of when it came to pranks.
There was the time I wired a guys office with a full blown strobe lights and siren. All were hidden around the office. He came in and switched on the lights. He almost had a heart attack. Or the time with the same guy that we bought a matching piece of vinyl covered drywall and used it to eliminate the door to his office. He came in that morning and looked in the next office to see if there was a new door in through there or something. He found his office door tag on the closet door under the stairs.
Another guy we copied the key to his car and then moved moved the car every day at work from where he parked it. We'd move it 2 or 3 stalls closer or further from the door or even across the street. He thought he was losing his mind. It took him a couple weeks to figure it out.
Plenty more of em too.
ZRX61
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At one place I removed all the screws & fasteners holding together ones guys office furniture etc & replaced them with toothpicks & matchsticks to hold it all together. He absolutely HATED having the window blinds down by his desk so I also took his phone & passed the cord through the bottom of the blind...
He came in & the first thing he said was "Who keeps putting this effing blind down?? as he pulled the cord & sent his phone smashing into the ceiling. Then he took off his hat & hung it on a hook which fell to the floor, then his coat on a coat hook.. which fell to the floor.
Then he sat down & went to open his desk drawer.. the handle came off in his hand & the momentum caused his seat to pivot back (I'd removed the front 2 screws holding the chair to the base) & the legs on one end to fall off his desk which sent everthing sliding to the floor.
He picked himself of the floor & he was PISSED, as he ranted about everything he slamed the office door which promptly fell off the hinges...
The office was in the docks & was used to book cargo in so while all this was going down there was a line of about a dozen truck drivers watching all this happen with their mouths hanging open. When the door fell off the hinges as a finale the whole place erupted into hysterics.
Oddly enough I got fired from that job... but not for that.
My best practical jokes were when I had a pyro licence... I'd probably go to jail these days for the same pranks tho..
He came in & the first thing he said was "Who keeps putting this effing blind down?? as he pulled the cord & sent his phone smashing into the ceiling. Then he took off his hat & hung it on a hook which fell to the floor, then his coat on a coat hook.. which fell to the floor.
Then he sat down & went to open his desk drawer.. the handle came off in his hand & the momentum caused his seat to pivot back (I'd removed the front 2 screws holding the chair to the base) & the legs on one end to fall off his desk which sent everthing sliding to the floor.
He picked himself of the floor & he was PISSED, as he ranted about everything he slamed the office door which promptly fell off the hinges...
The office was in the docks & was used to book cargo in so while all this was going down there was a line of about a dozen truck drivers watching all this happen with their mouths hanging open. When the door fell off the hinges as a finale the whole place erupted into hysterics.
Oddly enough I got fired from that job... but not for that.
My best practical jokes were when I had a pyro licence... I'd probably go to jail these days for the same pranks tho..
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UncleJoe
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I once worked with a real jerk. No one liked him. He worked in a cubicle that was in a high traffic area of the office so a lot of people had to walk by his desk every day. I went in and changed his background screen to a real explicit Gay **** photo I found on the internet. I then went to group policy and made it so only the administrator could change the background screen then I changed the admin password on his pc. There were only about 30 of us that knew how to make these changes and he was not one of them.
When he asked all the techs to fix it we told him that week could get to in in a week or so. And every tech in the place told him he should not be viewing this stuff at work and of course he said he wasn't and everyone smirked "sure we believe you".
When he asked all the techs to fix it we told him that week could get to in in a week or so. And every tech in the place told him he should not be viewing this stuff at work and of course he said he wasn't and everyone smirked "sure we believe you".
As an apprentice machinist, I was sent to go get the brass magnet.
Also told to sharpen a left handed drill bit on a right handed drill bit sharpener.
Packets of ketchup, mustard, mayo, relish under the hold-downs on a metal shear. Messy.
Also told to sharpen a left handed drill bit on a right handed drill bit sharpener.
Packets of ketchup, mustard, mayo, relish under the hold-downs on a metal shear. Messy.
Auzivision
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I’ll admit I had a good one pulled on me when I was a kid. Hanging out in one of the older kids dad’s garage, the kind with half built engines and all, this guy asked if I’d help him with his go cart.
My job was to hold the spark plug near the hole but not let it touch the engine and look for spark. My other job was to hold the frame steady so the cart wouldn’t move. His job was to pull the rope.
Needless to say, that was a shocking experience!
My job was to hold the spark plug near the hole but not let it touch the engine and look for spark. My other job was to hold the frame steady so the cart wouldn’t move. His job was to pull the rope.
Needless to say, that was a shocking experience!
20V'er
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Not much of a shop prank, but still fun and mostly harmless.
Couple jobs ago I worked for a company that had low voltage cablers on staff. One of the cablers buys his first new car and raves about it. He wasn't the brighest bulb, but was a nice kid none the less. Every morning he would walk in toss his keys on his desk, grab a work van and head out for the day in a van. Every day for about two weeks myself or one other guy would grab the keys walk out and reprogram the radio buttons. We did this for two weeks and everyday they were set back to the way he wanted them. The kid never said a word, we finally got bored and gave up. I've always wondered what the repair ticket looked like at the dealer.
Couple jobs ago I worked for a company that had low voltage cablers on staff. One of the cablers buys his first new car and raves about it. He wasn't the brighest bulb, but was a nice kid none the less. Every morning he would walk in toss his keys on his desk, grab a work van and head out for the day in a van. Every day for about two weeks myself or one other guy would grab the keys walk out and reprogram the radio buttons. We did this for two weeks and everyday they were set back to the way he wanted them. The kid never said a word, we finally got bored and gave up. I've always wondered what the repair ticket looked like at the dealer.
bigbubba
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A few years ago a friend of mine ran a big truck shop,His helper was getting married that weekend so friday about noon we walk up to him with a handtruck and 2 rolls of duck tape.We tell him he has 2 options he can take it like a man or he can run and it will be worse! He stands there stiff as a board as i run the lip of the handtruck under his feet and we tape him head to toe to the truck,Then we put a sign on him that said"I am stupid I'm getting married saturday" and wheeled him out by the busy road and left him.His fiance came to get him at 5:30 and boy was she pissed! Told us we were not allowed at the wedding and all.She finally decided we could go to the wedding.
I heard of one from a guy I work with now. He said there was a helper that used to come in to work about 30 mins or an hour late every day. The boss started to mess with him. he gave him a 2 cans of spray paint and told him to shake them up for him until he couldn't hear the ball rattling in the can any more. that would ensure the paint is good and mixed up. he walked around all day with a can of paint in each hand shaking them up.
frank_c
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girl i worked with would pour her morning cup of coffee, leave it on the counter, and go to the bathroom, retrieving the cup on her way back. i put salt in the cup while she was in the bathroom. after maybe the third day she takes a swig, makes a face, and says "do i keep putting salt instead of sugar in this cup?"
ZRX61
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Here's a college one, not really a prank, just a guy making a fool of hismelf..
I was in an autobody class of 24 students, one the guys was an older union member. Instructor made everyone clock in & out like they were at work & it counted towards the final grade. Class was 4 mornings a week for 16 weeks...
Every day the union guy would go stand by the clock 15 minutes before class got out. Thats an hour a week for 16 weeks... class was 16 hours a week... At the end of the 16 week semester he'd spent the equivelent to an entire week of class stood in front of that damn clock..... ******** ***** couldn't work out why he was a week behind at the end of the semester... Then he came back for a second semester & did the same damn thing...
I was in an autobody class of 24 students, one the guys was an older union member. Instructor made everyone clock in & out like they were at work & it counted towards the final grade. Class was 4 mornings a week for 16 weeks...
Every day the union guy would go stand by the clock 15 minutes before class got out. Thats an hour a week for 16 weeks... class was 16 hours a week... At the end of the 16 week semester he'd spent the equivelent to an entire week of class stood in front of that damn clock..... ******** ***** couldn't work out why he was a week behind at the end of the semester... Then he came back for a second semester & did the same damn thing...
Iroc-Z
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Pulled one the other day.
Tech's Audi was in the shop because he just washed it. He then went and test drove a customer car. I grabbed our shop audi key and swapped it with his that was in the ignition and locked the car. He went to pull his car out so he could go home and couldn't get in. Looked saw the key in the ignition and slowly walked over to get his lock out tools. Waited till he got to the car with them then unlocked it. Made for a good laugh.
Anther prank I did on him was pounded a bunch of wheel weights on his wheels in the winter. Drove all the way home with the car having a bad shake.
Tech's Audi was in the shop because he just washed it. He then went and test drove a customer car. I grabbed our shop audi key and swapped it with his that was in the ignition and locked the car. He went to pull his car out so he could go home and couldn't get in. Looked saw the key in the ignition and slowly walked over to get his lock out tools. Waited till he got to the car with them then unlocked it. Made for a good laugh.
Anther prank I did on him was pounded a bunch of wheel weights on his wheels in the winter. Drove all the way home with the car having a bad shake.
Falcon67
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Not a shop prank, but a fun one I remembered: back when, our scout troupe met at a church. We had a big area meeting one night with several scout groups. One of the head guys drove an MG. Using a distraction, a group latched on to this guys car and carried it into the back of the church and hid it behind the stage curtains. Took him a while to find it - I remember there was no panic, too many people laughing their *** off so he figured out pretty quick some fraternal BS was afoot.
jwh
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When I was working as an Office Equipment Tech we had a guy that had to of had the world's worst tools - all garbage, mismatched, ground up screw driver tips, etc. etc.
Anyway he stopped for coffee one morning between the shop and his first call. While he's talking and drinking his coffee with one of the guys another guy takes all the tools out of his tool kit. There weren't many so he didn't notice the weight difference.
He gets to his first call, opens his tool kit, and it's EMPTY!
Comes back to the shop madder than a wet cat. On his bench was a paper bag with his tools, a dollar bill, and a note which said: "Here's your tools, and a donation to help you get some decent ones."
Anyway he stopped for coffee one morning between the shop and his first call. While he's talking and drinking his coffee with one of the guys another guy takes all the tools out of his tool kit. There weren't many so he didn't notice the weight difference.
He gets to his first call, opens his tool kit, and it's EMPTY!
Comes back to the shop madder than a wet cat. On his bench was a paper bag with his tools, a dollar bill, and a note which said: "Here's your tools, and a donation to help you get some decent ones."
jwh
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There was this boss where I used to work who was a real jack ***. He had this thing about people being in his office when he wasn't there, so needless to say it was always locked.
Which didn't keep someone from climbing up, poping out a drop ceiling panel or two, and getting into his office.
Upon which his chair was removed and replaced with a toilet.
He gets into work, goes into his office, sees the toilet and and tries to remove it. Which was anchored to the floor.
Boss went ballistic. He got reassigned shortly thereafter.
Which didn't keep someone from climbing up, poping out a drop ceiling panel or two, and getting into his office.
Upon which his chair was removed and replaced with a toilet.
He gets into work, goes into his office, sees the toilet and and tries to remove it. Which was anchored to the floor.
Boss went ballistic. He got reassigned shortly thereafter.
7echo
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Some 'guys i know' have done a few good ones.
Boss in a machine shop does all the ordering, goes on vacation and says to ask the secretary to order what the shop needs. One of the guys tells her to call the supply house and to tell them she needs 13" of black phallus.
The one about adding gas happened at the tech school-one of the instructors bought an old panel truck, was going to convert it to a camper or something. The mpg was way up there, to the point where the owner was telling the guys that the truck must have one of those special 100mpg carbs that the car makers developed but the oil companies bought out the patent and shelved it.
When Skylab was falling the crew at the warehouse took a chunk of slag and set it on the metal roof. Everyone was watching the TV reports all day about when and where it would fall. Late in the afternoon someone climbed up and tossed it into the bed of one of the supervisors truck. Made a loud noise and all the guys in on it where like 'Hey, what was that!' They ran outside and one of them 'discovered' the chunk of metal. Of course, he touched it and 'WHOA, this thing is on fire!' Truck owner falls for it right away and thinks it is part of the satellite. For all we know, he might still have that piece of steel on display somewhere.
Boss in a machine shop does all the ordering, goes on vacation and says to ask the secretary to order what the shop needs. One of the guys tells her to call the supply house and to tell them she needs 13" of black phallus.
The one about adding gas happened at the tech school-one of the instructors bought an old panel truck, was going to convert it to a camper or something. The mpg was way up there, to the point where the owner was telling the guys that the truck must have one of those special 100mpg carbs that the car makers developed but the oil companies bought out the patent and shelved it.
When Skylab was falling the crew at the warehouse took a chunk of slag and set it on the metal roof. Everyone was watching the TV reports all day about when and where it would fall. Late in the afternoon someone climbed up and tossed it into the bed of one of the supervisors truck. Made a loud noise and all the guys in on it where like 'Hey, what was that!' They ran outside and one of them 'discovered' the chunk of metal. Of course, he touched it and 'WHOA, this thing is on fire!' Truck owner falls for it right away and thinks it is part of the satellite. For all we know, he might still have that piece of steel on display somewhere.
7echo
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Oh, I remember another one - put the road kill snake in the mail box.
We always get the recruits to get us some cam-net patches.
I once tied an old muffler to a friend's truck in the parking lot. Turns out he notice it right away. He went and attached it to another buddys truck. Couple of weeks later he tells us he left late that night. He turned the radio loud and drove off... He got pulled over by the cops... oups!
I once tied an old muffler to a friend's truck in the parking lot. Turns out he notice it right away. He went and attached it to another buddys truck. Couple of weeks later he tells us he left late that night. He turned the radio loud and drove off... He got pulled over by the cops... oups!
ZRX61
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When I was in the AF & we did practice cargo drops out at Edwards AFB the guys who picked everything up would roll live rattlesnakes into the chutes before stuffing it all in the bag. Back at base they'd be unpacked in the chute tower to be packed correctly & we'd end up with pissed rattlers that had been in the bag for a day or 2.. All around the wall in the chute tower was the most lethal collection of steel pipes, baseball bats, shovels & 2x4's etc to take care of the *gifts*.
The idea was to get the snake into the middle of the chute out at Edwards so when it was hoisted up the tower back at base to straighten it all out the rattlers would suddenly fall onto the middle of the floor
First time I discovered it I was in the chute tower, saw the assorted weaponry & said "Are we expecting trouble?"
Now that right there is funny!
Having someone try to cut tempered glass is a good one too!
Mike in Ohio
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Used to drive for a lumber yard there were 5 or 6 of us. One friday at quitting time Carl manages to get Rick to back his truck into the garage first, then backs his truck in right in front of Ricks. Carl then greases the door handle, steering wheel, and shifter, and I don't know what else on his own truck. He was on vacation the next week and as Ricks truck was the only one blocked he knew who would get in it. I don't know if Rick ever figured out who was trying to "get" Carl and got him instead!
Carl had an old Lincoln town car ( old and beat, not classic) that his son drove. He sold it to our boss.As it happened this was about the time of the year for our yearly raises. Due to slow buisiness we did not get raises that year. I walked into the drivers room one afternoon in time to hear Carl explaining to one of the other guys that we didn't get raises because the supervisers got huge bonuses with which ours bought this Lincoln. It was not true but this guy got so mad about it that he found another job and quit about 2 weeks later. This was at least 15 years ago and the guy still believes the story of the bonuses was true.
We had another guy who did the work boots and pants trick in the rest room, but he did it in the upper office LADIES ROOM!!!
Carl had an old Lincoln town car ( old and beat, not classic) that his son drove. He sold it to our boss.As it happened this was about the time of the year for our yearly raises. Due to slow buisiness we did not get raises that year. I walked into the drivers room one afternoon in time to hear Carl explaining to one of the other guys that we didn't get raises because the supervisers got huge bonuses with which ours bought this Lincoln. It was not true but this guy got so mad about it that he found another job and quit about 2 weeks later. This was at least 15 years ago and the guy still believes the story of the bonuses was true.
We had another guy who did the work boots and pants trick in the rest room, but he did it in the upper office LADIES ROOM!!!
Mike in Ohio
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When I was in high school I worked a summer with the school maintenance dept. Filling potholes patching roofs etc. The guy who ran the bus garage was scared of snakes. One of the bus mechanics coiled a rubber snake under the cover of his typewriter (remember typewriters?). He took some fishing line and ran it in a roundabout way to his chair, so when he pulled the chair out from under his desk the snake came out fom under his typewriter cover. Have you ever seen a 50 year old man standing in the middle of a parking lot screaming like a little girl?
Scout Driver
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Guy at a previous job was obsessed with checking the raingauge at his home and at work anytime it would rain. He only lived about 6 blocks from work and was checking for variation in the rainfall between locations. Anyhow, he never observed much difference at all. One of the guys decided to make it interesting and would get to work a little early if it rained. If it rained more than an inch, the raingauge at work would get some rain dumped out. If it rained less than an inch, water would be added. Our "rainman" was amazed at the drastic new differences in rainfall and never caught on.
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Man, there are some great ones here!
There's a very annoying know-it-all guy at work here that just won't shut up. He's the kind of guy that if anyone makes a mistake, he'll throw it in your face for months, but can't take ANY critisism. The best part is he's extremely dense. He was giving me **** about my toolbox not being exactly in the middle of the lines on the floor of the shop (the boss is **** and our boxes have to be all lined up in a row in slots). I looked over at my toolbox about 30ft. away and off-handedly told him to chill out as it's only 1/8" off of center. He says ******** and actually goes and measures it. I was just guessing , but oddly I was right on. The idiot opens himself up and asks how I did that. I told him that when I was 18 and working with my dad inspecting pipe lines for municipalities here in Wisconsin, the state made me take a bunch of tests to get certified (complete ********). I told him because I had to look down in manholes at pipeline, the state insisted that I accurately be able to judge the size of things at a distance of 50ft. I went on the tell him it was really difficult when you had to look down and judge sizes, and that I probably still had the certificate somewhere at home (again complete ****). The idiot pointed at things around the shop and asked how big they were. Because they were common things, we BOTH knew how big they were. He wasn't completely convinced so I told him to look it up on-line. He went to Wisconsins weights and measures web site ( I thought I'd be busted now ) and there was a "certification" page ( that was for something completely different ) that was just vague enough that he actually believed me. I over heard him tell someone how easy it was to get "state certified" and he was going to do it because that would make him probably the most qualified person in the shop. *******!
There's a very annoying know-it-all guy at work here that just won't shut up. He's the kind of guy that if anyone makes a mistake, he'll throw it in your face for months, but can't take ANY critisism. The best part is he's extremely dense. He was giving me **** about my toolbox not being exactly in the middle of the lines on the floor of the shop (the boss is **** and our boxes have to be all lined up in a row in slots). I looked over at my toolbox about 30ft. away and off-handedly told him to chill out as it's only 1/8" off of center. He says ******** and actually goes and measures it. I was just guessing , but oddly I was right on. The idiot opens himself up and asks how I did that. I told him that when I was 18 and working with my dad inspecting pipe lines for municipalities here in Wisconsin, the state made me take a bunch of tests to get certified (complete ********). I told him because I had to look down in manholes at pipeline, the state insisted that I accurately be able to judge the size of things at a distance of 50ft. I went on the tell him it was really difficult when you had to look down and judge sizes, and that I probably still had the certificate somewhere at home (again complete ****). The idiot pointed at things around the shop and asked how big they were. Because they were common things, we BOTH knew how big they were. He wasn't completely convinced so I told him to look it up on-line. He went to Wisconsins weights and measures web site ( I thought I'd be busted now ) and there was a "certification" page ( that was for something completely different ) that was just vague enough that he actually believed me. I over heard him tell someone how easy it was to get "state certified" and he was going to do it because that would make him probably the most qualified person in the shop. *******!
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ZRX61
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Kinda like when you tell someone what size a nut or bolt is from 20-30ft away. I've done that a few times.
seagravedriver
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Best I can do is a fire station prank. We had a good crew. A few guys wore coveralls at night. One of the medics sewed white lace onto the pant-legs, fixing it so it folded up, and would fold down when he put them on. Late at night, he did not notice for a long time.
Another crew got grouchy about their food locker begin messed with. The more they complained, the more it got messed with. They put a combination lock on it. A little Google work got it opened, and the combination changed and re-locked. That really threw them.
Same bunch put a keyed lock on their food locker. We opened it, put some of the tortilla chips in a fake rats mouth. Tied a string to the rat, so when they pulled open the door it was pretty much guaranteed to land on their face. It was above face level, as they were placed above the refrigerators.
Grape Kool Aid in gloves.
Grape Kool Aid in shower heads. (They usually find that one though.)
Another crew got grouchy about their food locker begin messed with. The more they complained, the more it got messed with. They put a combination lock on it. A little Google work got it opened, and the combination changed and re-locked. That really threw them.
Same bunch put a keyed lock on their food locker. We opened it, put some of the tortilla chips in a fake rats mouth. Tied a string to the rat, so when they pulled open the door it was pretty much guaranteed to land on their face. It was above face level, as they were placed above the refrigerators.
Grape Kool Aid in gloves.
Grape Kool Aid in shower heads. (They usually find that one though.)
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Del Swanson
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I used to work for a very small HVAC company with only three trucks. Every morning when I left the shop I had to check my truck. One of the other guys had a sign business on the side and would, every once and a while, slap a vinyl rainbow sticker on the back of my truck. He couldn't get me at the shop after a while so he would find out where I was working, drive by, plaster my truck, and sneek off. To get him back, I sent away for a gay magazine with his name on the subscription and had it mailed to the shop every month. I didn't have to worry about the stickers anymore.
dirttracker18
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Another dad one,
Back in the day he would get a Coke in the glass bottle at his break. He was the service manager so it would sit on the front desk as he drank it. As often as possible this guy wold walk by, grab dads Coke and slam it back and laugh. ha ha very funny. So one early morning dad grabs an empty Coke bottle and fills it with oil (looks a lot like coke) and leaves it on his desk. They guy walks past grabs it and slams it.
Never took his coke again after that.
Back in the day he would get a Coke in the glass bottle at his break. He was the service manager so it would sit on the front desk as he drank it. As often as possible this guy wold walk by, grab dads Coke and slam it back and laugh. ha ha very funny. So one early morning dad grabs an empty Coke bottle and fills it with oil (looks a lot like coke) and leaves it on his desk. They guy walks past grabs it and slams it.
Never took his coke again after that.
dirttracker18
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The fish under the seat reminds of something.
I worked for the city while in university and the park I was at had a zoo. Once in a while I would grab a little pile of bear sh!# and put it in the front drivers corner of the box. That smell will follow you around for days. Everytime you get near the truck it stinks.
I worked for the city while in university and the park I was at had a zoo. Once in a while I would grab a little pile of bear sh!# and put it in the front drivers corner of the box. That smell will follow you around for days. Everytime you get near the truck it stinks.
anodyne33
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I worked at a recording studio for a few years. The jag-off owner was a fisherman and put a trout under another engineer's car seat during the summer. Totally ruined the interior of the vehicle by the time he found it.
The engineer knew the owner couldn't stop chewing on pens and told everybody else at the studio to keep en eye out for pens and pencils that had UMB written on them discreetly. He spent the better part of a week systematically walking around all day with said pens and pencils... stuffed in his *** crack.
A few weeks later after watching all the staff chuckle at him for no reason the engineer finally let the owner in on what was going on whilst he was chewing on a UMB pen. "Hey Patrick, have you noticed UMB on any pens recently? Yeah, that means it was up my bum."
Yeah, that put an end to the pranks for a while at the studio.
The engineer knew the owner couldn't stop chewing on pens and told everybody else at the studio to keep en eye out for pens and pencils that had UMB written on them discreetly. He spent the better part of a week systematically walking around all day with said pens and pencils... stuffed in his *** crack.
A few weeks later after watching all the staff chuckle at him for no reason the engineer finally let the owner in on what was going on whilst he was chewing on a UMB pen. "Hey Patrick, have you noticed UMB on any pens recently? Yeah, that means it was up my bum."
Yeah, that put an end to the pranks for a while at the studio.