Shop pranks

[eborcim]

On a road gang crew there was one guy that came to work hung over-one too many times. There were industrial cloth/fiber shop towels on a roll available. Well this joker passed out in the morning heat and the crew wrapped him with a couple rolls of the towels and soaked them with water. The crew parked him under a shade tree and by the time he came to he was wrapped so tight he couldn't move. When the crew returned in the early evening the towels had dried leaving him like a mummy. Needless to say he did not work anymore and wasn't missed.

 

[NUTTSGT]

When I worked at the gas station in HS, we super glued a quarter to the sidewalk in front of the door. We'd laugh as everybody bent down to pick it up.

We drained the Mt Dew out of the bosses can from the bottom. Then filled it up with water and sealed the holes shut. It was stuck back in the fridge, he popped it open the next day after working in the hot garage bay.

 

[Eagle Point]

I don't know if everyone picked on their woodshop teacher back in junior high days but if you went to Borel Junior high in San Mateo, Ca you know what I am talking about. Good old Mr Hessel. Every class messed with this guy. Two of my favorites were when "someone" nailed his dress shoes to the floor that he kept under his desk while in class and the other classic was coating his chair with varnish just before he sat in it. Oh yeah, one more. One of our projects was to make a cutting board so on the day of grading one of the students took the teachers sample finished board off of the wall and put it on his bench to be graded. Mr Hessel came around, never knew the difference and gave him an A. With this site going world wide there has to be others that went to Borel in San Mateo that had Hessel that could chime in. This old man was really a piece of work. When he was mad at you he called you a "Knothead" or "20%er".............

 

[bad daddy]

When the Blackberry first came out with Google Maps, my boss had one, and we just had cell phones. We were down in Ft. Lauderdale, and I commented that there was a website that used Google Maps, to locate people via their cell phone address... "www.phonetrace.org" he tries, can't get it to work... a few weeks later, he's at one of our suppliers, they're looking for their boss, can't find him, and he says, "Try www.phonetrace.org"... so they do, and the website shows its acquiring sattelites, etc. and starts doing the tracing, only to show some gay ****...

The next week at work, he tells me, what happened...he was so embarassed!

I just tried it now, and it's different, it's a bikini carwash!

 

[ukvauxtech]

Excellent thread. My favourite is when a tech has finished an engine rebuild and I position myself next to his ramp post just chatting away but with a lump hammer hidden by my side. Wait for the first big rev to clear it's throat and smash the ramp leg with the hammer. The massive bang has led to some pretty upset people.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I told the newbie where i used to work to call up VW and order a "long weight" for a certain car. I went in the office periodically over about an hour and when i asked him if they'd got it he'd tell me "They keep putting me on hold!"

I don't think he ever figured it out, just gave up. I got a good laugh out of it.