Shop practical jokes

[IC Smoke]

-I usually put never-seize on the nose pieces of my co-workers saftey glasses

-shut the lights off when a co-worker goes into the bathroom

-take a exact-O knife and slice a X on one side of a co workers pop bottle and put a SMALL triangle on the other side... . they get drenched before they know whats happening!!

-take a co-workers toolbox and put it on one of the steel racks out back with the fork truck... . thats a good one!!



Ian

 

[terrywerm]

We had a new twist on the old grease zerk in the toolbox trick. We had one guy telling us about that gag just before he left on vacation. When he came back, there was a zerk with grease on it right next to the lock on his toolbox. He went nuts! #@$%! (rightfully so) We finally let him in on the gag: I took a zerk and ground the threaded portion off of it, just about down to the hex part, then put a little dab of silicone on it and left if dry for a few minutes, finally sticking it on his toolbox and putting a little dab of grease on it. The effect was the same but without the damage. :-laf



Never Seize on the gray band in a hard hat is good too!

 

[nickleinonen]

Never Seize on the gray band in a hard hat is good too!

done that with vasoline. . water in hard hats is good too. . if they don't dump it out before putting it on head :-laf...



put a self tapping screw into a toolbox wheel to keep it from turning is fun too. my shop is large enough to hide a tool box too. . we hid one inside a power assembly cardboard box. . [~36"x~36"x48"h] guy looked for it for a full shift [and did no work during that 8 hours]

 

[rholcom2]

Expensive Pranks!!!

In my "Management mind" I see the above prank from nickleinonen to be very costly for the employer. Makes me wonder what the most expensive prank of all time cost the employer?!?!?! Even though costly for employers I wonder how much it promotes camaraderie and raises morale? I suppose for a team member who is not a very good sport the said prank would definitely lower morale and camaraderie. So, who thinks they have pulled the most expensive prank of all time? Do you have values, or at least approximate values (i. e. the above listed employee looked for his tool box for an entire shift; 8 man hours @ ~$20/hr = $160 + benefits + Lost productivity of searching worker and other workers. None-the-less I do see the humor and pranks run rampant in my workplace (construction jobsites). Carryon with your pranking!!!! :-laf

 

[nickleinonen]

there are guys at my work who do a total of 30 min [or less]of actual work in an 8 hour shift. i've managed to do as little as 1 hour total work within the 8 hour shift, but i also have managed to sleep 4 hours within an 8 hour shift. . gotta love working the railway

 

[EKlem]

This isn't strictly shop related but it is along the same lines. I work on a schooner so we usually try to prank the other boats rather than getting the guys on your own boat but it does happen. Some things that we have done include:



-Setting alarm clocks for every 15 minutes throughout the night and hiding them all over another boat.

-Hanging silverware at waterline on a boat with a steel hull so that it tinks against the hull all night.

-Tying fish line to another boats bell, taking it around something on a third boat and then to your own. Once you ring the bell for a few seconds you just tie a weight onto the end of the line and drop it and they think that the other boat did it.

-Putting rice in the sails of other boats so that it rains down as they raise them the next day.

-Sliding things such as toilets down other boats ancher chains so that it comes up on the anchor the next morning.

-Tying a bucket to their rudderpost to slow them down.



There are a lot more usually involving flying homemade banners or underwear from another boats rigging. It definitely keeps the humors of the different boat's crews up.

 

[Kiohio]

1 unattended thermos 1/2 full of coffee. $2

1 First aid kit pack of Alka Seltzer Free



Look on the guys face when the lid flys off at 500mph riceless!



Put tape over the mouthpiece on the phone.

This works very well for the guy you know spends LOTS of company time on the phone making personal calls.



I LOVE the old "rocks in the hubcaps" joke but hardly anyone has hubcaps anymore.



I had a guy empty everything out of the bed of my truck once.

Sucks when in a hurry to get home.



KO

 

[Nate]

Anyone watch the movie waiting?



We have a few guys that do the "brain" or "batwings"... plus a few others.

 

[Dieselnut59]

This isn't strictly shop related but it is along the same lines. I work on a schooner so we usually try to prank the other boats rather than getting the guys on your own boat but it does happen. Some things that we have done include:



-Setting alarm clocks for every 15 minutes throughout the night and hiding them all over another boat.

-Hanging silverware at waterline on a boat with a steel hull so that it tinks against the hull all night.

-Tying fish line to another boats bell, taking it around something on a third boat and then to your own. Once you ring the bell for a few seconds you just tie a weight onto the end of the line and drop it and they think that the other boat did it.

-Putting rice in the sails of other boats so that it rains down as they raise them the next day.

-Sliding things such as toilets down other boats ancher chains so that it comes up on the anchor the next morning.

-Tying a bucket to their rudderpost to slow them down.



There are a lot more usually involving flying homemade banners or underwear from another boats rigging. It definitely keeps the humors of the different boat's crews up.

I have seen some GREAT ideas on here! Still got to try the rearranging the keyboard letters thing.

I got a great laugh while imagining a toilet hanging as someone retiieves his anchor! That is friggin HILARIOUS!



I had an ex girlfriend let the air out of my tires one time while I was at the dance hall(someone witnessed her doing it) I limped it over to the quickie station and aired them back up. Never mentioned a thing. After the dust settled, I took my valve core remover and removed all four valve stem cores from her tires. I never saw the results or heard anything about it, but I can imagine what four little 50 cent cores must have costed to get replaced at after 2:00 in the morning!

 

[Molnar]

I shouldn't have talked about tapeballs! Caught one in the nads today, oooohhhh! :{ Good thing he didn't whip it.

Jack up a coworkers car, put a block under axle, set down so tire barely touches. transmission go bad?

Glue coffee cups to table w/ superglue!

Put big steel block in somebody's lunch bucket. I tore the handle off mine one day, tried to leave in a hurry :--)

Walk up behind somebody welding or not paying attention, slam a BIG hammer on steel bench, loader bucket or what have you.

Our High School Principal had an Electric Car that looked like a door stop and every day in metal shop we would put his car on a block, we did that for almost two years before he caught us putting classmates car one the sidewalk.

 

[PToombs]

In my "Management mind" I see the above prank from nickleinonen to be very costly for the employer. Do you have values, or at least approximate values (i. e. the above listed employee looked for his tool box for an entire shift; 8 man hours @ ~$20/hr = $160 + benefits + Lost productivity of searching worker and other workers. :-laf

This depends on how you look at it. This is what we get paid, figure this at shop rate, $82 an hr. :--) See how the company looks at it? :-{}

 

[WDixon27]

did that to a guy i know was sucking the fuel out of my car, except that i cut the little tit off and reinstalled the core with some super glue i saw 4 of them the next day standing around trying to figure out why they couldn't air up the tire :-laf i never had diesel come up missing again from my car

I took my valve core remover and removed all four valve stem cores from her tires. I never saw the results or heard anything about it, but I can imagine what four little 50 cent cores must have costed to get replaced at after 2:00 in the morning!

 

[imaybail]

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

That reminds me of the one about the farmer that kept having watermelons stolen from his patch, so he decides to put a sign that read "one of these watermelons is poisoned". So, the next morning he goes to check the effect of his brainstorm and there is another sign posted that read "two of these watermelons is poisoned".

 

[RoryTek]

When I used to work as a pressman (printer) we would ask the new guys to grab some more type wash or blanket wash and would give them a 8oz styofoam cup, by the time they get back from the barrell the type wash would eat out the bottom of the cup.

 

[Scot]

Take a 12" sq electrical junction box, add 2 lamp timers, a transformer, a burgler alarm timer and a 100+ dB fire alarm horn and wire it in over the bunk room in the fire station.



What you get is a real loud horn that goes off for 3 seconds at 2am only on B shift And it is real hard to find.

 

[terrywerm]

I used to work for a large family owned company. The owner was a prankster himself, and thought highly of his maintenance and engineering team since we kept his "baby" running in top form. If we had worked through lunch one day to get something running again, he would often order in pizza or hoagies for us a day or two later in return, and would give us a heads up that he was buying lunch. Well he got us good one day: He paid the pizza outfit to deliver 5 empty pizza boxes to the shop! Thankfully, the real pizzas showed up 30 minutes later.



We got even though - really even! - and it wasn't cheap. For the owner's 65th birthday we removed all of the furniture from his office the night before, put down plastic sheeting on the floor and laid sod in his office - yes, live sod, green as can be, then put his furniture back in. Early the next morning, before he arrived, we had two live sheep delivered and placed them in his office. Sadly, I wasn't there to see the look on his face when he walked in to find sheep grazing on real grass in his office! Oh, I forgot to mention: he had a large conference table in his office that had a one piece top. The only way to get it in or out was to remove the windows and haul it in or out with a crane since his office was on the second floor.



I never saw the bill for it, but there were three of us on the clock, doing all the work, both to set it up and to clean it up afterward. Additionally, there were bills for:

Removal and reinstallation of the windows - twice. Once when the table went out, and once the next night when the table went back in.

Crane service - twice

Half a pallet of sod

Charges for "rental" and delivery of the sheep.

Oh, and the company paid for all of it, but it was dirt cheap in comparison to the cost of the company wide party that he threw for his birthday!

 

[RALLER]

Getting Even

Had this mechanic working in the next stall. He was alway trying to get me fired Was envious of my earning ability. Like i could make 3 to 4 times more than he could. The shop refrigater was in his stall and he kept a lieter pepsi bottel in their all the time. And he would suck on it all day long. So i got this bright idea to PEE in in it. Just a little bit ever so often. So he would take a swig on it and make a remark about it was getting flat. And i am trying to keep a streight face. This went on all one summer and he never caught on. Still crackes me up ever time i think of it.

 

[barbwire]

I think I know why he was trying to get you fired. If you were doing other sick things like what you just wrote about, I wouldn't want to be in the same buisiness as you either. I don't care who you are, that is not funny, it is just plain "sick".

 

[R-N-R]

I think I know why he was trying to get you fired. If you were doing other sick things like what you just wrote about, I wouldn't want to be in the same buisiness as you either. I don't care who you are, that is not funny, it is just plain "sick".

Well stated!

 

[JohnsonG]

When I worked aircraft maintenance in the Air Force, we would send the new kids to the other side of the base to get 2 foot of "flightline". .