workplace pranks?

At training centre used to run a wire from cooker ignition to a big tub of nuts bolts etc and ask one instructor to pass a bolt to ya as he put hand in it , press the igniter and watch him jump amazing how many times he fell for it
 
I can't condone this but it happened once in the middle of a night shift...

Get a disposable rubber glove and form a fuse from a piece of A4 paper.

Fill the glove up with oxy/acetylene and then seal it off tightly with a rubber band, trapping the fuse in the wrist of the glove

Now here's the important part...

Find the lazy sod who thinks it is OK to sleep on the job.

Place glove behind him and light the fuse...retire to a safe distance and pretend to be working when he comes running to see who just woke him up :lol:
 
Engineers at a very large paper mill where I worked many yeas ago were issued with oval canvas tool bags with a wooden base. The mill was spread over a large area &, rather than waste time taking your tools back to the shop at meal breaks, it was standard practice to stash them in a convenient hidey hole. You had to make sure that nobody saw you, not so much because you’d get your tools nicked but it was standard practice to fill any tool bag you managed to find with hot, wet paper pulp & stick it on the largest nearby heat source or steam pipe you could find. In less than an hour the pulp would set solid & on return you’d find all your tools encase in a solid lump of paper mache; it took ages to break out your tools again.

Another one was to empty the fire (water) bucket from an elevated walkway know as No5 bridge onto the skivers standing in the designated smoking area below.

Yet another was to spray the fire hose over the partitioning wall that divided of the w/c traps from the changing rooms.

You’d probably get instant dismissal for doing any of those now.
 
To use the dept phone you had to lean over the stores counter with your back to everyone,
Let them get into deep conversation with the office women on other end of phone then hold a lighted match on there ar#e ,took about 5 seconds till they where using every expletive under the sun followed by apologies to person on other end. Or if you really wanted to get them you light there overall jacket. Foreman was one of the worst instigators.

If someone left a time sheet laying about you would fill in claim boxes on back for expenses then when they handed it foreman would start ranting and raving about the£20 telephone expenses with the guy wondering what the fek he was on about..... And if you where lucky he missed it and you got a few extra bob in the wages
 
A boilermaker I knew said anybody standing still on the steel mesh floor above where they were working would get the hobnails of their boots welded to the mesh.

Then there were the cable jointers who kept a stuffed crocodile in the back of their van. They would send a new apprentice off to make the tea while they checked a deep cable chamber for gas, dropping the crocodile down the shaft.
When the lad came back with the tea, they would send him down the hole to place the pump hose....
 
One day while teaching in a large comprehensive school a senior pupil arrived at my classroom door with a note stating that HM Inspectors of schools were paying an impromptu visit to the school and that students were only to be allowed to leave the classroom in exceptional circumstances. When I asked which departments were being investigated, i was told the visits to classrooms would be completely random. Just my luck when 10 minutes later a large snooty looking lady arrived at my class and without as much as a good morning, seated herself at the back of the class. I completed my talk on fishing in the North Sea and then began to ask questions. Not a single hand went up for any of them. In desperation, I began to ask the brighter pupils directly. "I dont know sir"; "I'm not sure". The inspector stood up and announced that my lesson had been the worst she had experienced as an inspector and that my Q&A techniques were pitiful. She began to ask the same questions and every single hand went up. I.....was completely humiliated. How was I to know that the inspector was my best mates aunt, that the entire class had been primed for the 'visit' and that the whole school apart from me knew that it was a set-up in retalliation for a joke that I had played on my friend months earlier.
 
ive never heard this before,but a plumbing apprentice recently was told to go to the suppliers for some fallopian tube,amazing how quickly this went round the town :D .

we sent a work experience boy to get some coloured sparks for the paint and some sky hooks went into the office and proudly asked the boss.
 
Mate sent to naffi to get some naffi tarts specially made for them if you cant find them ask the woman behind the counter.
You can guess what the women replied when asked where the naffi tarts where
 
Our test dept was always sending off the new apprentices with a curved light tube & asking them to straighten it. :D
 
Best one we had when I was a Joiner apprentice. Painter foreman sent the apprentice with the old joke, can he have a long wait. After he waited for half an hour we told him he had been setup, but he would not believe us. So we sent him back with the biggest, heaviest sash weight we could find. He was back in ten minutes for a left handed one.
 
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