I worked for construction company and we had a lughead start with us who had no common sense, a welder was annoyed with him one day and asked him to grab a garbage bag and take “air samples” of the welding gases that came off the arc by waving the bag around and then run it back to our staging area down the road for testing.
In the first restaurant I worked in they had a bunch of shit to send the new kids into the basement to look for, including:
The electric bacon stretcher
A lobster gun
Left handed sauté pans
Sometimes they’d get a guy down there and lock him in, and make him climb up the stock conveyor. And when you’d get about halfway up theyd start rolling onions down at you.
When i worked at McDonald’s we sent one of the newb 15 yr olds into the freezer to get ice mix, the ice maker was low. He spent 20 minutes hunting for it.
Every now and again I’ll see these types of workplace pranks and smile because I know it was built off of a genuine knowledge and appreciation of the person(s) being pranked.
And then there’s this. I just ended up bummed out.
In the Navy we passed through the straight of Gibraltar on an aircraft carrier on night. It was explained to me and another new guy that there was a massive electrical cable going from Africa to Europe there and that it hung low enough that there was a danger that adventurous monkeys could leap from the cable onto the ship and cause problems. They told us to show up at midnight for “monkey watch”.
I figured it was bullshit and didn’t show up, but the other guy did. The next morning I asked him what happened and he said they gave him night vision goggles and a bat and he just walked around the deck all night looking for monkeys. I kind of wished I’d shown up, because it sounded fun…
What?
When you get paid by the hour…
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Vampires
I worked for construction company and we had a lughead start with us who had no common sense, a welder was annoyed with him one day and asked him to grab a garbage bag and take “air samples” of the welding gases that came off the arc by waving the bag around and then run it back to our staging area down the road for testing.
Why not count half then multiply by 2.
10 feet of chow line.
Military be like:
I need you to grab me the two-tone spray paint for the forklifts… Should be yellow and black-I think it was right next to the muffler bearings
Obviously set to this task by the Terrible Trivium (see The Phantom Tollbooth).
State job
Make someone tighten the hook on the over head crain
When asked to give a mechanic a crescent wrench, I always ask “Metric or Imperial?”
A metric adjustable wrench
When I worked for Domino’s we’d send a new driver to the store for a dough repair kit for the holes that formed whilst shaping a crust.
Don’t forget the Smoke Bender
Sky hook
In the first restaurant I worked in they had a bunch of shit to send the new kids into the basement to look for, including:
The electric bacon stretcher
A lobster gun
Left handed sauté pans
Sometimes they’d get a guy down there and lock him in, and make him climb up the stock conveyor. And when you’d get about halfway up theyd start rolling onions down at you.
1970’s USAF computer room – “empty the bit bucket”
Me, at my grandma’s house, cleaning rice for my cousin’s wedding.
When i worked at McDonald’s we sent one of the newb 15 yr olds into the freezer to get ice mix, the ice maker was low. He spent 20 minutes hunting for it.
Fairies when you chuck a good handful of salt on the ground
Every now and again I’ll see these types of workplace pranks and smile because I know it was built off of a genuine knowledge and appreciation of the person(s) being pranked.
And then there’s this. I just ended up bummed out.
In the Navy we passed through the straight of Gibraltar on an aircraft carrier on night. It was explained to me and another new guy that there was a massive electrical cable going from Africa to Europe there and that it hung low enough that there was a danger that adventurous monkeys could leap from the cable onto the ship and cause problems. They told us to show up at midnight for “monkey watch”.
I figured it was bullshit and didn’t show up, but the other guy did. The next morning I asked him what happened and he said they gave him night vision goggles and a bat and he just walked around the deck all night looking for monkeys. I kind of wished I’d shown up, because it sounded fun…
Easiest overtime ever.