Shop practical jokes

[GFritsch]

When I worked construction way back in the day, I had a kid searching the trucks for a "2x10 strecher" for about 15 minutes.

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We get a good laugh sending the green apprentice to the storage bin for a box of "toe nails", or a box of ID10t's. When he comes back and can't find the ID10t's we have him write it down and start asking everyone on the job if they have seen it, showing in his own writing the word IDIOT---Just never gets old :-laf



Of course we only pick on the guys with a good sense of humor, and those that we feel are good guys that we like. Seems like today you can get into trouble having a little fun on the job. Construction sure has changed allot in the last few years. Nowadays people aren't willing to go through the rites of passage without getting their lawyers involved. --buts that's another topic.



Greg

 

[JApol]

Another good one is filling out the Papa Uniform fifty-five Yankey form so you can get the ID10T card.

 

[JasonCzerak]

We get a good laugh sending the green apprentice to the storage bin for a box of "toe nails", or a box of ID10t's. When he comes back and can't find the ID10t's we have him write it down and start asking everyone on the job if they have seen it, showing in his own writing the word IDIOT---Just never gets old :-laf



Of course we only pick on the guys with a good sense of humor, and those that we feel are good guys that we like. Seems like today you can get into trouble having a little fun on the job. Construction sure has changed allot in the last few years. Nowadays people aren't willing to go through the rites of passage without getting their lawyers involved. --buts that's another topic.



Greg

HA! I forgot about the 'toe nails'. classic. I used the ID10T deal here at work. Make little flags with a piece of paper and tape it to a pen and connect it to the cube.



JApol, that's a new one to me.

 

[Crowhurst]

We usually ask the new guy to make a phone call for us as we're busy on a job. We give him the number to dial, and tell him to ask to speak to Mister C. Lion. It is, of course, the phone number of the aquatic section of the local zoo. It never fails. The local zoo is so used to it now, that they play along with the joke. They sometimes tell the newbie that the gentleman is busy lunching on about 100 pounds of live fish, and would he call back later.

Nick.

 

[sodomoto]

I painted airplanes for years and had a great time with the guys. Once I plugged a guys resperaitor with masking tape, the look on his face as he found he couldn't breathe was priceless.

Also, a good coat of vaseline on someones windshield wipers on a rainy day can be fun.

My favorite was to rub a little oil from skin or hair on one fellows stripes he was to paint while he was at lunch, then watch him struggle to cover the seperation with paint. He always complained about about oil in the same place on every airplane. Manufacturing, research and development even started a study to find a cure for this mystery!

 

[TJany]

take a torch and get that perfect cutting tip, tap it out, leave the gas running and fill a balloon with it, then when one of your co workers lights a cigarette, start batting at it him. Keep batting it at him til he gets ticked and nails it with the cigarette.

 

[CLiberty]

this one is rather crude or gross. I'll try to keep it clean.

used to work in a machine shop. this one old fart had a physical problem with his "boys" elephantitus or something like that. well he could with his pants still pulled up and buttoned take his boys out over his waistband and let them hang out

he would then walk up to an unsuspecting sole and lift his shirt up to expose his "boys" hanging over his waistband.

you should have seen the looks of people when they would look down and see those grapefruits hanging there. :--)

I used to work with a guy who did that, I WAS funny seeing an ussupecting person see "that" for the first time. The guy called it his "growth"... uuuggghh!

 

[CSnyder]

Right out of highschool I worked at Featherlite trailer manufacturing as a line welder. We always had the idiot that thought he always had the better story or could do something better than anyone else or just flat out thought his crap didn't stink. Our cure for these guys was to back fill our air blowers with the 3' nozzles with blue chalk line powder and when they hit the can we would stick it under the door and hit the air. They would be in the can for hours trying to remove it to save embarrassment and still come out looking like a smurf. Most of them would get fired for wasting so much time in the can or quit from the embarrassment, but each line was a pretty tight knit of guys helping each other out including the supervisors and if they seen a smurf they knew he wasn't liked and would find reasons to fire them. At the same place when someone gave notice to quit for whatever reason we would have them moved to interior gate welder so when they were inside hanging their last gate we would padlock the trailer doors shut and the supervisor would have the fork truck pull it out to the staging yard and leave them inside it for a bit... this even happened to a line supervisor who was promoted to plant manager after word spread he was leaving us... he took it easy and joked about it later.

 

[Cummins Pilot]

One guy couldn't understand why the local napa guy on the phone got mad when our new pars guy called and asked for a case of "#6 elbow grease".



We did this once. Take 2 cans of foam (not gel) shaving cream. Place in liquid nitrogen and let freeze. Once frozen take them out cut them open and put the frozen foam cylinder in someones car. It will fill the entire inside of a small car with white foam. Gives it a fresh smell.

 

[rbattelle]

We did this once. Take 2 cans of foam (not gel) shaving cream. Place in liquid nitrogen and let freeze. Once frozen take them out cut them open and put the frozen foam cylinder in someones car. It will fill the entire inside of a small car with white foam. Gives it a fresh smell.

That is great. Wish I had a source for liquid nitrogen. Does it ruin the car interior?



-Ryan

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

I've heard of a guys car with a sun roof getting filled with packing peanuts :-laf

 

[DieselTweaker]

guilty of packing some's car full but it wasnt with packing peanuts it was shreed paper.



he kept the car for 2 year's after that and up intill he traded it in it would still blow a piece of paper out of the vent's



how many trash bag's full of shreeded paper can you cram into a ford escort, dont know but it only takes about 7-8 to fill one up LOL





and I love the one with the shaving cream, If I ever get my hands on Liquid nitrogen Look out I will try that

 

[midlife crisis]

Another one from my shop was when someone had just buttoned up a rebuild was to throw a new rod bearing or main shell into the pile left on the bench. Or, put it in a box or wrapper and leave on top of the garbage. Just before startup on the dyno say "Hey,Whats this?" An extra wrist pin clip always caused brief cardiac arrest.

Just as good was after a trans rebuild was to throw a new piston seal or extra clutch plate into or under the gasket kit left on the bench.

 

[DTroy]

When I was a teenager I walked out of work one day to find my Escort wrapped up in the plastic that they use to wrap pallets with. It was wrapped around the mid-section so that I couldn't get into the car. I didn't have a knife, and they must have used a whole roll of that stuff. I ended up getting the hatchback open enough to crawl in and close it behind me.

It was a late night and I had to be up early the next morning so I didn't have time to get it all off. You should have seen the people staring at this thing... loose plastic fluttering in the wind and everything. And the plastic under the car was melting off of the exhaust. The stink!!

 

[JasonCzerak]

When I was a teenager I walked out of work one day to find my Escort wrapped up in the plastic that they use to wrap pallets with. It was wrapped around the mid-section so that I couldn't get into the car. I didn't have a knife, and they must have used a whole roll of that stuff. I ended up getting the hatchback open enough to crawl in and close it behind me.

It was a late night and I had to be up early the next morning so I didn't have time to get it all off. You should have seen the people staring at this thing... loose plastic fluttering in the wind and everything. And the plastic under the car was melting off of the exhaust. The stink!!

heheh, did that before to some friends when I was 16/17. we wrapped 2 full size vans up in the stuff.



Then took some and wrapped 3 street signs up at and intersection at about windshield level. Never did find out what happneed to that.

 

[JoeBioDiesel]

When I went to work in a different new car dealership, someone would open my lunch and take a bite out of my sandwich any time I left for a road test. After a couple of weeks of this I told my service mgr that I had someone in the shop just took a bite of a D-Con sandwich. A trip to the hospital and one police interview later, and not too many people thought it was funny anymore. I never really poisoned it. Nobody screwed with my lunch again either.

Joe

 

[rbattelle]

When I went to work in a different new car dealership, someone would open my lunch and take a bite out of my sandwich any time I left for a road test. After a couple of weeks of this I told my service mgr that I had someone in the shop just took a bite of a D-Con sandwich. A trip to the hospital and one police interview later, and not too many people thought it was funny anymore. I never really poisoned it. Nobody screwed with my lunch again either.

Joe

Holy cow, that is AWESOME! [Thank God you didn't actually poison anyone].



-Ryan

 

[RBrunson]

Don't try this at home, leave it to the pro's. One of our Pipefitters was welding on a 20' section of pipe. When he went to lunch we put a roll of paper towels in the end that he wasen't working on and then filled the pipe with Oxy/Acc. gas. When he struck his arc it lit er off. Scared the bee-jeesus out of us, nearly blew the shop up.



I have been the butt of the extra parts on the bench too. Rebuilding Porsche transmission, get all done and find a shim on the bench for the pinion shaft. Not funny, them things are not like working on a Borg-Warner.

 

[DWeiler]

Didn't happen in the shop,but when i was working at the local grocers,we would get the new kid to go upstairs and get the "winter tires" for the shopping carts and change them over. If he could'nt find them upstairs go across the street and ask the tire shop to order some in for us. . Dumb ones would come back and ask again what i needed ,"smart ones" would figure it out before they crossed the street but you could definetly knew the wheels were spinning between there ears. :-laf :-laf :-laf .

 

[DieselTweaker]

Don't try this at home, leave it to the pro's. One of our Pipefitters was welding on a 20' section of pipe. When he went to lunch we put a roll of paper towels in the end that he wasen't working on and then filled the pipe with Oxy/Acc. gas. When he struck his arc it lit er off. Scared the bee-jeesus out of us, nearly blew the shop up.



I have been the butt of the extra parts on the bench too. Rebuilding Porsche transmission, get all done and find a shim on the bench for the pinion shaft. Not funny, them things are not like working on a Borg-Warner.

Anytime you can bring fire and small explosions to play is good in my book. .



I scared the crap out of a guy that I use to work with,,,, He had a broken off ERG bolt, had to pull the intake to extract it,,, he messed around with it and I just told him to put some heat to it and and bring it out,,,, well he walked away looking for the torch,,, I sparyed some brake cleaner inside the intake and he came back just a few seconds later and lit the torch and before he even touched the intake It went off PRICELESS flame's shooting out the intake port's, egr passage, everything it was amazing and to hear a grown man squeal like a girl that was by far the best!