When I was a apprentice, there was a old guy that wore steel toe boots that had the steels exposed from wear. He would change shoes and remove bibs at work and lay on pipe . Boss told me to weld his boots to pipe and I could leave early next day. I did it but he had a couple of holes in the top of his boots now.

How about the old bending of 3/32 7018 lo hi behind the neck ? Have him place 12 rods behind his neck and then try to bend them around his neck. All that nice coating drops down his shirt. :cool2:

 

some black paper in between the filter and cover plates of the welding shield was always good for a laugh. gotta be careful though cause this kind of stuff get's out of hand quickly and degenerates to the lowest common denominator. sometimes even into fist city.

 

Its all in fun but can get out for hand.

 

Put small piece of rubber on both sides of his ground clamp.

I was on a bridge job one time. We had a girl operating engineer mechanic. She was a blast to work around. We also had a great superintendent. I don't know how she arranged it, but she had someone come to the job site, when the superintendent left his company pickup they filled the cab with ping pong balls! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

I've stuffed half a tomato in the toe of someone's boot(grocery store)
Vaseline/grease on the earpiece of the shop phone, then call when they are nearby.
Pencil graphite on the sweatband of their hood.
Get some broken tempered glass, scatter around their drivers door of their personal vehicle(works best when you can get the window rolled down)
Artificial sweetener to their drinks(either lots at once, or little by little during the day)
Salt in their drinks, best to do it all in one shot.
Cut grapes in half and stick in the end of the fingers of their gloves, so the fingers hit the cut side of the grape
A bit of tape over the sensor on an AD hood

 

Pretty much everything is funny to me but some of that stuff is not funny.

 

Yes you do need to know the limits of having fun vs being a Dick.

Had this one ******* that would drop a 5000 lb roll right behind you when you were making a weld. That is not really funny.

I never did it but we had this jumpy welder once and I always wanted to go stand next to him as he was welding with like a scarey mask on so when he lifts his hood...........

 

Which ones?

 

I would not like people messing with my stuff.

We had a rodent at work that filled one of our welders shoes with rat poison. Everybody thought I was doing it. That to me is just not funny and it poses maybe a health risk to the guy.

I did put a note in my girlfriends shoe once that said I smell something stinky in here and other people found it funny when she discovered it weeks later. It did not really cost anybody anything.

 

I won't put up with this kind of crap to be honest - makes my pretty pissed - when I'm working, I'm working.

So far everyplace I've worked has respected my wishes to not be involved in it.

Although a young guy used to let the air out of my air ride seat sometimes - that's kind of funny.

 

I'm the same way. Had a guy on a construction site put Vaseline in my hardhat headgear. I held him down and rubbed pipe grease all over his head (hair), face, and neck until the rest of that gallon was gone. That stuff is evil, ruins gloves because it never comes out.
Everyone realized that I have no sense of humor when it comes to being screwed with.

 

Drop a firecracker behind some running a torch

 

When I was in high school I worked in a fab shop. These two guys were always playing pranks on each other. Didn't take long for it to get out of hand. Guy went out back to the oil drums with a 5-gallon bucket. Got some oil and mixed saw dust in with the oil. Poured it all the drawers of the one guy's roll-a-way. The foreman caught the guy who owned the roll-a-way just as he got going on O&A welding drawers shut on the other guys roll-a-way!

 

Saw a similar deal escalate between a couple guys, only after getting the handles greased on his machine for weeks, dude filled that guys tool box full of cat litter. Used a 50 lb bag.

Yeah, it came real close to a fist fight that morning when dude came in.

I personally don't care much for pranks, like it said above maybe a little screwing around, but it usually gets ugly pretty quick. At least everywhere I've worked it has.

 

A tomato in the toe of a boot is a far cry from rat poison.

 

Remember when everybody had the same looking lunch box? The wife and I got into an argument before I left for work. She put a big spoon in my lunch bucket, with a note wrapped around it. The note said big spoon for a big mouth. Someone in the crew sat down with my bucket. When he read the note, guess who got picked on for a few days? :laugh:

 

Once doing a turn around in a processing plant, we had this laborer that liked to shake the Genie lifts when we were welding in the rafters. One day I was tigging stainless and had enough of him. After lunch break I set a sheet of stainless on the floor and grounded it to the rest of the pipe in the place and waited. As soon as he came traipsing through I pushed on my thumb controller and touched the tungsten to the handrail of the lift... Zap! he never messed with me again. He stood on the sheet and grabbed the Genie. Oops.

 

i dont even tollerate lift shakers man, jobs hard enough as is at elevations.

glad to hear you got creative on him and taught him good.


one that was given to me a few years ago was the simple

"hey, boss wants to see you in the trailer"

i walked all the way over there and made a fool of myself

"sup boss?"

"sup". . . . . . . . .. . . .awkward silence as i stood there waiting for him to get done with whatever i thought he was busy with

he finally looks up at me and goes

"Kevin," and he looked a little strange so i was now very worried about what he wanted to talk about, and he continues with, "wtf are you doing in here? Do you need something?"

i was on a mission at that point and left the trailer in a hurry, which probly left the boss a little confused, funny i dont work for him much anymore. . . . . .

 

He'll at my shop you don't even get a warning, pull a prank or something like that on someone and you head out the gate same day

But I haven't always worked there so the old glue lunch pail shut or big tie wraps on drive shaft. Or adjusting welding amperage while someone is welding

 

I should note, all my pranks have been pulled at my retail jobs. My current job is looking more and more like a career every day and I won't do anything to fuch it up.

 

If the person you are pranking has a 4x4 truck simply put the transfer case in neutral. Makes for funny show when they think the transmission crapped out on them.
Had a large plate shear at work. One guy would load and another get the cut piece. I took ketchup packets and stuffed them in my glove with a chicken wing. I let the shear cut those fingers off. The guy getting the cut piece almost passed out he was show pissed off when he realized I was messing with him. Caused a huge ordeal. Almost lost a job over it.

 

Had a large plate shear at work. One guy would load and another get the cut piece. I took ketchup packets and stuffed them in my glove with a chicken wing. I let the shear cut those fingers off. The guy getting the cut piece almost passed out he was show pissed off when he realized I was messing with him. Caused a huge ordeal. Almost lost a job over it.

Now that's a classic! Too funny! :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

it can get out of hand, but its about the only way i've found to deal with pranksters, and it does make the day go a little quicker too.

if im trying to teach a lesson, i usually let it last until im ready to do something over the line, then call truce instead. all is good after that usually.

this guys been dealt with before. . . . .he was working on one of the guys at the shop that rides a bicycle to work. well, he got tired of it and picked up a somewhat intact squirrel on the way to work and put it in the offender's lunchbox. . . . .funny as hell, and it was all taken in stride though i believe the squirrel man was prepared for him to put fists up.

this job im on is pretty tight and we have all worked together for wayyyy too long, so we all know the game, just got me wondering what kind of stuff ya'll get yourselves into :jester:

 

You can ask any of my dads employees, I have a temper and a bad one, a stupid prank at the wrong time and you'll get an impact to the back of the head or crowbar thrown at you, ive done both those things to somebody thought they'd wise off while im working.

 

No, screwing around at work.
You might end up with brake cleaner in your mig gas line.

 

We had one guy that had the fastest growing fingernails in the world apparently. He would sit and trim his fingernails 3-4 times a week, for 10 min a shot (quite literally, he just liked to be too busy to do anything else) so we took and "sharpened" his fingernail clippers with the air sander. All we could do to not bust out laughing while he used those damn things. Never caught on as far as I knew.

Partially chewed up a Baby Ruth bar and spit it into a pile of toilet paper, and placed in toolbox drawer.

One guy tacked the ends of a bunch of the tig filler rod together and put them back in the holder, tacked end down.

Put Scotch tape over the contacts of cordless tool batteries.

I'm not one to instigate, but I get a kick out of return fire.

 

This says it all

 

This was back when you could still have fun on the job
the quy's on the assy line came up with this - their was a testing
area about 50 ft away - their was always something going on between
them - any way the line boys got a 1 inch ball valve and a 6 inch piece of
copper tubeing and fasten them together with a quick connect in the other
end of the ball valve - got the picture yet - took some wax tape and tamped
it into the tube some nameplate ribits about 30 - poured into tube - another
piece of wax tape - they would point this thing toward the testing area -
and holler INCOMEING - jerk the ball valve open - when that wax tape let go
with 175 psi behind it - it was like being in a hail storm
BUT i just heard about this dont know anything

 

We had a guy who liked to drop his lit cigarette butts into a pocket if you were bent over doing something/not paying attention.

 

That man would be dead if he did that. I hate cigarettes and everything about them

 

Saw a 68 year old man with a pacemaker literally have a heart attack when someone dropped a piece of 1" flat bar on a steel topped table behind him. Heart got out of rhythm and was in the hospital for 2 days. Bad deal for the whole shop.

Stay away from horseplay and eventually it will stay away from you.

 

I don't put up with ANYONES crap anymore.

Last person that tried playing games with me came in the next day and found his whole tool box welded shut.



...zap!

 

Worked with a guy who's dad worked in a press shop. Had a guy there that screwed with everybody. One night the guy took it off, the other guys took his tool box and lifted it up to the ceiling beams with a hi lo and welded it to the beams.

Dude spent quite some time looking for his box when he came to work the next night.

Needless to say the pranks stopped.