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cdnhollywood
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 Posted: 01/20/06 - 16:03 Post subject: Your best workplace prank
Thanks akern. I'd call you, but I wouldn't want you to wet yourself. 
Let's hear it -- your best prank at work.
Mine was when I worked at a powerplant. We wrapped everything in his office with heatshrink, then wrapped it all together in heatshrink. Pens, chair, desk, plant, phone - everything all in one tight, waterproof plastic wrap. It took him the entire workday to get it all freed.
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j1miller
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Posted: 01/20/06 - 16:19 Post subject:
I really like to take the balls out of the mice and hide them.....
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thegman
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Posted: 01/20/06 - 17:22 Post subject:
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gretriever
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Posted: 01/20/06 - 17:25 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | | I really like to take the balls out of the mice and hide them..... |
You didn't tell us you were a veterinarian.
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jrjo
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Posted: 01/20/06 - 17:27 Post subject:
While working at a resort, we'd watch the golf pro from the lodge and whenever he'd start flirting with some pretty female customers, we'd call the golf shack and watch him trot off to answer the phone. Of course, we'd hang up before he got there. He'd trot back and we'd call again. and again. By then, the girls would have teed up and gone. Ha.. poor sap never realized we foiled his summer of trolling for dates. 
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 01/20/06 - 17:29 Post subject:
I worked in a factory and we made new guys go look for the "Henway" to do a certain job.
There was no such thing.
We'd just send them from one end of the plant to another asking different people for it. Until they would ask "What's a henway?"
We would answer "oh, usually a couple of pounds."
Hen? Weigh?
get it?
You'd be surprised how long people will go around asking for things, that they have no idea what they are.
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 01/20/06 - 17:33 Post subject:
once put the rabbit fur from a munched up cat toy over one of those micro R/C cars
put it under one of the project manager's desk. When she came into her cube the sorta rodent looking thing came charging out.
She was not amused!
of course in High School there was the snake and the inside of the girls bathroom door ...
and there was the saran wrap on the seat of the ladies side of the out house ...
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Posted: 01/20/06 - 17:40 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | While working at a resort, we'd watch the golf pro from the lodge and whenever he'd start flirting with some pretty female customers, we'd call the golf shack and watch him trot off to answer the phone. Of course, we'd hang up before he got there. He'd trot back and we'd call again. and again. By then, the girls would have teed up and gone. Ha.. poor sap never realized we foiled his summer of trolling for dates. |
my g/f would love that...
at the golf course we'd be victimized by baby powder bombs - shoes being completely mixed up - and all kinds of other hour long clean up efforts.
at my hortons we were content to feed disinformation to our coworkers - and irritate them by punching in a million order dividing lines.
at my current job (and ya'll should write this down) - when someones computer is in "locked" mode - add a few spaces at the end of their login name. they'll type in their password over and over and have no idea what's happened... (my programmers were disappointed when i rebooted after 3 tries )
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akern
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Posted: 01/20/06 - 17:46 Post subject:
| coachmarkos wrote: | I worked in a factory and we made new guys go look for the "Henway" to do a certain job.
There was no such thing.
We'd just send them from one end of the plant to another asking different people for it. Until they would ask "What's a henway?"
We would answer "oh, usually a couple of pounds."
Hen? Weigh?
get it?
You'd be surprised how long people will go around asking for things, that they have no idea what they are. |
We used to send the newbie's around looking for the key to the basement. 
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robp
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 00:10 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | coachmarkos wrote: | I worked in a factory and we made new guys go look for the "Henway" to do a certain job.
There was no such thing.
We'd just send them from one end of the plant to another asking different people for it. Until they would ask "What's a henway?"
We would answer "oh, usually a couple of pounds."
Hen? Weigh?
get it?
You'd be surprised how long people will go around asking for things, that they have no idea what they are. |
We used to send the newbie's around looking for the key to the basement. |
Back in the days pre-CAD we sent the rookies looking for the "paper stretcher". You couldn't make a drawing until the paper was stretched correctly ya know...
Graphite powder from the pencil sharpener on the mouth piece of the phone left a nice black circle on the users mouth....
Prior to the smoking ban, on occasion I would painstakingly steal a cigarette from a co-oinkers pack of smokes, very carefully remove the tobacco and refill it with finely chopped rubber bands and then tap a little tobacco back into the end of it. It was quite a feat to pull it off w/o wrinking the paper. Man it stunk to high hell when they'd light one of those nasty things up....
Other fun pranks... smoke a rank stogie down and then hide the butt in a co-oinkers desk....
Steal a feminine hygiene napkin, cover it in ketchup and mustard and sneak into favorite idiots top desk drawer....
I could go on....
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akern
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 10:40 Post subject:
Hours and hours of entertainment were spent poking holes in the tops of peoples soda cans. Everybody walked around with soda stains on the front of their shirts.
Greasing wrenches, gluing quarters to the floor, gosh did we ever work?
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RangerG
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 11:03 Post subject:
I pulled one that would have made the Shelfmeister proud.
Whe have a younger assembly guy who likes to brag he is the "Best" and can fix anything, or figure out any problem with our assembled products.
I own a remote control unit for 110v equipment. You plug it into an outlet, and then plug anything you want into it. You can turn the item on and off with a remote control that looks like a garage door opener. One of the two outlets is on, and the other is off. When you push the button, they switch functions.
I took it into work one day and pluged the guys fan and radio into it. The radio was plugged into the normaly on outlet, and the fan into the normaly off outlet.
When he came in to work, he turned his radio on and everything seemed normal. When he reached for the radio to change the volume, I hit the button and his radio went off...and his fan came on. He looked confused and reached for the fan...I quickly hit the button again and the fan went off and the radio came on again. This went on about four times when he then walked over to the phone and paged the maintenance department. One of the maintenance men came over and looked at his fan and radio... I continued the game...but the maintneance guy was on to it...he started tracing the wires back to my control box..saw what was going on, and stood up..looked at the guy and shrugged his shoulders. He indicated he did not know what was wrong...and kept a straight face the whole time. He told the guy to be careful and not touch anything metal around his bench until they could find the short circuit and left. I messed with the guy the entire rest of the day...on and off. Mostly leaving the radio on. About every half hour the radio would go off...and the fan would come on for a little bit...then switch back.
The whole time I was half way across the shop with the controller in my pocket doing my Engineering work.
At the end of the day...the guy stopped the plant manager to complain about the short circuit. The manager started looking around...found my box and darn near died laughing...as did the guys entire department who had been in on the prank with me.
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TriBob
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 11:23 Post subject:
When my Dad was on the po-po, they told the Cap. that the visitor is deaf and had to speak up. They also told the visitor that the Cap. was deaf and he would have to speak up. So for half an hour they were yelling at each other in the Caps office.
We talked a woman at working into changing the air in her car tires. You know the humidity levels change in the spring and fall and you have to match the outside air. The gas station attendent came out and asked her what she was doing after she started letting all the air out. She didn't think it was to funny.
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Cappy
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Posted: 01/21/06 - 11:36 Post subject:
When I worked for the County Police Radio it was a boring midnight shift in the winter, I sent one of the local PD's to a train depot where new cars are delivered (1000's of cars) and said that someone locked their keys in their car.
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