Shop Antics

[DDM]

Working nights can be interesting to say the least. And the people that work nights well lets just say they can be interesting to say the least. I'm starting this thread so that some of us might share our stories of some of the things that happen when the boss isn't looking. (You might not want to put your name or where you work.)

Disclaimer: Some of the things you are about to read are stupid, dangerous, funny and should not be repeated or attempted by anyone.

-Keep your beer cold in the back tank of the toilet, flush every half hour for ice cold refreshment (hasn't been done in our shop for a few years)

-When you have air hoses for blowing off parts (the cheap ones with the triggers) use it and your other hand as a noise maker. 30 seconds of this and everyone else in the shop will want to kill you.

-Knotted up shop rags make great projectiles until they fall into the coolant (untie the rags before day shift gets in)

-Paper airplanes can be fun but dangerous. They are very addictive to make while you're waiting for parts to come out. Warning: watch where you throw them, it's not much fun have to get out the ladder to get them off of the back of the machines or worse landing in the machines which sometimes requires you stop the machine take panels off to remove your origami. Paper airplanes can lead to cardboard gliders. Be sure to destroy them before the boss comes in.

-Drop the dustpan. There are the guy(s) in the shop that are just asking for it. When they are reading through the code on the machine trying to figure something out, drop a metal dustpan behind them. Just don't do it when they could cause the machine to crash or hurt themselves.

-Put random parts on the parts conveyor if part of it is hidden. There is nothing like expecting an aluminum part to come out and a hot dog falls into your parts tray.

I'm sure there are many more and many much worse but it might get the ball rolling. What I mentioned above isn't that bad but can still be dangerous and please don't attempt it because you thought it was a good idea. And don't let production fall for having a good time, most of this is due to board em.

More for another day

[trooper55]

So i guess ill get the ball rolling on this one, A fun one to do at my old work 2nd shift at a huge factory was with our blow guns was to put a jelly bean in at the end then shoot them clear accross the factory.

One that the guys use to to here is if you have your hard hat one in the field they will ask what it sounds like when turtuls **** and then hit you with there hard hat on your hard hat. Hahah love that one.

Another is we will constanly **** around with our shop boss on stuff that isnt f*&^ed up be we tell him it is.

Like the I was sitting in the break room eating and Louie (the shop boss) Gets stoped by Paul (the company owner) and Paul asked louie about a sign that me and louie took down two weeks ago and cut up as scrap. Paul was like well is this sign in the yard because they want it put back up in a diffrent spot.
Now this is is a 40ft Subaru sign we took down.
SO louie is freaking out because we cut it up then Paul is just straight faced and louie is sweating then paul says just kidding.

Funny stuff there

[mxtras]

I thought this thread title looked familiar! i knew I had seen a similar thread once:

Shop Antics

Scott

[DDM]

I wasn't going to post this but the jelly beans are on the same line. We have quite a few junk bearings and with a little bit of time and some small hand tools you can take apart and get the ball bearings inside. One of the guys thought it would be neat to stick one of them down a tube and apply air to it. He wasn't counting on hitting a double pane tempered glass window with the ball bearing. I've never seen this guy turn that shade of white as the window spider webbed in to thousands of pieces. Don't aim at windows.

[mog5858]

ya at my shop we use lost of pop rivits and well u know the stem that is let over after u pop it . well it if inside of a stander air blower. well every one has on at there table and well there is lost of stems so we have wars. they not good for more than 20 feet. anuther good one. i was one day was trying to figger of how air powerd calking gun works ( we just got) well i have to know how every thing works or at least tyr to figger it out. but the end of the day i had a empey silcon tube fling 300feet with a really nice sound that got every one atonshon in the shop. sins then it has gone missing and well i never got to shot at any one.

[petriej]

When I was in school, I had a lanky sleepy eyed kid in my class who liked to pull all sorts of idiot stunts (falling asleep in his oxy booth with the torch on, runnin the geo die into the chuck, running his finger into the chuck, etc.)

Well when it came time for TIG welding, I chose a booth facing his. Once in a while, I would tack a few pieces of filler rod together and jam it under the leg of his chair. I would wait until he got in the middle of his bead, and then jam my pedal. I would always hold the torch a few inches away from the rod so that the arc would have to jump the distance and carry a few more amps with it. He would jump up in his chair and his lanky legs would hit the under side of his welding table. This went on for a month and he never did figure out how I was doing it.

He was trying to outsmart me by tigging my table while I was welding. I always played like he got me, but the table was grounded to the machine and there was no way current could travel through it.

He did get me a couple of times though. He would wait until I fouled my Tungsten. While I was up sharpening, he would swap the pedals in our booths. He would wait until I was tightening up the tungsten in my torch and then jam on my pedal. This always gave me a nice jolt.

Other fun things were walking by each others booth and turning off the shielding gas, or changing welder settings.

The good old times...

[GaryCorlew]

I've got one for you, We used to have this sweeper guy who was into reading these books about dungeons, dragons, and knights. He would pretend that the broom or shovel he was using was some sort of jousting sword and come running at people with it. After a few months of this, others and myself included were getting sick and tired of it. We were starting at 5:00 am, two hours before he came in, we had a gas powered ride on sweeper in our shop, so one morning I went over to the sweeper and drilled a hole up through the seat, I then found some wire stripped the ends and ran it from the coil up through the seat. When he came in everybody who came in at the same time as I did stopped working just to watch the action, He turned the key to start it and wow!! that 40 or 50,000 sure did give him a jolt. this sweeper also had a roll over protection cage over the seat when that voltage hit him it not only gave him one hell of a jolt but when he either jumped off the seat or the shock sent him up off the seat he also smashed his head into the roll over protection cage. Everybody that knew what happened laughed their butts off, and every morning he would check that sweeper over like you would not believe.

[project5k]

the smooth operator...
put vasolene or handlotion on the earpice of an extension phone, put the phone back like normal, then calling that extension from another that we can see it from, someone picks it up and crams it into thier ear and smoosh, an ear full of handlotion...

rocky racoon
we have some binocular inspecion microscopes, so we paint the rubber eye cups with black shoe polish and then we allways know who used the scope last..

sticky keys
we use all white keyboards, so put a couple drops of ca(superglue) on a couple random keys on the keyboard, on the white, the frosty edges of the superglue dosent show up, but the center of the dropplet will stay liquid for some time.. when someone types, the superglue sets instantly when skin hits it and sticks thier finger to the keys(have some nail polish remover handy)

computer shutdown
write a batch file with the command and string to shutdown a computer, then put this batch file in the startup folder of the person to be pranked, when they log in, the computer loggs them in, and goes through all the startup, and then starts shutting down

drawer surprise
look around till you can find these little firecrackers that have a string sticking out of each end, and when the strings are pulled it POP's. tie one to the inside of a drawer and the other end to something on the bench that dosent move, when someone pulls on the drawer BANG!

plug cover-up
get some of these child wall plug cover things, the little plastic disks with 2 prongs sticking out that you put in a plug to keep kids from sticking things in the outlets, go into your buddies office, unplug everything, and superglue(just one little dot on the outer perimeter of the safety plug) one of these into every outlet in the office. (color match them if you can)

baked potatoe office
we have some managers that have cubicles for offices, get yourself several rolls of aluminum foil, and cover every single sepperate thing in thier cube with foil, chair, pens, monitor, desk surface, everything...

packing peanut office
cover the door opening with clear food wrap(we had to stretch some clear packaging tape across the doorway to strengthen) and use a shop vac output to blow the office full of packing peanuts all the way to the celing

big band
find someone whos concentrating just a little too hard, and walk up behind them with 2 metal trashcan lids, and crash them together like cymbols right behind thier head(dont hit them, please)

shocking invoice
get yourself one of these shocking pens, then take some paperwork to your boss and ask him to sign for something... offer your pen... hehehehe

broken chair leg
take an office chair to the bandsaw and from the bottom cut 90% through one of the 5 legs with wheels about an inch from the wheel, when someone sits it'l tip but not fall over (hopefully)

snake surprise
get someones pump oil can, empty it out and get one of these "mixed nuts" springy gag snakes, put it in the can, when they try and use it it feels empty, they open it to fill it and SPROING!

colorfull surprise can
get an empty aerosol spray can of something used around the shop, wd40 or something, get a new can of spraypaint, take both nozels off and find a little tube(i used the innards of a bic pen) use little tube to connect both spouts together and press the cans towards eachother, this will fill the wd40 can with paint, clean up, put nozels back on, and leave your newly filled wd40 can out in the open where someone will use it.. (i like bright colored paint, red, green, yellow) wait and watch...

[BigMike4u]

An easy one. A lot of computers have a power switch on the back. Turn the switch off and watch the fun when somebody tries to turn their computer on. You will be surprised at how many people are completely stumped.

[ZipSnipe]

Now I see why there are micro managers!!!

Some of you are just downright dangerous to work with.