Ever work with an old timer that would play pranks on you?

Mine is my friends Dad in Minnesota. When I was 12 and 13 years old, we always rode dirt bikes and snowmobiles at his house. When we would be in his shop working with his dad, he was always shocking or burning me with things. Puting grease on everything. I think I fell for just about every trick he pulled. I hated him for it, but now its kinda funny looking back on it.

no old timers but we broke in a new guy when i worked at midas.. he was doing ball joints on a G3500 van.. winshield silvent jug get torch lit tap it out so gas still flows.. fill bottle upside down til u smell gas.. cap the bottle shut off torches.. put jug on bench other side of shop, shove a sparkler in the wrapper.. light causually walk outside to converse.. and watch him shit himself when it blows up and hes hammering on the knuckle of the van trying to separate it

I like to hit shit with a hammer when buddies are underneath working on it.

Or if there is a bathroom in the shop I spray carb cleaner under the door and light it if your dropping a deuce. :evil:

old timer once told me a story of how a guy installed a grease zurk in the back of a guys tool box. he then took the grease hose off our bank of fluid reels that wat atteched to a 55gal drum of grease. at the end of the day he put a zip tie around the handle of the grease hose and let the rest of the 55gal drum of grease flow into his tool box.. im sure it was a real nice mess.

never seeze under door handles is always a good one.

If I need to get one of my techs attention, I do several things:evil:
Firecracker in the exhaust shielding after a big job.
Trans fluid in the exhaust while a motor is out.
Spill coolant under a car after a water pump/cooling system job.

Asking new guys on the job, pipefitter, to go get a pipe stretcher. OR "run over to the supply house and get a skyhook" Never seems to fail.

we have an elobrate prank we play on new guys usualy the lube techs.

get a large trans funnel and cut the end off so it is about 1in diameter.

then round up a tennis ball:D
get the service manager to come over to someones stall and start playing a "game" with the funnel. put it in your pants and try to let the tennis ball roll of your forehead in to the funnel. if you get 3 in a row the service manager will buy pizza for lunch,or atleast that is the story. when it is the new guys turn. let him get the funnel in his pants,get the ball on his forehead,he is getting in to the "game" at this point:D

now take the very large glass of cold water you had stashed,and pour it in the funnel:laughing:

Asking new guys on the job, pipefitter, to go get a pipe stretcher. OR "run over to the supply house and get a skyhook" Never seems to fail.

we sent the new kid across the site to get the sixteen-fifteenth combo wrench off the other truck. we were all watching him dig through the truck for a while. after a while, he came back with the 1-1/6 combo wrench. i guess he actually could think for himself:D

later that day we sent him across the site to the foreman's truck to get the pipe stretcher. he's over there digging though the truck and looking in every bin. we see the foreman ask him what he's looking for and then we get "the look" from the foreman from across the site:laughing:

it's always fun to soak a rag in acetone or gas and throw it under someone welding or using the cutoff saw on metal pipe:D

The first time I ran the TIG it was late at night at SHortbus's shop after we were done with regular stuff. I put my helmet on, he steps away and as I push the pedal BAM!!! he hit the table with a sledge as hard as he could.

So a couple months or maybe a year later, I was home from college for the summer and we were working on something until 3 or 4 am and he was starting to get tired. I found a tiny mouse that had got into some plastic wrapping in the trash and couldn't find it's way out and died. When he stepped out to take a leak I found an old empty carton of his smokes and slipped the mouse inside and swapped the pack with his. I went back over to the lathe and watched as he came back and sat down to have a smoke before we quit. The look on his face and hearing him scream (loud enough to hear over the rotophase) was a nice payback.

The first time I ran the TIG it was late at night at SHortbus's shop after we were done with regular stuff. I put my helmet on, he steps away and as I push the pedal BAM!!! he hit the table with a sledge as hard as he could.

So a couple months or maybe a year later, I was home from college for the summer and we were working on something until 3 or 4 am and he was starting to get tired. I found a tiny mouse that had got into some plastic wrapping in the trash and couldn't find it's way out and died. When he stepped out to take a leak I found an old empty carton of his smokes and slipped the mouse inside and swapped the pack with his. I went back over to the lathe and watched as he came back and sat down to have a smoke before we quit. The look on his face and hearing him scream (loud enough to hear over the rotophase) was a nice payback.


That would have been a site to see....

We used to have this 55-year old farmer working with us. If you can imagine, he was about 5'8", big belly, blue overalls, denim button-up shirt, glasses, and curly grey hair sticking out from under a dirty old welder's cap.

He used to share an area with us welding manways on a turntable with a subarc. He would just sit there in a folding chair poking at the flux with a metal rod any time too much built up. One day after the 4th of july, we taped a firecracker to the back side of where the subarc was operating, and out of his view. When it came around to that spot, POP. He stood up and looked directly at us. It was quite funny.

Then around the same time we stuffed one up in the nozzle of the subarc, which was a pretty good sized nozzle. I would say it was a 3/4" ID. It didnt take nearly as long, and being as that we were responsible for the previous firecracker incident, he looked directly at us.

Another guy would also set small boxes on fire, and set them under his chair. It was so funny watching him sniff around, searching for the source. Then when the fire got big enough to create some real heat, he would of course jump up and start looking for the culprit, whom would be watching from behind a welding blind.

I miss the days when work was fun...

Worked with an old timer who would till me about when he was first starting in auto body. He worked with a guy who would go get drunk at lunch, and on the days he would get really lit, they would weld his body hammers to the work bench. Just to watch him try to pick them up.

Standing across a table from a co-worker having a conversation all the while spraying your choice of aerosol on his crotch.

The hammer on the table while welding is always effective, or WD-40 sprayed on whatever piece is being welded.

Walking by and shutting off a bottle while someones cutting.

We don't do this on purpose but it gets my boss and I all the time. One of us is on a machine, usually a lathe that is feeding, and the other is stamping parts. I hit the deck once cause I have already shot a piece of brass at my head once and really don't want it to happen again.

We also have a nice gap under the bathroom door so bottle rockets get shot into the bathroom all the time. Usually if you are not done taking a shit yet, the bottle rocket will get the rest out. Unless you are used to it like I am.

My boss also loves to walk over to whatever machine I am working on like he is going to tell me something and then tear ass leaving a fierce wind lingering around the machine while I am trying to work.

Im a structual iron worker so theres a few tricks. :laughing:

First thing every apprentice iron worker needs is a Beam stretcher. Cant erect a building without one of those. Its awesome seeing them digging around the truck to finally notice everybody laughing at them.

If you have welded 232 you know how its a pain in the ass to learn how to set your machine when your first starting out. We get guys on our machines running lumpy but passable passes and they start talking shit about easy 232 is. Well thats when you crank the voltage up to about 36 :evil:.

I do this to everybody not just rookies but when sombody is fawking around all morning and just being a dope setting everything up. I wait until they get all the way ontop of the steel and ill shut their machine down or unhook their ground. Nothing better than a super getting pissed because its 9am and the guy hasnt even struck an arc yet. :laughing: Sucks when they do it to me though. :laughing:

In the shop the welders fawk with us field guys every chance they get (cuz their jelous) Theres nothing like hearing your name from all directions when theres that much noise going around. You dont know whos calling you. And when you have 10 welders doing it, it gets annoying. :laughing:


Best one yet:

Me: Is your spud setup for the right pitch?
him: idk
Me: let me see it
"he hands it over"
Me: "while throwing spud off building" Yup pitch is just about perfect. :evil: :laughing:

This thread rules! :smokin:

As an electrician, it's always fun to see the look on a laborers face when they're walking buy and you keep touching something with your screwdriver and jumping, cussing, and touching it again. I'm sure at least one of the guys working for us thinks I'm brain dead. I've had some that rush over and go "ohh shit! you ok!?", I just look at him and do it again and they get a weird look on their face and wander off.

Here are a few machinist pranks....

Grease the underside of the tool box handles.

Pull the matching drawers out of the rollaway tool box and replace them differently.

Place some stinky cheese in the tool box drawers.

Super glue or Black Max their coffee cup down.

I think you guys are a bunch of childish assholes who deserve the beatdown you get/got.

Funny, I go to work to work, not fuck with other folks.

the shops I've worked, doing any of this stuff would get your ass on the unemployment line.

Pull the matching drawers out of the rollaway tool box and replace them differently.

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:laughing: thats a good one

I think you guys are a bunch of childish assholes who deserve the beatdown you get/got.

Funny, I go to work to work, not fuck with other folks.

the shops I've worked, doing any of this stuff would get your ass on the unemployment line.

STFU.. We have to work the rest of our lives, why not make it a little fun once in awile?

I think you guys are a bunch of childish assholes who deserve the beatdown you get/got.

Funny, I go to work to work, not fuck with other folks.

the shops I've worked, doing any of this stuff would get your ass on the unemployment line.

Would not want to work with you,snitch!

If I had to, I would put my dirty underware in your lunch box!

Would not want to work with you,snitch!

If I had to, I would put my dirty underware in your lunch box!

Way funny :laughing:

I think you guys are a bunch of childish assholes who deserve the beatdown you get/got.

Funny, I go to work to work, not fuck with other folks.

the shops I've worked, doing any of this stuff would get your ass on the unemployment line.

I would bust ass in his cookie bag and seal in the freshness:flipoff2:.i have also sent new pipeline labourers to find the 8in rapeing tool,the boss always seems to find that funny.

I think you guys are a bunch of childish assholes who deserve the beatdown you get/got.

Funny, I go to work to work, not fuck with other folks.

the shops I've worked, doing any of this stuff would get your ass on the unemployment line.

I agree..most pranks start as "fun" but some end in people getting hurt or throwing punches.

I was the apprentice of mean old German toolmaker .. you fuck with his stuff or him and you had a fight on your hands.

auto tech
old guy at old job (huge prick this guy got everyone) if you had a soda open he would walk up and drink it. if it wasnt opened then he would shake the hell out of it.

so one day after lunch i put my soda down he takes a big gulp as i start to walk off. he turns around i grab the cup pour "top engine clean in it" ( kinda like GM seafoam) he gets like 5 ft i yell at him "take one my fucking drink of my soda old man im gonna break your god damn hip you sob" :grinpimp: he comes back take a big gulp one more mouth full till he figures it out. spits all over the floor starts coughin almost throws up. :flipoff2: i and 2 other guys fall on the floor laughin. sob never took another drink of my pop :D

i have watched lube techs guy on top waits for guy on bottom to get drain plug out guy on top wraps hads around fill hole blows as hard as he can........... shoots oil everywhere and if hes lucky the guys right in the way :laughing:

lubetech again guy on top pours washer fluid on top of guy on bottom and says oops and does it again.

there was a guy outside knelt down fillin a tire i rolled up behind him in a car he never heard me i crept up real slow nudged him he fell over. i locked the doors and started to back up he freaked out and chased me as i drove off. :evil:

there are tons more everydays a prank day.

from banana peels in coat pockets to fruity smellin sprays in chicks cars gettin sprayed on your uniforms on the rack.

We have a big black rubber dick that gets put in conspicuous places around the shop as a prank

here it is in the first aid kit, going through tech at KOH09

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o yea, it had balls on it. but we cut them off so we could glue it to the "truck nuts" under our truck drivers truck

i have watched lube techs guy on top waits for guy on bottom to get drain plug out guy on top wraps hads around fill hole blows as hard as he can........... shoots oil everywhere and if hes lucky the guys right in the way :laughing:

lubetech again guy on top pours washer fluid on top of guy on bottom and says oops and does it again.

there was a guy outside knelt down fillin a tire i rolled up behind him in a car he never heard me i crept up real slow nudged him he fell over. i locked the doors and started to back up he freaked out and chased me as i drove off. :evil:

there are tons more everydays a prank day.

from banana peels in coat pockets to fruity smellin sprays in chicks cars gettin sprayed on your uniforms on the rack.

The joint I worked in, the underhood guy would yell "Clear to start?" down at the guy in the pit, to make sure it was ok to start. One day he started yelling down "Queer to start?" I didn't catch it at first, everyone laughed.


A guy I work with was a machinist, and a guy he worked with had bought a new wooden machinists box. He was very proud of his new box, which cost a week's pay. As a joke, my buddy cut a long screw in half and glued the two parts to the box, like it was driven through the top and side. They guy with the box came back, looked at it, and pushed it off the table where it shattered on the floor. My buddy explained that it didn't go through, it was a joke, and bought him a new box.


I put a sticker on a guy's bike that says "I have crabs".

when i worked at QMC we would always tack someones parts to the Jig, or stuff some old earplugs in their nozzle when they went to take a shit. we also ran axcess 450s. you could set the prgrams for O2 or CO2. since O2 gas welds hotter than CO2 it wouls slightly vary the output, but could really fuck with you depending on what you were doing. that one could take people a while to figure out and was funny to watch people fuck with the machine trying to figure out what the hell happened while they were gone.

when i was at school we would switch the Tig machines to output contact when some of the less intelligent students walked away from their machine. it was always good for a laugh when they came back and couldnt figure out what the hell was wrong with the welder.

The PB blaster under the toilet door trick, cost a few people their lifes in Australia all hazing type pranks are banned now after a few people took it too far and scared people for life or killed them

My dad had a couple good stories from when he used to work in tire shops in Akron back in the 70's. I guess there was a supervisor who liked to flick cigarette butts at people while they were working, for what reason I don't know, but my dad and his buddy apparently smoked a cigar at the company christmas party and surreptitiously placed the still-lit end in the super's back pocket as he walked up to the podium to give a speech or something, and started to until he was smoking, had to run off stage with everyone laugh, got a burn on his ass, and I guess after that he stopped the cigarette flicking trick.

He also said one of his old coworkers would always go into the lunchroom 15 minutes after lunch had ended so he could grab whatever was leftover and take it home or save it for the next day's lunch, and then lock whatever it was in his locker. The first time they decided to fuck with the guy, he took a bunch of sausages that were in buns, and they broke into his locker and replaced all of the sausages with lengths of red air hose. The second time, he tool a whole roast chicken, and they took it out, cleaned it off, and put the complete skeleton back in his locker on a platter. :laughing:

At my old job at the tool & die shop, there was one guy who always left all of his measuring tools sitting out on his work bench arranged so that if they had been moved he would know. when i worked nights, i'd wait til he left, and then just move everything around, and when he'd come back in the am, he'd freak out.

we also made air nozzles that would fit on the many air hoses around the shop that would fire various projectiles, that one was fun til this 19 year old kid fresh out of career training almost lost an eye to a dowel pin.

my favorite was the laser pointer, i had an old one in my toolbox and i'd wait til i saw someone concentrating on something super intensely, and i'd start to shine it on their toolbox or the part they were working on, and it would always freak them out.

Here are a few machinist pranks....

Grease the underside of the tool box handles.


No, "prussian" blue/hi spot blue. Just getting within 6" of that stuff somehow causes it to show up on everything else you touch for the next week.

No, "prussian" blue/hi spot blue. Just getting within 6" of that stuff somehow causes it to show up on everything else you touch for the next week.

That would be good for the inside frame of safety glasses!

the college workshop technician... regularly sends people for left handed screwdrivers :)

At my old job at the tool & die shop, there was one guy who always left all of his measuring tools sitting out on his work bench arranged so that if they had been moved he would know. when i worked nights, i'd wait til he left, and then just move everything around, and when he'd come back in the am, he'd freak out.



we all have our own area and worktable or bench where i work. usually since it is not a really big shop we are always working all over the shop where ever there is space and where ever is close to the specific task we have. there is one fellow who is easy to get along with almost all of the time, but, if people are leaving things on his bench he will spaz. now since we all end up working all over the shop it is pretty common to leave tools or whatever on yours or someone elses bench shortterm. he is cool with that. the best trick is to leave a wire wheel or a grinder disk on his bench. when people do that to me, i claim it as my own and it goes into the tool box. not him, he will walk around the shop asking everyone if it was theirs, why it was there and what it it if he doesnt know. it is very comical, so i try to leave something unimportant or weird on his bench every so often... :D

I agree..most pranks start as "fun" but some end in people getting hurt or throwing punches.

I was the apprentice of mean old German toolmaker .. you fuck with his stuff or him and you had a fight on your hands.

Eggsactly!

I worked in skilled trades in between my jobs as environmental/safety engineers. It only takes one fatal accident investigation to change a person's ways of looking at things.

I have punched folks on several occasions for them asking me a question and as soon as I raised my welding helmet, they drew an arc. I backed a guy up in high school once for doing that to me and for some reason, the instructor was busy with other students and didn't interrupt my "teaching" this piece of shit to not try to blind me again. I have major anger management issues and go WAY out of my way to avoid confrontations that will result in somebody getting hurt. Do shit like that to me and I'm not worried about who gets hurt or how badly.

You fuck with my tools or my machinery and you'll be looking for a new job. I use those tools and that machinery to EARN my wages, not play grab-ass.

You fuck with my tools or my machinery and you'll be looking for a new job. I use those tools and that machinery to EARN my wages, not play grab-ass.

Amen Brother! This is perhaps one of the most irresponsible pieces of internet drivel that I have ever happened to see show up in our shop and tool section.

I think it reflects especially poorly on the OP, a machine tool vendor. You know that some poor SOB is going to copy one of these pranks and loose their job or worse.

Kudos to you PT for making your point, you are absolutely correct, most of us go to work to work and to support our families. If anyone tried most of these pranks at my place of employment, they would be on the street.

Later,
Jason

Amen Brother! This is perhaps one of the most irresponsible pieces of internet drivel that I have ever happened to see show up in our shop and tool section.

Later,
Jason

First off Jason, I have got to get up to meet you. I think we'd get along well.

Secondly, if this were something like someone showing pics of a rig on a tree trunk or driving off the trail or heaven help us defecating on the 'Con, everyone would be on the OP to delete the post, but this sort of silliness is not only permitted but encouraged.

The double standards are pretty curious here.

I no longer have a yellow star and am not nearly as concerned of what folks think of me!

Eggsactly!


You fuck with my tools or my machinery and you'll be looking for a new job. I use those tools and that machinery to EARN my wages, not play grab-ass.

There's a difference between putting a For Sale sign on someone's toolbox, and shooting/throwing projectiles across the shop.

When we get a new guy we throw a can of tuna in the crew truck thats cracked open give it about 6 days and no one will be able to go in the truck. Then blame it on him for leaving food in the truck.

Uncle told story from where he worked. One guy would sneak into the lunch room and pick through peoples lunch and take out cookies dougnuts etc.. He would never own up to it so one day they replaced the blueberry filling in a dougnut with metal bluing. Said he was blue for a week.

Uncle told story from where he worked. One guy would sneak into the lunch room and pick through peoples lunch and take out cookies dougnuts etc.. He would never own up to it so one day they replaced the blueberry filling in a dougnut with metal bluing. Said he was blue for a week.

Somebody kept taking food out of our fridge at work. I took some yogurt containers, flipped them over, cut the bottom out, mixed them up with ex-lax, and filled them back up, and glued the bottom back in.

Yeah, we found out who it was that night. They got the rest of the yogurt dumped on them in the crapper.:laughing:

We play shop pranks, but don't go too far. We've swapped drawers around in boxes, saran wrapped boxes, safety wired the wheels so they don't roll, etc.

Where I work, we use Isopropyl Alcohol to clean things before applying sealant or painting or whatnot, and also to clean hydraulic components before turning them in to supply to be remanufactured. Many times we'll be in the heat of getting something turned in so we can get to the next job, and someone will go ahead and hook your sleeve up with a squirt or 2 of alcohol and flick their Bic, its hilarious to whomever it happens to and it's happened to me a time or two as well. Also we'll light their back on fire and tell them about it, its great to see them hopping around like Ricky Bobby on Talledega Nights, "I'm on FIRE!" Marines play quite a few jokes, we'd probably kill each other if we didnt.

We used to have an old timer in the job shop that would take High Spot and put it on the ring of your coke can. Then you would wonder why everybody was laughing at you till you saw the blue ring on your nose. Was funny.

This thread reminds me of jack ass, Im sure someone will copy the actions of others and get hurt....

Fire is not fun, take it from some one who has been burned, first the hair gos, your eye lashes turn into velcro and hook together, then the fatty tissue gos, the nose lips and ears melt away...... not funny any day of the week

We don't prank where I work. It's an engineering office, so it's not really appropriate.

But, the only somewhat 'amusing' thing I do is - we have an annoying coworker that likes to wander around and talk. And talk. And talk. Several times, I've heard him rambling on in coworkers' offices, talking about his dog, his broke ass car, an animal he saw, etc... so I'll pick up the phone and call the person that I know he's annoying. Never fails, I hear "sorry, excuse me, I really have to take this phone call" and he walks away. :flipoff2:

Idiots are everywhere, and they always will be. The vast majority of the population can execute a safe prank. But maybe the vast majority should stop having fun for the sake of the idiots. Then we should put on bubble wrapped suits and lock ourselves in circular rooms for the rest of our lives.

We don't prank where I work. It's an engineering office, so it's not really appropriate.


I worked in a testing lab/engineering shop in college. The biggest prank I played was cleaning the coffee mug of the chief engineer. He WOULD NOT wash his coffee mug and every month or two, I'd scrub the black out of his white coffee mug. He claimed the crud filtered the impurities out of his coffee (which always confused me as I thought the Jim Beam he poured in his coffee would kill anything bad).

It pissed him off but did no damage to him, his property and did not significantly reduce productivity (I also always did it on weekends when I was there alone and not on the clock when I washed his mug).

Simple pranks have been the norm @ many fab shops I've worked at.
You can count on checking your gloves when you come back from break. Grease gun into the finger tips was easy to spot.
Whats worse was in the summer time the supplied us with tons of Gatorade powder. Dump that in someones gloves & they wouldnt know it till they took them back off a couple of hours later & had grape purple hands for the rest of the day.

We used to have a guy that always parked in a restricted area of shipping. One day he left his sunroof cracked so the shipping manager filled the entire car with packing peanuts:lmao: He was still finding them 5 years later

We don't prank where I work. It's an engineering office, so it's not really appropriate.

But, the only somewhat 'amusing' thing I do is - we have an annoying coworker that likes to wander around and talk. And talk. And talk. Several times, I've heard him rambling on in coworkers' offices, talking about his dog, his broke ass car, an animal he saw, etc... so I'll pick up the phone and call the person that I know he's annoying. Never fails, I hear "sorry, excuse me, I really have to take this phone call" and he walks away. :flipoff2:That cracks me up. I walked into my cube and the cubemate gave me this {for the love of all that is holy -SAVE ME-} look as he had the resident airbag yacking at him. I put my stuff down, picked up a note pad and said "aren't you going to the 10:30?". He thanked me as we walked down the hall watching the other guy disappear.

I have heard of people attaching a piece of paper to the inside of the overhead door (cube shelf) and piling 3hole punchouts on it. When the person flips the door up,.. whoosh all over the desk.

There was the time someone brought in a 14" woofer they were going to have rebuilt,.. back when monitors had CRTs and were upwards of $600. Thank god the degauss finally worked (after 10-15 hits).

A guy I work with was a machinist, and a guy he worked with had bought a new wooden machinists box. He was very proud of his new box, which cost a week's pay. As a joke, my buddy cut a long screw in half and glued the two parts to the box, like it was driven through the top and side. They guy with the box came back, looked at it, and pushed it off the table where it shattered on the floor. My buddy explained that it didn't go through, it was a joke, and bought him a new box.


We did a similar thing to a guy in the shop once. He was installing new door speakers in a Ferrari. One of the other techs cut the end off a screw, put some sticky on it, then stuck it to the outside of the door. Then he pulled the "OMG you how long were the screws you used!!!"

Another common one was to take apart someones hamburger and screw it to the desk using large plate washers then wrap it back up.

Heard from another wheeler.

Two Bosses bring in their dogs one day. Dogs are running around the shop frolicking.
Moral is shit, employees have quit or are trying to be let go, company is not in good health.

Next day one Boss goes out to have a smoke and there is a couple horses grazing in the lawn. He comes back in and throws a shit fit. "WHO'S FAWKING HORSES ARE OUT THERE?"
Old guy: They're mine, I thought it was ok to bring your pets to work, you did it yesterday......" :laughing:

Around the home shop not saying iv'e done all of these but been there to see them:

a touch of acetolene gas under the door of the crapper then a little flame just to liven things up. better hope teh guy didnt eat beans the night before. (never partaken in this but laughed my ass off a time or two watching)

glue the wheels of the creeper to the floor or a string tied from the creeper to something solid.

zip ties on the driveline
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old ford model A magnito wind it up set it down and wait for some idiot to come play with it. (i can only claim this one and the next one)

change the caps on a ujoint with axle joint caps just to see someone bitch about it not fitting.
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when you used to be able to get the good plumbers putty a cigarette in the tin garbage can with a small piece of paper. putty around the lid edges when someone came in to open the lid on the can the putty would flash and burn

mouthy young know it all kid started with a friend of ours back in late 79 he did a HG job on an old international back in 1981 after a few hours ahd her back together filled her up and took it for a run brought the truck back changed the oil while the oil was draining the 70year old shop owner dumped a couple qts of coolant into the oil. poor kid about had a heart attack when on the second oil change he found coolant in there again. started taking things apart about the time someone told him what was going on.

magnent under the pad in a wrench drawer. pickup one wrech the rubber mat and most the wreches go with you.

I think pranks are one of those things that can either enhance morale or destroy it. The line is when anyone's safety is threatened or property is damaged.

I've seen a crapload in the construction industry and the ones that are ok are the simple, non-damaging ones. Shooting anyone with fire or toxic chemicals should be grounds for termination.

I am in the Automotive shop class at school and we had a girl bring in her car for an oil change and replace the brake pads. While we was changing the oil we had one guy stick his hand up near the headlights and start asking us "Hey look at all the blinker fluid she is leaking!" and she came over, had another student reach his hand up and made sure he rubbed his hand on some oil first....

We had her freaking out that she wouldn't make it home because she was out of "Blinker Fluid"

Finally told her about 15 minutes later and she flipped out on us....Quite funny though.

Well my story of the alcohol happens all the time, the alcohol burns off rather quickly especially when someone is flailing their arm about. It also is decent to note that we do wear Nomex flight suits at work, due to us being hazmat handlers and Flyers most of us. Some people can find utmost humor in this while alot of people will think this is childish and dangerous. To each their own I guess, I've had it done to me countless times and have done it a time or two as well. Its hilarious all the way around especially when you put your fire out! Maybe its different when you live with most of these guys for months on end, you learn the limits you can push someone to.

I worked with a guy that was always fucking with me. I finally got him back by roasting his pringles with an xyacetylene torch. They were nice and brown. Couple hours later i came back to find the lid of my lunch box melted to the body. :homer:

He was one of those guys that it was fine to fuck with you but you mess with him he gets pissed :shaking:

I have a buddy who works as a mechanic at a dealership in Atlanta, and the salesmen are always coming back to the service and asking to borrow a screwdriver or some other tool. He once found a set of Regular and Philips with a plastic dick for a handle. Since he is the first bay on the way in they allways seem to stop and ask him first. It is such a regular thing now that whenever one of the new salesman comes to borrow a screw driver the whole shop will come to a standstill. Kind of like the old E.F. Hutton adds.

Usually the sales guy sees what it is and never comes to ask him again. But there was one who was so clueless that he took the screwdriver stuck it in his back pocket and walked out front to the showroom to go use it. General manager had to stop him from going out to the customers car.

Other small pranks were cutting a spare key for the shop managers demo. Taking and parking it in different parts of the lot. Put a red thong found in a used car in the sun visor on the passenger side. Wife went to pull shade down and it fell out in her lap. Took some cornhuskers lotion used for chapped hands and squirted it in a condom and tossed it on the back seat floor board for the wife to find. Small and annoying non dangerous type stuff.

Carl

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Here is a funny pic i took at work one day

It also is decent to note that we do wear Nomex flight suits at work, due to us being hazmat handlers and Flyers most of us.

Then you should definitely be smart enough to not be doing this shit.

Were I your EH&S person, you'd have a week or two off without pay for unsafe chemical handling. I'm certain there is a procedure somewhere that says not to be setting your co-workers on fire, and perhaps something about not using an open flame around such compounds...

Army stuff:

Send the FNG to get an "exhaust sample" off his vehicle. After he gets it, he put it in a trash bag, it should have been in a exhaust sample bag, go find SGT Whoever and get one. Then he has to turn it in to...........

Check for soft spots on a tank. Using a 2lb ball peen, and cirlce the soft spots with chalk.

While dispatching vehicles, ya gotta have the "proof of insurance cards" for them.

Send him to find a box of grid squares, box of ground guides, can of squelch, or whatever. This one can backfire if the guy is smart and cuts up a map for the grid squares, uses the little green army guys for the ground guides, or makes a can of squelch.

In the early 90's at Ft Knox, we had a new guy come from Korea that had been busted so everyone thought he was fresh out of AIT. They sent him to look for some type of wild goose chase. Well he went home for the day, and came in the next day like nothing had happened. His NCO's were pissed and said he was in trouble, etc. He explained to them that he had went looking for whatever it was they sent him for. He looked everywhere on post, in town, and had to go to Louisville and look also but never found it. He told them they owed him for gas money, meals, etc. They were pissed, but couldn't do a damn thing to him.

Send him looking for a Metric Crescent wrench, a T R double E, a PRK E7, etc.

By Hazmat handling, it just means you can check thing out to other Marines, like 9309, 9394, Alcohol, hydraulic fluid, and engine oil, so they can go fix airplanes, that doesnt mean I'm lighting someone on fire in front of a FLAM locker or anything that stores HAZMAT. Some things in the Marine Corps arent exactly up to par with your standards apparently, but like I stated, when you spend day in and day out with your brothers, 14 hours a day most times, then go back and sleep in the same room as them, you gotta lighten the tension somehow. I get that you dont understand it, as most of you have never been in that type of conditions, but its no freakin harm no foul, its just like lighting someones hair on fire on their arm. It lights, they freak out, then it goes out!!! Calm down. Id like for the Marine Corps to suspend me from my duties for 2 weeks. I'd love that Vacation, there is a time for work, and a time for play, and we know how to do both VERY WELL!!!!!

red loc tite inside everyother socket on a rail. you put it in the square drive end so it glues to the rail.

yellow gear marking compound on hammer handles. put on the bottom side against the table it is laying on.

strap a ziptie to the driveshaft so the excess tail just smacks the floor as it turns.

3oz adhesive wheel weight on the driveshaft.

1 to 2" piece of material under the carpet under the gas pedal. try to make top speed about 30 mph.

we had some of what looked like wireties but they where probably 1.5" wide and 12 feet long we used to wrap all the way around a crappy managers truck sealing the doors shut pretty well.

horn hooked to brake lights or reverse lights.

add about a pound of wheel weights to the inside of a rear tire.

nut tied to a string from the bottom of the window regulator so when you roll down the window to figure out where that rattling is coming from it stops.

just a few I have seen over the years.

If I had to, I would put my dirty underware in your lunch box!

This one reminds me of a guy I used to work with who just loved to fart in other guy's lunch boxes. Come noontime, you'd open your lunchbox and get bowled over by the fart that had been sealed in there all morning. At first you thought your eggsalad sandwhich went bad... then you realized you didn't bring an eggsalad sandwhich! LOL Then you had to decide whether you still wanted to eat any of it, realizing your lunch had been marinating like that. :eek:

It was hilarious... when it was happening to someone else... but we got tired of it, so one day I pumped his lunchbox full of thick axle grease. After that, no more farts! At least not in our lunchboxes. :laughing:

MH

A favorite I heard from a past employer from his earlier Dealership days.

Another tech is rebuilding a manual transmission, gets it all done right at the end of the day. Another tech throws a snap ring on the bench near the transmission to mess with the other tech. However, the tech that rebuilt the transmission comes in early the next day to re-install the fresh rebuild and finds the "extra" snap ring. The rest of the techs come in at the normal time to find him with the transmission all torn down scratching his head wondering where the hell the "extra" snap ring came from. :laughing:

A favorite I heard from a past employer from his earlier Dealership days.

Another tech is rebuilding a manual transmission, gets it all done right at the end of the day. Another tech throws a snap ring on the bench near the transmission to mess with the other tech. However, the tech that rebuilt the transmission comes in early the next day to re-install the fresh rebuild and finds the "extra" snap ring. The rest of the techs come in at the normal time to find him with the transmission all torn down scratching his head wondering where the hell the "extra" snap ring came from. :laughing:

I would have just put it in the car!:flipoff2:

Took the boss's coffee cup, put it in a plastic box filled with water, and stuck it in the freezer overnight. Left a nice block of ice on his desk the next morning when it was time for coffee.

Another time we stuck "I am a wanker" sticker on the bottom of his cup. He wouldn't see it till he took a sip.

Price tags on every piece of equipment with a huge "Sale" sign. Everything discounted to 25 cents. Ends up pulling for sale stickers off their stuff months later.

Last week, dissasembled a keyboard, a small piece of scotch tape disables a key on the kebyoard. Watching someone get frustrated when they can't use the 's' key is entertaining. To make it more entertaining, we did a different key on every spare keyboard lying around (backspace, down arrow, semicolon).

Fake bumper stickers taped onto a vehicle are good too (especially for cars who back into spaces).

There have been several others too, but not really shop applicable. Office related.

Nothing harmful, no lighting people on fire on purpose.

Peach perfume added to the receiving dock super soaker.

Used bailing wire to strap the door shut imprisoning the supervisor in the office.

Strapped the door to the crapper shut after someone destroyed it, before before he could get out. 50 year old man crying and begging to be let out.

Put someones rolling toolbox on top of the top steel racks, then "broke" the forklift.

Pallet wrapped someone's car.

Nothing harmful, no lighting people on fire on purpose.

Strapped the door to the crapper shut after someone destroyed it, before before he could get out. 50 year old man crying and begging to be let out.



Haha, yeah lockin em in a smelly portapotty is an old standby. Works best on hot sticky days. We call that one a "time out." :D

Strapping the door top, middle, and bottom works the best so they can't bend the door to get out (and possibly break the door--big trouble for that one!). Although most of our portapotties come with a little hasp and latch on the outside so the homeless people don't break into em at night. All it takes is a dowel in the hasp to start the banging and yelling. A padlock works even better though... keeps some do gooder from coming along and lettin em out early. :D

MH

I used to work in a tire shop that also did lube jobs.

We had a Jeep douche working with us. He kept talking shit about Toys and how his stock Cherokee Sport would out run my solid axled, diesel Toy on 33s.:laughing:

I crawled under his Jeep and drilled and tapped his exhaust for a grease nipple during lunch. I then dumped a shit load of grease in there.

He spent the day after looking for the source of that bad smell. I and a couple other guys had a lot of fun watching him check his oil and looking at every little thing under the hood.

We would put grease in his exhaust regularly, he was getting worried that he might need to get another motor. We finally told him about it 6 weeks later and he was pissed but calmed down after we removed the nipple and velded the hole shut.

Ive worked in a few body shops over the past 12 years and Ive seen way too many pranks and a lot of them were played on me. Finally got a guy back after he put a cardboard sign on my tailgate that sayed I LIKE BIG MEN in giant letters had lots of people honking at me while driving through town so I got him back by stripping some wire and pulling off a plug boot on his car and sticking it back on and then running the wire through the firewall and along the edge of the carpet and back behind the seat and fraying out the wire, I think his head hit the roof of his car when he fired it up:D

my boss and I have an understanding we dont fawk with each other, oneday we were doing pipe work and another bloke kept turning the power to the welder off when we would strike and Arc 14" line welding in position. he went to hospital after my boss hit him in the head from 4m up with a spanner...shit gets out of hand to easily for us to try and prank people

Watched two employees prank eachother for a week. Always messing with something on eachothers desk, always something minor.

One guys MO was messing with the other guys trackball. Usually just removing the trackball and hiding it somewhere.

Well, I believe that the best pranks frame someone else.

So, after the two parties left, I took the trackball prank to the next level. I cut a piece of electrical tape the exact same size as the sensor. One disabled trackball that isn't easy to detect.

Following morning the guy was unplugging, replugging, reloading drivers, swearing, pissed, and just about ready to kill the other guy. It was so bad, I actually had to intervene and tell him I did it before he hurt someone. :eek::laughing::(

Grow up Children, wonder why all the jobs are going overseas.:mad3:

I like to hit shit with a hammer when buddies are underneath working on it.

Or if there is a bathroom in the shop I spray carb cleaner under the door and light it if your dropping a deuce. :evil:

We would blow the cheetah under the door. :laughing:

I've heard of someone that had their tool box welded to the rafters.

Take a funnel and put it down the front or your pants, put a quarter on your forehead, and lower your head to drop the quarter in the funnel. When noob tries it when his heads back fill the funnel with water. It works good with the wide mouth bottles and a large funnel.

dead fish/dildos hidden or left in lunchboxes.
Stainless welding wire sharpened to look like tungsten.

Beating on a tank/vessel with a 8# sledge while some poor bastards inside waiting for the word "TACK!"

I was working in our hospital here on a remodel so some of the floors were active while we were working on them. Well the paint crew working with us had a new guy and one day right after lunch the hose on their airless popped so the painters told him to go to the nurses station and ask them for some fallopian (sp?) tubes to repair it :laughing: Funny ensued.

I used to work in a restaurant and we would fuck with the waitresses.
We would eat there and for the tip we would put $5 in quarters in a glass of water, put the small plate on top of the glass and turn it over. She didn't think to turn it back over and she just lifted up the glass spilling water all over.

At my shop we don't do anything that can potentially cause a divorce, personal injury or damage to property. Other than that, we encourage pranksmanship. The warehouse manager is the recipient of most of it.
We've put Type-R decals on the tailgate of his truck, backup beeping alarms, zip ties on the driveshaft etc etc.
We once put him up on a three stage forklift to re-aim a security camera and I left his ass up there, topped out the three stage, then turned the engine off and wandered off for a smoke.
Failure to have a sense of humor will get you a trip to the unemployment line.

We set up one guy recently. The LCD computer monitor broke so we got a new one. I had one guy 'drop' the old one on purpose while handing it to the new guy, who didn't know it was already broken. He thought he was gonna get fired in his first month.

Trans fluid in the exhaust while a motor is out.


I had that done to me before. I knew right away. That thing smoked for days!!!

I was standing by watching my friend from work weld after my shift, and was slowly turning the wire speed up on the machine...It was hilarious, he finally stopped and was banging the tip on the truck bed trying to figure out what was wrong.

Had a guy on shift who was a lunch thief, you know the type, always stealing goodies and leftovers etc.

When the crew got sick of his shit I put my plan into motion. I asked a woman at work if she could bring me a feminine napkin from the ladies room and we get creative with it in the shop. We gave it a nice stripe of tranny fluid, a little bit of old coffee dripped on one end and some light green hand cleaner we had (looked like the slime stuff some of us played with as kids). I took the pad and replaced the meat in his sammich.

Lunch time comes, he opens his lunch box and almost takes a bite before he notices something wrong. He opens his sammich, gets a good look at the bloody, clotted, shitty, discharge covered pad and :barf: fills his lunch box.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

We used to jug people in the shop.

Case in point. Pete was replacing the longblock in a MX6 V6 under warranty. Not a fun job to begin with and he was not making it any better crying about it for days. Finally he had it ready to start bfore lunch one day and decided to go to lunch before firing it.

We took a antifreeze jug, capped it, drilled a hole in the cap, shoved a blow gun in it. Then taped the shit out of the entire thing and ziptied the handle open on the gun. Then we bled the air off a line and pinched it closed with visegips. Slid the entire affair under the car and had the pinched part of the line out of sight.

Pete comes back from lunch and fies the car. OF course it runs funny and makes a fair amount of noise, lifters mostly, and smokes for the dirty manifolds and such. After a couple minutes of idle, Pete reachs in and starts revving it a bit. We let the line loose. About 30 seconds later the jug went off. Pete had ahold of the throttle when it did, fucker jumped up, hit his head on the hood and almost did a face plant in the engine bay. :laughing::laughing:

Fucker had to go sit down for a few after that and he hated us for a few months after that. :laughing::laughing:

We also had a service advisor we hated. Fucker could worry the hair off a egg. Tom took a second gen RX7 and hooked the secondary coils to the drivers seat frame, hook a remote start switch to it and set a jumper for the main relay. He then got Greg to sit in the car and attempt to start it.

Fried that little bastard ass. :laughing::laughing: Tom is standing there laugh at Greg while holding the starter button. Greg claimed his ass was black and blue for a week. Keep in mind, while cruel, we really did not like this asshole. This is the same asshole Mark threw in a dumpster one day. :laughing:

I have a foreman that is anal about his company truck. He once bitched about his truck being a mess after another guy & i drove it to go on a service call. Work trucks get dirty everyone know this. He acted all depressed & such infront of the boss, trying to get us in trouble. U know that guilt trip act. Well i hate that behavior its childish. So now eversince that day i make a note to toss jobsite rocks, rotten old 2xs, wrappers etc in his truck quite often. Hes funny now.
He knows it me im sure but i care hah

Had a new coworker several years ago that was tasked with helping me setup for a big presentation.

It came down to a small large wheeled cart that weighed 50lbs and a very large 1-1.5" casterred cart that weighted 500lbs. (brilliant design on the last one)

Anyway, he looks at me and said he'd push the big one over to the event, maybe 3-400 yards away. I could tell what he was thinking, at the end of the day, tired, I'de be the one pushing that bitch back.

I said fine. It's summer, 90-95 degrees, that 500lb cart that flat out sucked to push was killing him. Speed bump here or there, uphill, rough concrete. He got there a tired sweaty mess. When the event got over with, he looked at me with a shit eating grin saying he guessed it was my turn.
































I pulled my cell phone out of my pocket and called a forklift over.

We once put him up on a three stage forklift to re-aim a security camera and I left his ass up there, topped out the three stage, then turned the engine off and wandered off for a smoke.



It looks like you don't mind posting evidence of your criminal actions on public websites.

What you did is a clearly willful and intentional negligent violation of the "powered industrial truck" safety standard. You as a principal of the company have the authority to stop these actions, sounds like an upward aggravating factor.

See how quickly these go from funny to potentially expensive?

I hope Dan Chapman doesn't see this.

I've not had anything to bad done to me (they tried, but I've already heard about most of the tricks), but some of the new people have been sent to support to grab fallopian tubes, or K-9 P.

We have one guy in the office that bitches about everything and he always disappears during building cleanup so after he took the trash in the snack bar out, we refilled it. Then after he took the bathroom trash out and cleaned that we would go and piss all over the toilets, and have him re-clean it. :evil:

We had the girl that got here the same time as me go get keys to the Jet. Another time we were having issues and told her it's because she forgot to plug in the DILDO circuit breaker. She then asked where the dildo CB was. :laughing:

The only good one they have done to me was in tech school. They had me up with the class idiot doing power on/power off (B-52), and the instructor would flip the power on every time we powered off. It took me a minute to catch on, but it took the other guy a while.

It looks like you don't mind posting evidence of your criminal actions on public websites.

What you did is a clearly willful and intentional negligent violation of the "powered industrial truck" safety standard. You as a principal of the company have the authority to stop these actions, sounds like an upward aggravating factor.

See how quickly these go from funny to potentially expensive?

I hope Dan Chapman doesn't see this.

Wow. when did you become so butthurt?

We have snack machines by our shop parts counter. The parts counter is stainless. The parts guy has to put up with our bitching and complaining all the time so I told him it was time for payback.

I glued 2 quarters off to the side of the counter with some jb weld and let it set overnight. In the morning as he was working at getting parts or talking on the phone, service guys would try to be slick and "steal" the coins. He'd call them out and laugh at them.

It looks like you don't mind posting evidence of your criminal actions on public websites.

What you did is a clearly willful and intentional negligent violation of the "powered industrial truck" safety standard. You as a principal of the company have the authority to stop these actions, sounds like an upward aggravating factor.

See how quickly these go from funny to potentially expensive?

I hope Dan Chapman doesn't see this.

Take that shit elsewhere or to a PM. This thread is funny.

Take that shit elsewhere or to a PM. This thread is funny.

Conduct one fatal accident investigation and you'll realize why I am the man I am.

Doing some of these things in factories where I worked would have resulted in your being escorted from the premises and rightly so.

Conduct one fatal accident investigation and you'll realize why I am the man I am.

Doing some of these things in factories where I worked would have resulted in your being escorted from the premises and rightly so.

This thread is titled old timer pranks/shop jokes. Do you realize that?

This thread is titled old timer pranks/shop jokes. Do you realize that?

Running someone up on a forklift and leaving them there is not only mean but illustrates a profound lack of understanding of safety rules and the implications of ignoring them.

Almost every one of these pranks is unlawful, dangerous, mean and above all stupid.

Very few of these actions are defensible, but I know you'll try.

We get it now. You disapprove

Now can we continue??

Running someone up on a forklift and leaving them there is not only mean but illustrates a profound lack of understanding of safety rules and the implications of ignoring them.

Almost every one of these pranks is unlawful, dangerous, mean and above all stupid.

Very few of these actions are defensible, but I know you'll try.


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I used to work for a live sound company and we had this kid that would park his car in the warehouse, which was OK most of the time, but sometimes he'd leave on a delivery, or go to lunch and take the keys with him. We told him to leave the keys with the receptionist so that we could move it out of the way if necessary. Well after about the 5th time, we fillied the interior with packing peanuts.

He still did it, so we lifted it up with one-ton chain motors and hid the motor controllers. That finally got the message through.

This works good for a laugh at a shipping dock ....

cut 2 pieces of pipe, one about 4 feet long and one about 2 feet long.
When the big rigs back up to the shipping dock slip in the middle behind the truck out of passenger rear view mirror sight ( driver will be using his side mirror)and lean over the dock and hold the 4' pipe down so the back of the truck hits the 4" pipe and pushes up to the dock. SMACK Driver thinks hes at the dock and sets the air brakes and shuts her down ( that's when you split) ...driver comes back and see's he is 4 feet from the dock and scratches his head WTF? .
Repeat again using the 2 footer and watch him get really pissed.

This old guy who came to work half drunk was sitting on a stool with a severe case of plumbers buttcrack. Another guy walked up behind him with a grease gun and shoved it down his crack and got off a couple of pumps before he got up off of his stool.

This old guy who came to work half drunk was sitting on a stool with a severe case of plumbers buttcrack. Another guy walked up behind him with a grease gun and shoved it down his crack and got off a couple of pumps before he got up off of his stool.

Had a co-worker tell me this story once.

worker #1 dropped a quarter down my buddies plumber crack while working.
worker #1 discovered a quarter in the bottom of his coffee that day.

zip tie to drivesshaft b4 inspection road test

undo plug wires

pb blaster in exhaust

turn off gas while welding

apply ebrake while in shop

ask new guy if he checked the muffler bearings, kinivity pins, the carb struts

move tools when not looking

put a bead of weld around the bottom of a toolbox, then screw it down in all four corners to a wood work bench. new guy comes in trying to figure out how we welded his metal toolbox to wood :D

There was a guy that drove a fork truck that would leave his lunchbox on a bench. At noon he would drive by and pick it up. One day a guy decided to nail his lunchbox to the bench, when the driver came by to grab his lunch he about pulled himself off of his truck.

Oh noes, I was a big meanie with the forklift. Lighten up, Francis.

If you call me Francis, I'll kill you.

A buddy and I worked at a fab shop for a while. We would always smack the shop table when other is weldin. One day he left early and left some tool out. So I decided to tac weld his hammers and screwdrivers to the table. Also welded his stool to the bottom of the table. He aslo had a auto dimming welding hood. I would turn it off. I worked at a tire shop and we would always tell the new guys to go to the parts clerk for a couple feet of phelopien tube!

Have a new guy fill up the water fountains with a 5 gallon bucket because theyre running low on water

Caution tape

I have wrapped cars, offices, cubicles and furniture. Its amazing how far 1000 feet can go.

Scotch tape on the phone to keep it ringing when you call them.

Another fun one I did had a older lady always telling me don't move anything in her cubicle. So one day she stepped out for lunch I proceeded to move all of her belonging across the office to another open cubicle. I had her computer running, all files placed in the same location, pens, radio, clock, plants, family photos, chair. I didn't stick around to see the response. But she just sat down and went to work at her new station for the rest of the day.

Also had a office the owners would bring their dogs in on a regular basis and would just roam around all day banging into things. I asked if I could bring my dogs in and stated I would keep them in the office. Well the next morning I brought in a 5 foot tall scooby doo and stuck him in the window of my office. The owner started laughing until I reminded her that at least mine won't walk into the confrence room and drop a duece in front of you and a potential client.

Working at the dealership the techs would get the new guy to hop in the car to test the brakes while it was on the lift while they free spun the tires. It usually happened around lunch time. Of course the victim usually got lunch for free that day after the lunch run.

Another for salesmen was to take and put their personal phone numbers and say they wanted gay sex on a paper where their plate goes it would take about a half hour before they would figure out how so many people got their number.

Also for salesmen would just take their phone numbers and place ads saying they had free puppies available, looking for support groups. Usually these would take a couple weeks for the ad to expire.

And we use to call the dealership receptionist to page over the PA system for some customer to go to service Mike Rotch, Ben Dover, etc.

Get one of those big balloons with the rubber bands on them, and some electrical tape. Tape the balloon to the tailpipe of the car. It will take about 30 seconds to explode if they don't have any exhaust leaks.

Another one we do is switch tailgates on peoples trucks.

I'm going to go out a long limb here and say that practical jokes and pranks in the workplace are funny and all that, and not to say I haven't done the same in the past, but some of the things you folks are suggesting have the potential to hurt people.

My employer has extensive training about safety in the workplace and severe penalties for violating such. Horseplay is a terminable offense.

Having said that, I'm all for some good fun, but have since taken another look from a safety standpoint to not engage in such activities.

Not trying to be a "stick in the mud", just trying to enlighten when possible.

Some of the most innocent pranks end up hurting someone sometimes.

And you never know what time that will be.

Quick free practical jokes are funny. Ones that cause businesses or employees money or safety are retarded.

Quick free practical jokes are funny. Ones that cause businesses or employees money or safety are retarded.

I guess my point is you can't judge what will be "free" or "quick".

No telling what innocent pranks might lead to serious loss on the recipients side.

Last one I did was filled the air blower with grease, hilarious results.

One that hasn't happened to me yet, but a good one that we do when it won't hurt the mission, is to take a tool from a 3-man's tool box (any AF flight-liner especially weapons will know how this would go) and hide it about 30 minutes before it's time to leave. We make sure their team chief knows before hand, and in the past they've apparently gotten all the expediters and Chiefs in on it. The person usually freaks and runs around for about 20 minutes before we tell them what's going on.

They had me check the roof of a toolbox (weapons boxes can be the height of a Suburban). They then removed the ladder and started pushing the box. I just laid down, and they gave up locking me in the shed. That was a nice nap. :laughing:

I guess my point is you can't judge what will be "free" or "quick".

No telling what innocent pranks might lead to serious loss on the recipients side.

Walking over to someone and farting, then leaving is not going to kill anyone.

Walking over to someone and farting, then leaving is not going to kill anyone.

I beg to differ. :laughing:

I beg to differ. :laughing:

You would hate my shop then. :laughing:

cut the tip off a plastic pen so it looks like a straw. fill it with tire paste and then hook it up to an air chuck and shoot it at someone ass when they have their back to you. it looks like a big ol cum stain. another one is to put wheel cleaner on a tire sticker and put it on someones leg. the wheel cleaner makes It super sticky. not fun to pull one of those off your leg.

Spark test, i do quality control/weldinspection in a fab shop, we'll get a new shop helper, or qc guy or whatever, one of the welders will tell the guy qc needs sparks for a spark test from a grinder, funny as hell watching the guys with a bucket following welders and such around the shop all day then hauling ass to qc before the sparks cooled down from red hot :)

Our shop manager was absurdly proud of his bronco II with the "black angus guy" mural on the door. ( you know, silhouette of a cowboy, crouched by a fire ). I had a license plate frame made that said "brokeback cowboy".
It was on his truck for six weeks, he never did notice it, one of his hunting buddies finally pointed it out.

(lawyerly disclaimer voice on) only feelings were damaged in the previous incident, no actual injury or property damage occurred. (lawyer voice off)

You would hate my shop then. :laughing:

not for long he wouldnt.... :laughing::barf:

I left his ass up there, topped out the three stage, then turned the engine off and wandered off for a smoke.


You smoke now? I know you're a fatass and all, but is this your last-ditch effort to lose weight? Isn't that a trick redneck women do? Have you considered just using crack?

Maybe smoking is part of your new Rock-n-Roll personality (http://muddyoval.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9459)? When is band practice?

Asking new guys on the job, pipefitter, to go get a pipe stretcher. OR "run over to the supply house and get a skyhook" Never seems to fail.


I always like to send newbs off with this;

"Hey, hurry up damit I need it now, go get the effin pipe stretcher, it's in the truck, it is metal, rusty w/ red paint, hurry up! (whats it look like?) I SAID HURRY UP DAMIT JUST GO GET THE DAM THING! I need it NOW or YOUR GONNA HAVE TO CLEAN UP THE MESS!! HURRY!!!~"

The real youngsters? Well we start them off w/ the ole;

"Quick! Pull my finger! I dislocated it! !!!"
Now understand I can kinda contort my middle finger so the tip points all weird and it looks like I just stubbed it. For maximum effect try to time it while in the truck, cold day with windows up. I have never laughed so hard in my life... the kid still looks at me wierd.

Now a daze, it is better to just leave people be and spend time reading quality web sites like Pirate4x4 and safety sites for spotters at YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg6GxPfU5Mg)

One fab shop I was working at had a decent mix of people, mainly hispanic welders, and white assembly techs.

One day close to quitting time I took an empty bottle of hand cleaner, and filled it to the top with heavy clear dielectric grease.

I told all my guys, the assmebly techs, when they wash their hands not to use the bottle with the black dot on top.

We all went in washed our hands and were hanging out by our boxes, one by one you could see the welders coming out of the wash room with grease smeared up their arms scrubbing like crazy trying to get that shit off.

It was funny and pretty harmless.

Job I had back in 97 doing HVAC my boss was about as not fun of an asshole as it gets. When it was slow he would make us detail all of his personal cars. One being his prized viper. We put a backup beeper on it. He couldn't do anything and ended up taking it to the dealer to get it removed. :laughing: :evil:

While working as a diesel mechanic several years ago, I had a buddy who would always prank. We worked 4 tens with 3 days off. I waited till he left for his 3-day, and put silaprene (a REALLY strong adhesive used on trailers) on the bottom of his smooth soled Redwing work boots. After three days of setup, he had to chisel them off the floor.:laughing:

Aside from the usual rubber snake in the glove box or under the seat of rangers we had one go almost bad once.

The new kid was working in by the parts cleaner sink and there was a can of carb cleaner or some other nasty chemical on the purlin right above the sink. One of the old techs got the pellet gun that we use for bird control and shot the can from across the shop. He figured it was plenty far away so it would just knock the can over and scare him. Well it punctured the can and it took off like a whirling chemical spewing bomb, spraying the kid with stuff and I think actually hitting him.

It was one of those laughing so hard that you are crying while you see if the kid is ok things.

Aside from the usual rubber snake in the glove box or under the seat of rangers we had one go almost bad once.

The new kid was working in by the parts cleaner sink and there was a can of carb cleaner or some other nasty chemical on the purlin right above the sink. One of the old techs got the pellet gun that we use for bird control and shot the can from across the shop. He figured it was plenty far away so it would just knock the can over and scare him. Well it punctured the can and it took off like a whirling chemical spewing bomb, spraying the kid with stuff and I think actually hitting him.

It was one of those laughing so hard that you are crying while you see if the kid is ok things.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Everyone should know by now that no matter how good it sounds with a BB gun involved, it will be way worse:D

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Everyone should know by now that no matter how good it sounds with a BB gun involved, it will be way worse:D

You'll shoot your eye out :laughing::laughing:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/b278/

Not quite "old timer" but we have one of these we put in peoples offices, new hires. When they find it we tell them its a bug. We usually let them freak out for about 24 hours tying to remember what they may have said then we fianlly tell them the truth.

One of the engine guys did an echo test the other day on the engines. :laughing:

One we just did is we put a rubber snake in a girls tool box and she didn't look before grabbing. She screamed bloody murder with that one. :laughing:

Can't read them all right now so hope this isn't a big R One I love is hook the horn to either the brake switch or turn signal,.. your choice.

Can't read them all right now so hope this isn't a big R One I love is hook the horn to either the brake switch or turn signal,.. your choice.

A fun one would be to swap the trailer brake wire with a blinker wire. We had a kid wire it like that accidentally and it drove us crazy thinking we had a wheel bearing going out or something.

Right turn, grab, grab, grab. We were completely clueless on WTF was going on.

Walking over to someone and farting, then leaving is not going to kill anyone.

True that, but things as extreme as an oxy-acetylene balloon as described earlier could.

Here is a link that shows the aftermath of a purported oxy-acet. balloon explosion.

http://svartalf.freeshell.org/hoaxes/forensic1.html

I heard the story very differently from someone who presented this in a safety seminar.

I understand it maimed 2 children, and supporting commentary contradicts the link.

Here's another example: Co-worker just got done cutting a piece of steel and tossed the slag in my lap (as a joke of course), and I reacted to not wanting to get burned by quickly standing up and brushing it off. (I knew I wouldn't get burned if I reacted fast enough to stand up and brush it off). No biggie, ha, ha, asshole.

What he didn't consider was the angle iron 4 feet above my head I stood up into that cost me a consiberable gash to the head, unnecessary pain for me, and a possible report to the company had I persued it.

I shined it, sucked it up and we both learned a lesson that day. I saved both of us dicslipinary action by not reporting an injury to me, and the reason for it.

Some pranks are neither free or quick, and you can't predict the outcome most of the time.

That's all I'm trying to say.

A quick squirt of brake clean to the bottom of a styrofoam coffee cup or soada cup is always funny, Eats away the styrofoam leaving a nice mess.

Heard from another wheeler.

Two Bosses bring in their dogs one day. Dogs are running around the shop frolicking.
Moral is shit, employees have quit or are trying to be let go, company is not in good health.

Next day one Boss goes out to have a smoke and there is a couple horses grazing in the lawn. He comes back in and throws a shit fit. "WHO'S FAWKING HORSES ARE OUT THERE?"
Old guy: They're mine, I thought it was ok to bring your pets to work, you did it yesterday......" :laughing:

I remember the first time P told me that story, I laughed my ass off.

not for long he wouldnt.... :laughing::barf:

Oh hell, I eat the wrong foods or combinations, I could quickly remove ANY humor of farts from the area. :laughing:

Used to work with a guy that would hook a fencer up to his tool box to keep other techs out of it. Another good one is to throw a couple extra check balls on the bench when someone is rebuilding a transmission:evil:

Walking over to someone and farting, then leaving is not going to kill anyone.

We do this to each other on a daily basis. Guy #1 is working on a panel in a small room and is pretty much stuck there. Guy #2 walks into the room and asks a mundane question, which guy #1 answers. Guy #2 leaves the room, then guy #1 is hit by the odor that would peel the paint off the walls.

One of our guys is the master at this.

I got another one of our guys with my own invention, the "ventril-o-fart". We're walking down a narrow hallway, me in front, then him, then a nice-looking saleslady in the back. I stop for a second to look at something on the ceiling (whilst unleashing the silent but deadly killer), then walk forward 5 feet and stop again, thus parking them in the cloud. She smells it and thinks he did it.

True that, but things as extreme as an oxy-acetylene balloon as described earlier could.

Here is a link that shows the aftermath of a purported oxy-acet. balloon explosion.

http://svartalf.freeshell.org/hoaxes/forensic1.html

Uh, the link you posted specifically states that that does not appear to be caused by an oxy-acetylene balloon.

The oxy-acetylene incident I posted about was done outdoors and ignited from a pretty good distance. It still wasn't a very good idea, but it was funny.

1. I used to leave my stinky work boots out side of / in front of my locker

One morning I get to work, try to put on my boots, they were Hilti gunned to the floor

2. While working out of a service truck for a mixer fleet, 1 of my fellow service truck mechanic decided it would be funny to re-route the windshield washer sprayer to the steering column w/ the nozzle pointed towards the driver, I found it the next morning about 4 am while driving to work as I hit the button, it squirts the roof and drips into my eyes

3. Same guy who did the above, (allegedly) shit in a drivers hard hat

4. Parking of the service truck up to the door of the port-o-john (I have been on both sides of this)

5. Bungee cords on the drive lines of service trucks, this one stopped when 1 guy forgot to pull the hook off of the loose end and a few hours of rewiring ensued

6. Working in a Peterbilt dealer, almost every time after an in-frame, some one would sneak up and bang on something right after the first fire up

my all time fav is filling co workers air tools with chicks perfume, then they spray that shit all over the place, and then add perfume to there to oil so they think they ar cleaning tool and getting rid of smell but making it worse. and a piece of raw meat in someones work area is an all time fav. it takes a while to kick in but once it does it is worth it.

I had my head under the cab of a 938 loader at the Tampa shop and travis came behind me and ran a wrench up the crack of my ass.

I ran up behind him and kicked him in the ass hard enough to lift his chubby ass 2 inches in the Air. Jason F. Still laughs his ass every time he hears that story. As he saw it live. My head hurt for a week.

You have to be careful. One guy at work thought he'd be funny and sneak up and surprise a coworker by beeping a scissor lift horn. He walked up to the scissor lift, reached in to push the button, and he ended up moving the joystick just enough to run the machine into the guy.

That ended up screwing up the poor guy's ankles. He spent months doing physical therapy and it ended up costing the company tens of thousands of dollars. Nice work funny guy.

Seriously, I don't mind honest jokes, but if you work in a high risk / high exposure environment, don't screw around. It might get someone hurt or killed. We hire professionals to work for us, not comedians. Save it for after hours or come up with something that doesn't involve machinery, chemicals, or damaging personal property.


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We do this to each other on a daily basis. Guy #1 is working on a panel in a small room and is pretty much stuck there. Guy #2 walks into the room and asks a mundane question, which guy #1 answers. Guy #2 leaves the room, then guy #1 is hit by the odor that would peel the paint off the walls.

Haha this sounds like the guys I work with! Some of em gas up on purpose, and let you know they're doin it! For one guy, it's broccoli, cheetos, and chocolate milk. Stay clear!

For personal calls we have a little phone booth type thing. The old favorite is to blast one off in the booth, take the phone off the hook, tell your buddy the phone is for him... once he steps inside, it's pretty easy to wedge the door shut before he realizes what's up. Then the pounding, cursing, and barfing begin while they bake in the fumes! We actually leave a chair just outside the door that's just the right height for wedging the door shut.

Haha the fart jokes never get old.

The proper term for farting and then leaving or farting as you pass someone is "cropdusting" FWIW

HOPEFULLY already posted in this thread but,


Hammer + press (or anything, really) is THE best shop prank ever. Everything else comes second.

The proper term for farting and then leaving or farting as you pass someone is "cropdusting" FWIW

Well technically cropdusting is when you walk around while you fart, to spread it out over a wide area.

Farting in a small space where people are stuck there is called the gas chamber.

I have some co workers who are experts at both of these.

MH

This thread rules

C'mon....more pranks please. Some pics would be nice

I work in engineering at a hospital and we get cocky contractors come out and do work. So an apple in the exhaust and some zip ties on the driveshaft humbles them a bit.:laughing:

I cant even tell you how many car alarms I've installed on tool boxes.. It's pretty funny to hit the panic button whenever someone opens a drawer.

A guy I worked in a muffler shop with loved to plant stuff in yourt toolbox - old apples or bananas, half a tuna sandwich, whatever... One day he finds a dead bird against the radiator in a car we're working on. He puts it in the bottom drawer of a co-worker's box. We all laughed after he found it "What the hell is that?" A week later the victim dropped a road kill cat in the other guy's box... dead animals were off limits after that one.

Our customers used to stand right in the doorway at the edge of the shop, and creep forward while you're working on the car. We'd pump some oxy-acetylene gas into the pipe and touch it off. They usually went back into the waiting room after that. If they didn't, we'd cut off the entire system with the torch, conveniently sending a spray of sparks in their general direction until they left.

Smacking the lift while the other guy is welding next to the gas tank was always a fun one too. Still makes me laugh every time.

Exhaust whistles are awesome.

This thread's a great public service of the PBB.

My door handles on my truck got packed with grease on friday at work. I remembed this old thread and now I'm loaded with ideas for revenge on monday.

Thanks PBB!

MH

I'm partial to super-gluing the lids on partially consumed plastic beverage bottles, and then planting the glue bottle in someone else's area. :laughing:

Hooking the winch cable on the D6R to the ripper on the D8T with about 20 feet of slack is pretty funny to watch when someone takes off tracking towards what they need to be working on, especially if they kick the dozer up in 2nd gear. :evil:

When I was working construction our forklift blew a hydro line and the mechanic that came to fix it switched the lines around. He and the operator had a history of about 25 years of fuckin with eachother. So left became up, down became right, out became tilt, tilt became in, etc.

I worked at Timken super precision for a number of years and had my share of pranks. I bought a squirt gun and some dollar store perfume and would give the guys that were headed to the bar a few squirts on the pantlegs. Fill the air guns with hand cream and wait for the operator to blow off their parts. I had a pin vise with a needle in it and would poke several holes in people soda bottles at the top so when they would take a drink it would dribble out onto their shirt. Wire ties on driveshafts make a SHITLOAD of noise. Send the new guy or "co-op" kid all over both plants looking for a "beryllium magnet". I would grab a handful of gauge balls and walk by the screw machine department when they were on break and throw them on the floor. Instead of turning inners and outers sometimes I would turn "quarters" to use in the vending machines. Or face off nickels and silver solder them back together so they would be double headed nickles. One time had a guy put really fine cast iron chips in a 5 gal. bucket and added water till it was a nice slurry and filled up someones work boots and put them in the freezer over a holiday weekend. Thats just a small sample and now I wonder how many people I really pissed off.

I am an email terrorist, whenever the service writers leave their computer unlocked, I'll email the parts guys from the writer's computer asking them if they want to go to the "Man Hole" to discuss life and its greater mysteries, or I'll email our really gullible retard tech and tell him that a car he just worked on is coming back with a laundry list of rattles and body complaints (he hates perception based body complaints more than anyone I know)

I'd have to say my best email prank was the one below; I emailed our service manager to his blackberry telling him that our new retarded tech fucked up. Needless to say he was not happy when he was 1/2 way to the shop when he found it it was a joke :lmao:

Jon! Jake just did brakes on a car and didn't hit the pedal before pulling out of his bay, he did a big fat burnout and slammed into the convertible behind his bay. The customers were in parts and saw the whole thing. The husband almost punched him in the face. They are not happy, you should get down here.

not sure if I posted this yet or not. Our mechanic was welding on a truck bed a while back. He's really not the best welder, so the part wasnt particularly important.

I stop by the welder and ever so slowly turn the wire speed up. He keeps welding and then stops, pulls up his hood and looks at the gun. Taps it on the truck bed a few times and attempts to weld some more with the same results.

I was trying so hard not to laugh as I had backed away from the welder at this point. My friend in the other bay is laughing and telling me how mean it was to the mechanic cause he will never figure out how to fix it.

just remembered this one. We were working on crack sealing a road, and the mechanic (we always have little battles) kept trying to push me so I would step on one of the newly sealed cracks, therefore I would get hot tar on my shoe, which is very hard to get off the soles.

I got in before him at the shop that night and got his timecard, which is a regular sized piece of paper (8.5x11) and grabbed the Stanley stapler. The kind that you would use to tack projects together and hang Christmas lights, that sorta stuff.

I stapled his time card to the wall, which this particular section was made of plywood. I went around the perimeter approx every 1/2 inch and about a dozen times spontaniously in the center.

There are little strips of yellow paper still stuck on the wall, but he got me back.

He hung my chair from the roof which is two storys up (metal building) but before doing so stuck some old birthday cake on the seat prior, and then to top it off stretch wrapped it.

We once put him up on a three stage forklift to re-aim a security camera and I left his ass up there, topped out the three stage, then turned the engine off and wandered off for a smoke.

Don't have a coronary PTSchram! More descriptions of irresponsible behavior to follow:

Summer job in HS I was a loader/helper at a lumber/building materials yard.

First day, one of the other loaders had me stand on the end of the forks holding a LARGE Bay Window "to keep it from tipping forward".
There really was enough room for me to be on the forks to the balls of my feet.

He proceeded to raise the lift up as high as it would go and leave me there for a few minutes. :eek: It was not fun, but was funny afterward.

When I was a newbie driving the lifts the other guys used to put the pallets of glass blocks all the way up on the highest shelf, have them all loaded on the pallet really loose, and then tell me to go pull the pallet for an order. :flipoff2:


Fields service job, we would all meet with our work vans at a shop pretty much daily.

A nice bead of Clear grease across the top edge of your windshield wiper blades brought the funny. :laughing:

a few wraps of black e-tape around WW blades also brings the funny.

We would print out LARGE porn pics, sometimes gay porn, and attach them under the rear bumper, in a way that they would drop down and hang for ALL to see as you drove around. :p
Some guys would go ALL DAY without noticing.

A magnetic pink triangle and a magnetic rainbow made the rounds quite a bit.

We would bungee cord the cargo doors on the back of guys trucks or vans, so that when you opened it and let go it would snap back and get ya.

All totally irresponsible, wrong, morally and legally corrupt actions that brought the funny numerous times.

At work we have these two flags ,about the size of the marking flags you would use to mark water lines and stuff. When were out on a job with a green horn we will give him the flags and tell him we need to calibrate the sheaves. We tell him to raise his left hand when the bottom sheave turns once and raise his right hand when the top sheave turns twice. We start out slow and start picking up speed until they cant keep up ,but being new they try to keep up anyway .... FUNNAY!

BTW I work in wireline ,sheaves are pullys.

When I was a framer the big gag was to nail a guys bags to the floor during break or lunch. Most of our crew would stand in front of their bags and knee down to grab and pull them up, being nailed down you would usually fallover backwards when the bags didn't move.

When I did auto body the biggie was go take the valve stems out of all four tires and walk up and hand them to the person who's car was now missing them. We hard to park about a 3/4 to half block away so you couldn't just run an air hose out to refill them.

At the ship yard were I work there is a tool department that has all the tools that we are not required to have in our tool bags. You get a tool and a marker with your number goes on the tools hook/shelve/drawer to keep track of who has what. Its all over the counter so no one can take tools without being handed them and those tools assigned to him.

I got the new tool guy at work today. This kid is 17, very enthusiastic and eager to learn. There are a lot of people on summer leave around this time, the old timer tool guy being one of them so the kid was alone.

I walked up to the counter and asked for a set of screwdriver bits. He got that for me and asked if I needed anything else. Here is how the conversation went:

Me: Yeah I need a 15mm tube and pipe stretcher.

Him: What is that?

Me: I´m laying some pipes for hydro systems and we made a mistake. It's for stretching pipes and tubes that are not quite long enough. You usually get 4-6mm out of every meter of un-stretched pipe. It is great for those times that a cut has been made on the wrong side of the mark or when you need to tweak the layout of the pipes a bit.

Him: What does it look like?

Me: It has a jaw on one end that is conical and another jaw that you put on the pipe and clamp down. There are 2 threaded bars with gears on the end that are driven by an electric motor, those take care of the stretching. Its around 1.5 meters (4´10") long and orange.

Him: You know where they keep it?

Me: No, its in the back somewhere, I never see where they go to get it. They have two of 'em in there somewhere.

Him: Ok I´ll go look.

Kid goes in the back and searches for 3 minutes. I could hear him moving stuff around and opening closets and shelves.

Him: I can't find it. Are you sure they're not just both being used now?

Me: No I´m not sure, but hey were both here this morning. I returned one yesterday and were the only crew working on hydro today.

Him: Ok, wait here I'm going to talk to the hardware department manager, he might know where it is.

Me. Ok, no problem.

The hardware guy comes laughing back and tells me that he'd never heard of a tube stretcher before but he had heard of a plank stretcher and cans of vacuum.

When I worked at the prison, there was a black midget, and whenever new cadets worked the run he was on, they always got sent down to his cell to look at the baby armadillo he had caught and kept in a little box, Every time I hear that song "dick in a box" now I think of that fucker :laughing:

When I worked at the prison, there was a black midget, and whenever new cadets worked the run he was on, they always got sent down to his cell to look at the baby armadillo he had caught and kept in a little box, Every time I hear that song "dick in a box" now I think of that fucker :laughing:

YouTube - ‪Saturday Night Live - Dick In A Box‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg)

I'm the night production control officer for an Aviation Battalion over here in Afghanistan. being on nights, I have lot's of time on my hands. From time to time I like to prank on the guys. Here are a few.

Guys order parts all the time and we they show up he will pick his parts up in Tech Supply. My Company Commander always gets excited when he gets something in. With that in mind, I set him up one day. I found a nice box that was about 8x8 inches and had my sheet metal guys cut 2 metal plates that were the same size as the box opening. I attached the 2 plates together with a strong spring, making my own jack in the box. I put the set up in the box, pushed it down and loaded about 50 tampons on the top plate and closed the box. The look on his face was priceless when he opened the box and 50 tampons shot all over the place.

My computer tech is a constant coffee drinker and will grab his coffee cup as soon as he comes in. With this in mind, I took about 50 sheets of paper and scotch taped them to each other so they formed a big accordian. I then glued his cup to the top piece of paper. When he came in, he grabbed his cup and started walking accross the room to the coffee pot. Ofcourse a big pile of papers stretched accross the room as he went. Again, the look on his face was priceless.

My last one was done to my tech supply NCO. He always went to the chow hall before he came to work and grabbed a "to go" plate. He would have the main plate, a couple of different fruits, 2 juices and 2 milks. One morning he got called away right as he sat down to eat. I took this as an opportunity and wrapped each of his items with plastic and drilled them all to the ceiling. I then left a note with a clue, to another clue as to the location of his food. In total there were 6 clues and the drama went on for nearly and hour before he started screaming "where the fuck is my food" I asked him what the last clue said and he read it. "look to the skies to find the enlightment you seek" He looked up and found his food. He didn't talk to me for 3 days.

There have been lot's of other jokes, but most are not as well set up.

Good thread.


I'm not much of a jokster. best I will do is hot wire your horn on or maybe your wipers to come on with the key.


But my dad is KING jokster!


He always has something up his sleeve. His best one lately.






My dad is a Foreman for a large construction company. He and his carpenter buddy were working on the punch out list. We were the only general contractors there the rest were all sub contractors.


They had to dig up some balusters that needed moved 6".

So I pulled them all out with the back hoe and dug a trench for the balusters. Then we set them all up and poured concrete back in the ditch.

balusters are pipes put In the ground to keep cars from hitting things. They had been put in by digging holes and pouring a pier around them. We pulled them out then re set the whole thing concrete slug and all and re poured the whole ditch around them.



So now we are standing there with a ditch full of concrete at grade level. My dad :idea:


He takes his shovel and starts shoveling clean rock over the creet so that it looks like undisturbed soil.


Hilarity ensues :laughing:


He got a lot of guys that day all could have their own story behind them, mostly friends or smart asses that really deserved it but one particular.:laughing:






This smart ass little electrician apprentice. The deal with them is they get the scrap wire for beer money. and this one was a real pain in the ass. He would throw a shit fit if he seen you picking up wire claiming it as his own.



Well the old man seen him coming and jumped the ditch pulled a big chunk of wire out of his back pocket and started stripping it.:mr-t:

When the kid walked by dad yelled "hey kid tell your boss thanks for the wire!"


Dude got instantly :mad3: and power walked strait in to the ditch. He was waist deep before he even knew what happened.:laughing::laughing::laughing:



Kid was so pissed he couldn't talk. Made way worse that his boss and all other electricians came walking by right about that time. They were all ROLLIN! My old man was dieing:laughing::laughing: I ended up picking him out with the back hoe.


Ahh good times.

when I was in Iraq my platoon sergeant was busy around lunch time and asked me to get him some lunch while I was there. I got him a lettuce and mayo sandwich with extra mayo. He was pissed :laughing:

A guy I used to work with told me at an old job of his they had an issue with someone stealing donuts. So they decided to bait the guy with a jelly donut filled with Dykem Hispot.
This stuff. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/75bigchief/image_164.jpg
It is very blue and jelly like. They said they new who was stealing the donuts immediately because his mouth was stained blue. It lasted a couple days from what I was told.

I worked as an electrician's apprentice in my early twenties. Worked with a bunch of old guys that knew every trick in the book. Was learning my switch house wiring and we had some really big label makers. Everyone was always making a sticker that said "gay and proud" or something similar and putting them on each others trucks as bumper stickers. I made one that said "I like young boys" and put it on one of the older guys trucks. He stopped at a McDonalds somewhere in east Tennessee and kept getting funny looks. He got through eating and went to his truck, as soon as he got in his truck a patrol car came and blocked him in, they questioned him and all kinds of shit. He came in to work on Monday ready to kill me, literally, he was pissed. i got props from all the other old timers for the best sticker ever. Work was really fun back then.

Pricky 7!

Always get the new privates to ask the PLT SGT for a pricky 7 (prick E-7).

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I made a bumper sticker that said "child molester" and stuck it on the little panel between the rear bumper and the tailgate on a guys truck once. He quit before he figured it out......never got to see the reaction.:(

not sure if I posted this yet or not. Our mechanic was welding on a truck bed a while back. He's really not the best welder, so the part wasnt particularly important.

I stop by the welder and ever so slowly turn the wire speed up. He keeps welding and then stops, pulls up his hood and looks at the gun. Taps it on the truck bed a few times and attempts to weld some more with the same results.

I was trying so hard not to laugh as I had backed away from the welder at this point. My friend in the other bay is laughing and telling me how mean it was to the mechanic cause he will never figure out how to fix it.

Rpage 4:flipoff2:

A while back I had a new boss try to mess with me by putting dried dog shit in my tool box, I found it, knew who did it, and put it in his lunch box.:evil:
No more playing with poop allowed:laughing:

Shir just remember another, we started doing insurance jobs, my boss accidentally cut electrical wires before they were labeled(we thought they were all coming out) electrician whines and bitches for about three days.:shaking:
Next job were on we find a monster dildo, grab some romex(this time
it was all getting stripped:laughing:) and wire it up under his truck.
It stayed there for three days, the guy who finally saw was a rather well known contractor that noticed on saturday.:evil:
Pics to follow if anyone doubts me:flipoff2:

I removed the tungsten from a tig torch and replaced it with sharpend piece if aluminum wire. hit the pedal and the shit balls up pretty violently

Removed the back of a co workers locker and welded the door shut from the back side so he couldnt see the weld. reinstalled the back of the locker.

Printed a bumper sticker for a co worker adn used package tape to install in on his rear bumper. It said " I like little boys: with a nice rainbow on both ends. Took him 4 days to figure out why everyone was giving him shitty looks at stoplights.

Removed the tail light covers from my bosses old firebird. Used electrical tape to write " I like cock" on the inside. When he hit the brake the message lit up to anyone following him.

The old tired zip ties on the driveshaft, car moves and the zip ties start hitting shit making all kinds of noises.

Had a guy standing on a stand working on a helo. I used yellow paint pen to write FAG on the back of both his boots. he walked around all day gettin called fag, Didnt figure it out till later when he was sittin at home watching TV. Noticed his boots sittin by the door.

Turn off the preopane on the aircraft tow tractor adn then send a new guy out on the flight line on the tractor to get something ( runs out of gas)

Used expanding foam in a guys locker , All his shit inside wrapped in a plastic bag to pretect it. Open the door and your locker is solid foam.

Put shoe polish on the headband of welding helmets, Thats always a good one.


Shit I do this stuff daily i am certain I have alot more. Just cant think of anything else right now.

U put old workboots in both the stalls at work one day and closed the doors. Everyone went in to crap and saw the boots under the doors adn thought they were occupied. It was after lunch before someone figured out they were just boots, Not people in the stalls.


Screwed a full can of sardines to the bottom of a PIA supervisors desk behind the drawer. He cleaned his office out several times trying to find what was stinkin.


Sent to new guy to the admin department to get an ID 10 T form ( IDIOT)

Had a new guy talked into tuning the radar on a helocopter one day. had him wrapped in aluminum foil doing jumping jacks on the flight line in front of an aircraft.

Step outside the bosses window and fart into the intake of the window unit.

Black shoe polish on the earpiece of their phone.


Super glue to phone to the base and call him over and over.


go around the base and forward every phone to your supervisors number. Always funny

Superglue someone work boots to the floor before their shift.

Run a wire from the trailer plug on the brake lead to the horn. Step on the brake and the horn goes off. Works for the blinker too.


We put a backup alarm on the bosses truck before he went on a hot date, Backing out of the steak house and the alarm starts beeping.

After making coffee put a big ass dead bug in the coffee filter right on top of the grounds. Everyone that has been drinking coffee thinks its been there from when the coffee was brewed. They usually find it after teh first pot of coffe has been emptied.

Glue thier coffee mug to the desk.

HS wrestling coash was an ass. We lowered the spare tire down on his dodge, Laid trashbags in it to lay several dead fish in the wheel. Raised the tire back up . It was the middle of summer in Oklahoma. His truck stank like hell for about a week.





Awe hell I can do this for hours on end.

Get an apprentice to hang out by an electrical panel with a bucket waiting to catch voltage drops.

Asking new guys on the job, pipefitter, to go get a pipe stretcher. OR "run over to the supply house and get a skyhook" Never seems to fail.

Send him to the wharehouse and tell him to ask for a long-weight.
And no, I didn't read the whole thread yet, so it it's an R then meh.

HS wrestling coash was an ass. We lowered the spare tire down on his dodge, Laid trashbags in it to lay several dead fish in the wheel. Raised the tire back up . It was the middle of summer in Oklahoma. His truck stank like hell for about a week.

:smokin:

send the newbie off to get a bucket of A.I.R
or a 8" raping tool

turn off the propane on the forklift while in use, usually dies in 30 seconds.

i had a guy at work always parking in the way, so i picked up the back of his truck with the forklift and put some blocks of wood under the axle right next to the tires.
it lifted the tires about a 1/2" off the ground and he thought the tranny was done..

Grease inside glove fingers. Bucket of water on ceiling fan blades. Staple coverall legs closed.

Everyone, except for one person, at work is a joker.

All new guys bring donuts.

We make sure to get the newbies thinking something is different that it is. (For example, everyone has to be introduced to the board of directors. We'll tell them that one guy has Marti Feldman eyes. Don't don't look at the eyes. That director hates it when you stare at his eyes.)

Grease under the door handles to someone's truck.

Blocking someone in by pulling up to their bumpers at both ends. (Best with service trucks when blocking a 1/2 ton truck.

Saying Bssst, when someone's working on an electrical panel.

Old school air blow gun (non-osha approved).

Clamp 3/8" fuel line to the business end of the blow gun.

Go to parts and get a box of 168 or 194 bulbs.

Those bulbs shove into 3/8" fuel hose very nicely.

Great thread.
My dad told me of one good one they used to do.
Take a paper towel center tube.
Tape a picture of a scantily clad female to one end, so you have to look through the tube to view it.
Take a #2 pencil and run it around the edge of the other end.

Yes you guessed it. Rings around the peoples eyes that have looked through it.

For people that don't know a lot about computers, you can take the task bar a the bottom and move it to the top. That gets them for a few minutes.

I think I will try the magnetic rainbow on a few of the guys here.

u can take the task bar a the bottom and move it to the top. That gets them for a few minutes.



Catch someone away from their computer.
Screenshot their desktop and save it as an image.
Set the screenshot as their wallpaper.
Right click their desktop and uncheck "show desktop icons".
Watch them try to figure out why their computer doesn't work.

Old people suck

Catch someone away from their computer.
Screenshot their desktop and save it as an image.
Set the screenshot as their wallpaper.
Right click their desktop and uncheck "show desktop icons".
Watch them try to figure out why their computer doesn't work.


That's hilariously cruel....I love it! :laughing:

a little dash of PVC primer in the coffee of the new guy is always good

Catch someone away from their computer.
Screenshot their desktop and save it as an image.
Set the screenshot as their wallpaper.
Right click their desktop and uncheck "show desktop icons".
Watch them try to figure out why their computer doesn't work.



That's hilariously cruel....I love it! :laughing:

Really? :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:

I think this prank has been around since 3.11

We went by a co-workers house to shrink wrap/plastic wrap his car late one night... the big grocery store was closed so we went to a little corner store. They did not have plastic wrap... we looked all around for something... anything... and then we saw it...

(larry asks josh) "Hey - are'nt maxi pads sticky on one side???" Oh... and they were alright!

Two 24 packs of maxi pads later, our mild mannered co-worker had a nicely decorated company car the moring before he was suppose to go pick up the big boss and some newly hired employee's to go to a training class!

He was about 30 minutes late picking everyone up. He got the maxi's off but the sticky stuff still remained. The boss asked "Jason, what are these little spots of sticky stuff all over the car? I mean, its every where! Even on the hub caps?"

To top it off... it was about 6 months before we told him it was us! He kept telling us the story and thought it was the neighbor kids! When we finally told him it was us, he said he always wondered why we would laugh so hard when he talked about it.... ????

Really? :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:

I think this prank has been around since 3.11

Yes it has, but there's always a fresh crop of noobs who will fall for it :flipoff2:

Really? :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:

I think this prank has been around since 3.11We used to write log in scripts to copy their whole structure to a tar on the mainframe, then delete everything leaving just the original log in script. "You what? Are you sure you used the right login?".

The best is when someone would hand you a deck and ask you to be extra careful because it's their "whoeverinthefuckcares" project. I always had a buch of extra cards around I'd swap when they were distracted. Alright, here it goes,.. CRAP! and drop them just 1/2 of them. "Well at least you numbered them,.. you DID number them?" They never did,.. the first time.

in for the subscribe and new ideas...

We had a retirement ceremony one day in our bay, and before hand during the practice, I went over to one of the training munitions and started hitting it with a rubber mallet. A girl came over, and asked what I was doing. I simply replied that I was re-seating the fuze so it didn't accidentally arm again. :laughing: She looked like she was about to shit herself.

Another thing we do is wait til someone has hydro or something on their hands, and tell them a spider is on their head.

Our last really good one, was a guy left his ID card in the computer, and someone taped a picture of a penis over the picture, and returned it to him. He then tried driving through the base gate with it like that. :laughing:

Oh, god.....that reminds of a story, from an acquaintance of mine from England.

He works as a high end medical imaging specialist, designing hardware, software, etc. He carries a picture of his brain in his wallet. Anyway, at the time, his boss was a miserable jackass, always complaining that Dermot was jetting around the world, working on all of the other systems while he's stuck at home in Oxford. His boss managed to wangle his way onto an inspection trip to Germany, went out and bought himself a new suit, and tries to lord this over Dermot.

Who really just doesn't give a shit. Anyway, his boss leaves the lab where Dermot is busy, and leaves his briefcase there for a bit. Did I mention that he was leaving for the airport in a little bit? And the briefcase was locked? Not for long in a medical imaging lab......

Dermot and his pal load up the briefcase with all sorts of stuff, competitor's literature, etc. Hey, what's this? His *PASSPORT*....... they found a picture of an incredibly ugly orangutan, and pasted it over his passport picture. His boss comes back, grabs the briefcase and heads for the airport.

And while he's waiting in line at Customs, he's being his usual arrogant ass. Supposedly, German Customs agents have no sense of humor..... when he hand over his passport, rather loudly complaining about how long it's taking and how inefficient this all is, the agent looks at the picture, looks up at him, back at the picture, starts to smirk, elbows his partner, they both break out laughing, he hands back the passport and says "Enjoy your stay in Germany." Finally, his boss looks at the passport picture and blows a gasket. And stays pissed off for the rest of the trip.

When he got back home, he did not go straight to his off, but went hunting for Dermot, who was nowhere to be found, fortunately.



Wait for it......


When he does get back to his office, he finds an internal memo announcing an office restructuring. His position has now changed.

He reports to Dermot.

I love a good, harmless prank. The more clever the better. However one shop i worked at for a bit had two guys that would have lug nut fights with each other. Pretty much just standing on opposite sides of the shop throwing lug nuts back and forth. I didn't really find the humor in it.

I love a good, harmless prank. The more clever the better. However one shop i worked at for a bit had two guys that would have lug nut fights with each other. Pretty much just standing on opposite sides of the shop throwing lug nuts back and forth. I didn't really find the humor in it.

When I was in the foundry, the mechanics would have these "bolt" fights too.

One day, one of the mechanics was asleep after lunch at the table in the mechanics area. Well you KNOW there is an overhead jib crane in the mechanics area and he just happened to have his safety harness on. Well they silently hooked the crane up to his harness and lifted him just enough so he couldn't get out. Not hardly off the floor. :laughing:

When I was a service tech for a printing press mfg, we would always put the old parts in the other guys tool box - our tool boxes weighed 70Lbs. plus. He usually found them at the next job.

My boss, Harold, just bought a new set of Snapon wrenches, Terry, the other mechanic, proceeded to engrave TLE on my boss's new wrenches - TLE = Terrance Leroy Ellis. Harold was pissed!

We put a sticker on one of our crews truck that said "Vernon Police take it in the a$$" We worked in that city for 3 weeks :D

One tech pissed off the maintenance guy at a plant and they installed a zerk fitting on his box and pumped it full of grease.


The most fun was when I was working at a gas station just out of high school. The local drug dealers would hang out by the pay phones and wait for a call to make their deals. We would take bearing grease and put it on the phone hand sets. We would call and watch the fun as thay got pissed - for some reason they never figured it out.

But the guy in the black truck goes to lunch next. Actually in about 25 minutes :D

http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy261/HoShorts/Parking.jpg

Right on

Didn't get quite the reaction I had hoped for, he just laughed about it :D

I need to come up with something good :pinky:

My friends learned not to do that to me when I used drive-by-braille to get out from between their cars :laughing:

We used to set off stinkbombs outside friend's windows, preferably right by the air conditioner.

(this only really works on leather or natural fiber laces) dip the loops of a guy's boot laces in a jar of battery acid while he's under a truck. If he pranked you last, paint it down the crossed laces all the way to the arch of the boot too. 20 minutes later they'll disintegrate.

One I learned from my grandfather: charge up ignition condensers and toss em to people. Natural instinct is to catch a thrown object so you can usually get people a few times. When they stop catching em, toss small lightbulbs. This isn't as easy anymore with fuel injection being so common...

pile grease on a guy's boot toes from the pit while he's working under the hood of the same car. won't notice for hours. Also works with rainbow stickers, magnets, etc if they are steel toes.

Stick those little 'pop pop snapper' packets to the bottoms of someone's boots. Sometimes they don't go off well, sometimes they do.

Piss on someone's tires before a wheeling trip. Even better if they have beadlocks :laughing:

print off a decent copy of the labeling from a can of brakleen, really just has to be mostly the right color scheme. Wrap around a can of WD40 and tape carefully. Got this idea when a friend accidentally grabbed WD40 instead of brakleen to clean his hands... 5sec later he's going "this is a lot greasier than I remembered" and we're all on the ground laughing.

Hot sauce packet under the toliet seat. Fold it in half and tape it to the base of the seat. Poor dude sits down and blows hot sauce all over his nuts and ass.

Or if you don't like someone. A little mace on a roll of TP.

There are a bunch of small offices in my building full of cubes. A new fa-breeze can and a zip tie makes a nice 'gernade' to toss into an office. Most of these people don't carry a knife or anything that would readily cut a decent sized zip-tie. I wonder if they will ever figure out that I did it.

I should read back through and see if I posted this already....

But in 88 I started trade school. It was cooperative education. One quarter at school, one quarter in the GM dealership.

Carburetors were still plentiful. I worked in tune/elec. We would keep spart parts from carbs that had been junked and leave a random spring or the needle-and-seat on a guys workbench right after he buttoned down the lid and set the choke by the factory (magnetic choke angle gauge and vacuum pump on the choke pull-off) procedure.

We had a guy at work who weighed about 350. His wife put him on a diet.
After about 3 days he came to work without his lunch box.

He was busy in the back when his wife brought his luch box that "he forgot." One of the hams at work grabbed a sandwich bag and put in dry dog food from the guard dogs feed bag.

We were sitting in the shade about lunch time when he came out to eat. He opens his box, started digging around and came out with the bag of dog food.

He said "What does this look like to you?" everyone was slow on replying "well it looks like dog food. He said "Damn sure does me too" he took off to the phone to call his wife. Course we had to tell him before he lost his happy home.

Theres always a ton of pranks going on in our shop, but I definitely have an all time fav. Hearing that a coworker had an extremely jealous wife a buddy of mine filled his air tools with perfume, first pull of the trigger in the morning and it was on. Covered in it. Man, was he pissed, and had his wife come in to talk to my buddy and tried to get him to apoligize.

We've epoxy'd guys roll around toolboxes to the wall on friday afternoon. That makes monday mornings interesting.

Also, the always popular, putting their vehicle on craigslist for a rediculous amount. We had a guy one day answer 10 calls after lunch for his 09 tahoe "divorce must sell" for 6k. He freaked the hell out.

Many more I'll have to think of!

Seeing as how "cresent" wrenches usually have markings on one side sayin inch, and the other marked millimeters. We used to and still do at times send people looking for metric cresent wrenches, and all they seem to be able to find is guys with standards.

In aviation, it was fun to ask the new guys to go get some prop wash.

That and the elusive aluminum magnet.

A few weeks ago I shot six #4 rivets into a piece of .040 sheet metal and got the backs as flat as possible. I stuck some double sided tape on the back and pressed it reeeeaaaallll flat over the top of my teacher's flush-mounted lock on his 2 year old Mac toolbox.

He wasn't too happy but he took it well when it was over. We just had to watch him to be sure that he didn't try to drill out the rivets.


http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6168/6238922761_714d3d040f_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/42403858@N03/6238922761/)

Brand new co-pilot fresh out of training on her first overseas mission. Started with an open can of tuna under her seat. Next leg was an 8-hour drag across the Atlantic. Coiled up a tie-down chain and put it under her seat cushion. She constantly complained how uncomfortable the seat was. Finished up by filling her luggage with the same chains. Good times.

In class the other day, we had a substitute instructor. He was laughing to himself, and he wouldn't tell us what another instructor did that was so funny. Said we have to ask him ourselves.

Next class, we have the instructor, and we ask him what he did that was so funny. After some persuading, he finally asked us if we saw that blond chick that walks the halls.
Of course we did, it's trade's school.
Finally says, "Well I walked into the office and asked the same thing, if they seen the horse face out there. I'd dangle a carrot in front of her face and ride it all day."
We start laughing, but he keeps going, "There was a guy out my way that was just charged for that stuff. You must have to get a little stool or something so you can get up in there."

At this point, the class is just in hysterics. The instructor didn't think it was that funny a joke, until a guy walks in the room and pulls up the projector screen exposing this (http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3912/instructorprank.png) on the marker board.

Only thing missing was the dangling carrot.

shutting the propane off on forkilfts is a common one at work. my boss always takes the tank all the way off and flips a nut when he realizes its full

shutting the propane off on forkilfts is a common one at work. my boss always takes the tank all the way off and flips a nut when he realizes its full

Yep thats funny when dude is moving a big load right before the break bell rings too. Bell goes off and everybody starts moving to the parking lot and you hear the forklift sputter and die followed by a "God dammit muther fuckers!"

That and we do touch up spraying on 5 tons and MRAPS. We spray a lot of green and black CARC. The labels slip right off the top of the cans if you're careful. Swapping labels brings the funny.

This one I did not too long abo. Guy always drinks from those Liter water bottles with the pop top. I noticed that when he drank he's tilt the bottle up and squeeze, shooting a stream into his mouth. One day while he was away from his box I took a pick and popped maybe 10 small holes near the cap on the bottle. We were outside in the smoke pit during break bs'ing with a few other guys and he tilts the bottle up and squeezed. Hilarity ensued. :laughing:

i work for a pump rental company so when we lay out by-pass sewer lines and come up a few ft short ill send guys for the pipe stretcher, we've sent guys to get pump priming fluid i had a guy tear apart our parts room looking for it. we do alot of by pass work for pipe reliner companies so if im standing over the manhole and they ask me for a knife ill drop mine in and yell blade out when they go to catch it. put random and nasty shit in pump ends so when they reach in to check impeller tolerences they get something on there hands or freak out. we ziptied a big plastic dick to the front of a guys truck. turn the wirefeed on the welder to max, turn the gas off so they have to grind it all down and restart

o and its not a prank or anything but when i see someone having a hard time doing something and keep getting pissed about it ill ask them when there done fucking around if they could fix what there working on.

my buddies dad worked in a grocery store which had a drinking fountain like this
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z373/fitchd/drinkingfountain.jpg

well one day they told the new kid to refill it. Said they watched him pour about 100 buckets of water into it before he caught on.:laughing:

my buddies dad worked in a grocery store which had a drinking fountain like this
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z373/fitchd/drinkingfountain.jpg

well one day they told the new kid to refill it. Said they watched him pour about 100 buckets of water into it before he caught on.:laughing:

:laughing:

http://youtu.be/q23-3HhhlxU

This stuff is ground bentonite, or clay for the layman. Really slick.

on a side not, how the fuck do you embed a video, my goggle-fu is lacking today.