Posted: 7/18/2012 5:33:47 AM EDT
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This ones just for fun guys, but I figure this group would enjoy it most.
What are the best pranks/jokes you've seen pulled on the job? Backdrop; A crew I work with (Solar Installers) has worked hand and hand with a crew of sub-contractors (Electricians) for 3 years, the pranks used to get so bad that the bosses had to sign a treaty, only one prank per crew per week, it could happen at anytime of any day, but only once a week. We haven't seen each other in about a year, but were about to reunite on a site . . . I want some fresh material, as Im assuming the treaty is expired, it'll probably be a crazy week. 
So you know what type of level were operating on here, these are my favorite three that come to mind: 1. One day they left early and put their locks on our trailer so we retaliated. We opened their trailer, took 5 or 6 homer buckets full of 1" pipe fittings, lay-in-lugs and the such, and flipped them over hard and fast on the floor. The buckets hold everything in still, but in the morning when they move the bucket all the fittings pour out onto the floor. 2. Generally speaking, only me and the electricians crew lead would operate the Lull. One day I took one of the Taylor Rental tags they have all over the thing and inserted it into the metal fencing on the little operators fan underneath the blades, I turned the fan on high, turned the Lull off, and piled dirt dust on top of the tag. Unfortunately, this guy (the peace keeper) got in the Lull that day instead, and when he turned it on he got a face full of dirt. He liked it so much he just set it all back up and told his boss something was wrong and it wouldn't turn on. 
3. The last day on the job of the last day we saw them, one of their guys left loose wires on all the terminal blocks, so when we came by to inspect and label, it would pop off and nab us in the hand with 600 volts DC. They did it to every box on the roof (12), so me and a couple of my guys got whacked. It worked swimmingly, so massive retaliation was needed. We ran home-runs all the way down to their trucks (the boxes), their trailer, the porta-potty, the conex container, we even buried two leads and put a socket wrench on-top touching both of them. We literally put a charge to anything we thought they would need to touch that was metal. It was awesome, I shit you not, by the end of the day none of them wanted to touch anything. Ill never forget walking around the corner of the building and seeing this guy on his hands and knees inspecting a screwdriver laying on the ground like EOD would inspect a suspected IED. They probably didn't forget that one, so I need some good ones guys! 
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On my Gunny's keyboard, I shifted the number keys at the top one spot to the right and moved the zero to the 1 position so it read 0123...
He locked himself out of the computer after 3 failed attempts to login and had to make a trip across base to get his ID unlocked 
I put somebody's cover(hat) in a gatorade bottle, filled it with water, then froze it. Shenanigans are continuous
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Go out on the street during your lunch break and protest the job site for hiring non-union workers. As soon as lunch is over go back to work.
Worked with a guy who did some strange things randomly. One time while doing some retrofitting work at a factory that was constantly retooling, with several different trades there at any given time, he finds a pipe that he can hear murmurs of some other peoples conversations. He yells through the pipe "help help i'm stuck, i cant get out." Him and the other guys he was working with departed to lunch pretty much immediately after and came back to find every other worker on the site frantically tearing apart basically the entire level of the building trying to find this stuck worker who stopped responding to the rescuers calls. |
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I can't tell all my good ones...but heres a couple.
THE SNEAKY CORD- when subs leave their cords streatched out every where we are trying to work we put a dab plastic cement, water cut off, or other nasty roofing stuff on their cord every 6 feet. When they roll up their cord they get a hand full from the first dab, go wipe off their hand, then get another hand full 6 feet down the line...repeat. FUN WITH SPRAY GLUE- you can use spray glue (white lightning is my fav) to glue down anything and it will be funny. I sprayed a apprentices lunch box down to a scrap piece of drywall, the look on his face when he picked up a 3'x3' piece with his box attached. HIGH PLACES- Another favorite is taking tools and tie wiring them to the bottom of bar joists. just don't look up. ZIP TIES- zip tie suff. steal zip ties from the tinners. i like zip tying tape measures into peoples tool belts (at lunch of course). Tie stuff to guys rolling carts. Those big zip ties work great on drive shafts of your buddys truck. ROOF FLAGGING- works great when you take 12' or so, tie it underneath victims bumper they stick it up under the truck. When they hit 35 they'll have a nice streamer. Also work well with caution tape. |
| the best one I got is take a antifreeze bottle empty fill it with baby powder put the cap on tight drill a hole in the cap install an air fitting and hose wait for victim to drop pants in the bathroom stall toss in and plug air hose in and wait for loud noise and white powder to clear. very funny . |
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shoot their tool boxes to the concrete deck with a hilti gun when they hit the porta john, then say hurry up lets go. We had a variation of this once, but with a PM up in VT, he was a real nice guy but one of the types to get in the way if he didn't have anything to keep him pre-occupied. He had a five gallon bucket half full of tek-screws on his tailgate one day, we spotted it as we walked by so we emptied the bucket, tek screwed it to the tailgate using 4 or 5 of them, and then poured all the teks back in.
That kept him busy for a little bit.
Some awesome ideas, at least a half dozen of these are going straight to work. hahaha |
| Just a funny, when I worked in the oil field we would take grease pens and right funny things on the tires of people coming onto location and then the dust/dirt was attracted to it and would stand out really well. My favorite is when we got out tool pusher with 'Rainbow Pride' on all four wheels. He had to scrub it off the next day at the car wash. |
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We were in full battle rattle one day riding in the back of a 7ton and I usually keep zip ties and 550 and other stuff on me just in case of whatever. Well, a bunch of people had dozed off so I grabbed what I had on hand and started tying everyone down. We got where we were going and they all went to get up and I almost fell out the back of the truck laughing
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At work we have this big wall full of framed certificates and other official bullshit that no one ever reads.
One employee printed out an official looking certificate that said "This Certificate of Achievement is Awarded to Mr. Smith on behalf of the Price of Scandinavia" and hung it up among all the others. It took months for someone to notice.
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Road march at Ft. Hood back in the 90's. Put rocks in the outer pockets of someone's rucksack.
Put drink powder in a guys K-pot when it was laying on the ground. Flipped the on/off switch over on a guys power supply. Routed the windshield wiper wash tube under the dash on a guys truck and put mud on the windshield. Got him in the nads when he pushed the button. |
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Road march at Ft. Hood back in the 90's. Put rocks in the outer pockets of someone's rucksack. Put drink powder in a guys K-pot when it was laying on the ground. Flipped the on/off switch over on a guys power supply. Routed the windshield wiper wash tube under the dash on a guys truck and put mud on the windshield. Got him in the nads when he pushed the button. HAHAHAHAHA That must have been the most ultimate (WTF?!?!  ) moment ever.
I want to do this, but Im imagining its pretty involved on their new F-350. |
| I worked at a car dealership with a friend who always kept his keys in his desk. I would go move his car to the back corner of the lot and put his keys back in his desk. He would never notice till the end of the night and he got locked in a couple of times before he would get back to the front and had to walk home. He started catching on to were it always was so I started parking it at his house. |
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Put a stick in the lock loop on the porta crapper and run. If you have time and can score someones tape measure this is priceless. Look at the lil chrome foot at the end of the tape, it will have two rivets. Take pliers/needle nose vice grips and de crimp the swaged portion of the rivets and remove the rivets and foot. Cut the end of the tape between the two rivet holes and add another hole up the tape from the remaining hole. Now replace the foot and the rivets and carefully recrimp the rivets making shure the foot can slide like it should,. The beauty of this gag is that the tapes owner will not notice and "His" measurements will work out fine, ie they measure with their now short tape 15" and everything comes out OK, but if someone gives them dimensions to follow everything comes out 1/4" too short and everyone will think their an idiot and cant measure. |