Pranks you've played

[NinerSevenTango]

Yeh .... one little static spark and the fun starts earlier than planned.

[fizzissist]

....a little careful grounding and careful handling prevented any surprises..

[Mazaholic]

Me and another setup man always played harmless pranks on new employees.
I got a ton of them..here's one.

One night at work there was a guy dancing around at his machine,he had to take a dump.
He goes to the bathroom and comes back,still dancing.
About 10 minutes goes by and he goes to the bathroom again...comes back,still dancing.
10 minutes later he runs to the bathroom..runs back still dancing and tells me he has to go to the other end of the plant to go to the bathroom and runs off.
I look at the other setup man and he's laughing out loud with tears in his eyes.
He tells me to follow him to the bathroom..We go in and i see work boots in the stall and wonder who it is thats been gone that long.
The setup man opens the stall and there is a pair of empty boots in the stall.
I almost lost it...I laughed for two days.

[Mazaholic]

One shop i worked at,we had a break in joke for all the new grasshoppers.
We would send them from person to person looking for ID thread wires.

[avsfan733]

I may be a youngin but the formula SAE team I participate on has a few good ones. Mostly got played on freshman who didn't know their way around the tools or a print for that matter.

Usually can get the freshman with tossing them one of the chassis tubes. There are weld caps on the ends so it looks solid once the welds are ground off...you do i nice job of making it look heavy and then kinda toss it to them. they usually catch it with so much force they throw it back up in the air.

There was another kinda spacy type kid. He was a total know it all who new nothing. We had him convinced we had some new super material that not only was illegal to posess...but it was also invisible and extremely fragile. ( I told you he was a space case) The guys spent about three days carrying around a foot long piece of nothing. We ran the nothing through the lathe mill edm etc. then it was handed to him and he 'dropped it'. This poor kid was in so deep he had no idea and was totally a wreck.

the best though was drawing a print for a womens type device. We gave him the print in parts and he didn't realize what he was making until he went and showed the 'fueling nozzle' to the retired, evangalist, tool and die maker who taught all the classes in the shop. Priceless

[JerryFlyGuy]

I just got reminded about another one that happened here. I wasn't a part of it all, I just heard though the grape vine. We had a new kid who 'knew all about welding' as he 'came from the farm' [now.. I grew up on a farm so this is not a knock against our rural people] It was difficult to work with him as he was always telling the more experianced [some were VERY experianced & had been with the company for 15yr's+] people what they were doing wrong..

He was pretty much a complete nube but didn't want to admit it.. finally one day someone got sick of him spouting off, so they sent him up front to our "front desk" fella to ask for a "sheet stretcher".. he was told it was probably in the basement [there is no basement in our shop]. He goes and ask's, and the front desk fella realizing what's going on, quick as a wink asks him.. 'well do you need the big one or the little one..' anyway the kid went back and forth several times before he realized he was getting the run around.. he's since settled down and is a great help to the shop, once he realized we knew he didn't know jack about what he was doing and we could teach him.

Once in a while when we have tool box meetings about cleaning up the shop or whatever.. the "we're gonna have to find a home for those sheet stretchers" comes out and we all have a chuckle.. him included..

[teal379]

We used to have a sink in our testing lab. It had one of those sprayers in the corner - like for rinsing dishes. I get the brilliant idea to place a rubber band around it so when you hit the faucet - it squirts out at you. Did the deed - have the band all painted black to match and everything - in comes plant manager (owners kid) and he proceeds to hit the faucet - totally sprayed with water and the best part is him trying to push the water back in instead of turning the faucet off. (mind you he was in a suit and headed to a board meeting).