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Workplace pranks?
Vanity | 1-27-2013 | MtnClimber

Posted on 01/27/2013 9:19:58 PM PST by MtnClimber

I once took a coworkers phone apart and swapped the wires for column 1 and 2. He could still dial 9 for an outside line, but all calls with most numbers went to wrong numbers. Also super glued a full cup of coffee on his desk.

One that did not work on me....I left my office and my office mate thought I went to the bathroom and thought I was in a stall. He soaked a hand full of paper towels and threw them over the door and splat onto "my" head. He was laughing when he ran into the office, but not so much when he saw I was there.

One done to me when I lived in Florida, we were leaving a remote work area when the car in front of me stopped for a snake in the dirt road. I got out and saw it was a garter snake and caught it and threw it off the road. I explained that except for coral snakes in FL, all poisonous snakes were pit vipers with slit pupils. A few days later my coworkers opened the door to my office and were snickering and saying "slit pupils are not poisonous" and threw a large zip-loc baggie on my desk containing a live eastern diamond back rattlesnake they had caught that was sluggish due to cold weather. I took it far away and let it go. They got me. I was surprised!


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To: svcw

A guy was goosed with a high pressure air hose when I was a kid welding.

He died.

That is not a joke. That is negligence.


61 posted on 01/27/2013 11:06:09 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Blackirish

That must be endemic to the print industry. My first gig out of high school before college was as a press helper on a multi-unit Harris press. My task was to retrieve the only 5 gal bucket of paper stretcher. After being sent to 2 different buildings and 4 or 5 different press crews who “just gave it to the Atlas guys about an hour ago...check with them.”

I hung out in the stripping area the rest of the shift and played on the computer. At the end of the shift, my pressman thought I quit. Nope. I found your paper stretcher. It was empty but now it’s being re-filled. If you want, tomorrow after I clock in, I can get you some more? :)


62 posted on 01/27/2013 11:08:58 PM PST by Sylvester McMonkey McBean
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To: svcw

I am confused, since you seem to be a totalitarian why are you not on Democratic Underground? Comrade?


63 posted on 01/27/2013 11:15:17 PM PST by MtnClimber (I did not vote for 0bama, someone else did that!)
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To: Girlene

64 posted on 01/27/2013 11:24:47 PM PST by 444Flyer (Obama killed the Twinkie, but not the terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
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To: Girlene

“How To Put A Stapler In Jello”

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Put-A-Stapler-In-Jello/


65 posted on 01/27/2013 11:26:04 PM PST by 444Flyer (Obama killed the Twinkie, but not the terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
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To: mylife
On day I brazed a Stainless steel coaches whistle into a pipe, bunged that up his exhaust, wired a smoke bomb to his starter coil, filled his hubcaps with gravel AND greased his door handles.

I can imagine that as a hilarious Youtube video.

When I was very young, and barely able to walk, I made it over to my grandfather's neighbor's brand new car. I started dropping gravel from his driveway into a hole in his bumper, I guess because I could. And that was back when cars had such bumpers.

I don't remember any of it, but he reminded me about it every time I returned, because he was reminded of me every time he took a turn. He never did get all the gravel out.

66 posted on 01/27/2013 11:30:31 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

Larry was the best Mechanic I ever saw.

It was funny watching him analyze the troubles.

He knew it was me right off the bat, but he had no idea I had learned from the Master.

It was a good larf.


67 posted on 01/27/2013 11:37:04 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

I know. I am just a stick in the mud. I cannot get enjoyment out of someone else’s discomfort or humiliation.Well, mostly. I admit to wanting to do some revenge sort of pranks, but they are in no way meant to be funny on the victim, so guess that would not be a joke. And, I don’t fancy going to jail, so.....

I had some pranks pulled on me as a kid and, one in particular, really did a number on me. I imagine everyone else thought it was a hoot. But, 40 years later, I still remember it vividly.

So, you all do as you like and, as long as no one gets hurt, all should be well. Just please respect my request to not be pranked.


68 posted on 01/27/2013 11:38:01 PM PST by ozaukeemom (Is there even a republic left?)
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To: ozaukeemom

You know me.
I am basically a good natured fellow.

I am sorry if you got hurt as a kid.

Gnight, it is past my bedtime.


69 posted on 01/27/2013 11:43:38 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ozaukeemom

I think you misunderstand me on a basic level.

In general, I joke with people because I like them.


70 posted on 01/28/2013 12:12:26 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Yes, you are a good sort. I also know you would never purposely hurt someone. So, anything you would do would be in anticipation of the other party being fine with it.

I can laugh at myself, I swear. I just do not like pranks.

Have a pleasant sleep and hope your bed is not short sheeted. Yes, I just realized to my shame, I did pull a prank once.


71 posted on 01/28/2013 12:25:50 AM PST by ozaukeemom (Is there even a republic left?)
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To: ozaukeemom
As a rule I am not a big fan of practical jokes. To many times it gets out of hand, and I have seen people get hurt.
That said, don't go home and leave a computer logged on, likely it will have interesting web sites added to your home page, or an "I need a hug" email will be sent to all hands, or a new wallpaper.
72 posted on 01/28/2013 12:34:36 AM PST by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
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To: mylife
A prankster at work once put a few very heavy duty zip-lock nylon cable ties on a co-worker’s drive shaft. She had no clue what was happening to her car and took it to a mechanic.

Many years ago, I had the original series of California raisin figures on my desk. I came in to work one morning and found that the guys on the night shift had kidnapped them. I had to follow an intricate wild-goose chase with clues placed all over the building to finally find them in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator in one of the break-rooms.

In the Telephone central office switch room we had large fireproof trash cans with heavy steal lids. One of the switch guys loved to drop that lid right behind someones chair to see how far they would jump. He would sometimes use a heavy metal pedestal from a relay rack install kit when the trashcan lid was not handy. One day a new manager was in the Switch room looking at a monitor screen and he could not resist pulling his infamous trick. She didn't appreciate it very much but surprisingly he is still employed to this day.

Also in the Eighties, one of the network engineers walked outside after a midnight shift to find his vintage citroen sitting on the loading dock. Several of the guys had done the seemingly impossible feat of picking it up and carrying it there.

73 posted on 01/28/2013 1:25:06 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: ozaukeemom

As a retired safety professional the FIRST rule in the employee handbook was NO HORSEPLAY. I investigated too many amputated fingers, noses and broken bones to find much of this funny or even amusing.


74 posted on 01/28/2013 1:56:41 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: MtnClimber

The best prank ever;

http://www.kewego.com/video/iLyROoaft1UI.html


75 posted on 01/28/2013 1:57:12 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: higgmeister

Once some workmen had erected some scaffolding in our office area consisting of iron pipes and boards so they could work on something up above the dropped ceiling. Of course, they went away and left the scaffolding. After a few days of this, the boss came in and found that the entire scaffolding had been disassembled and moved into his office, with his desk right at the center of it.

I wasn’t involved with that one, but on another occasion, I felt the need for a retaliatory strike, so I rigged up a noisemaker that could be attached to the underside of a desk with magnets. It was pop riveted closed and activated by pulling out a pin (grenade style). The pin was linked to a chair with a piece of string. The best part was that if anyone tried to grab the thing, they got a harmless but painful electric shock.


76 posted on 01/28/2013 2:44:22 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Defiant

The work environment was so different years ago. Everybody worked very hard but we had a whole lot of fun. Things we said to each other and the jokes which were told absolutely would get most of us in court in today’s environment. But we had respect for each others abilities and worked as a team.


77 posted on 01/28/2013 3:52:07 AM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: MtnClimber

And you seem to be devoid of reasoned thought and the ability to comprehem the difference between pranks and friendly conversations


78 posted on 01/28/2013 5:34:17 AM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: 444Flyer

Thanks for the info. Who knew it would take so much jello!


79 posted on 01/28/2013 5:51:56 AM PST by Girlene
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To: mylife

Or the new guy on the construction site to find “30 yards of chow line”.


80 posted on 01/28/2013 5:55:35 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")
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