Practical jokes.

[KapeKopyTek]

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A little grease of the right color and consistency, smeared on a couple of sheets of TP and left on a desk, counter, etc., will cause a scene......... so I've heard....... Used dirty aircraft landing gear strut grease is particularly realistic.

[blackcat4866]

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Turn the machine to Japanese language. We mess with the office machine all the time. See how long it takes to get it fixed. Like switch off some of the protocols. Or put the useless web on there.

The Useless Web

We got in a lot of trouble for the Japanese display language. It never occurred to us that none of us can read Japanese, and cannot set it back to English. It was a very humbling call to the hotline. =^..^=

[fixthecopier]

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We got in a lot of trouble for the Japanese display language. It never occurred to us that none of us can read Japanese, and cannot set it back to English. It was a very humbling call to the hotline. =^..^=

I had the path back to English memorized on the Dialta series. I would change it all the time.



Back at Weber Carburetors, there was a giant of a man named Leon. He was back woods country, about 6 foot 4 inches tall and looked like Lurch from The Addams Family. One day Leon left his car running all day in the parking lot from the time he arrived til shift end. After that, we would steal his keys and go out ans start his car right before the shift ended, leaving him wondering if his car had been running for hours.

[KenB]

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Maybe not a joke, but I once accidentally set a 1 to a 0 (or vice versa) on a Canon fax machine, setting it to Japanese.

Of course, whatever bit switch it may have been was not marked in the service manual, along with about a bazillion others.

Nothing like taking 4 hours to finish what should have been a 1 hour call.

[roho]

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Ah memories, I had the Japanese keypath memorized as well, and one service call the manager at the time was with me. I updated the device and went to the phone to clear the call, and asked him to reboot the device, after changing the language. The look on his face when it rebooted in Japanese was priceless, total aghast. He had a real fair complexion and would turn red at the slightest event, and not only did that happen, he was sputtering and stammering as well. He thought he did something to it, priceless. I told him he better call Canon on his cell phone, which took him away for a minute, quickly changed it back and rebooted. The newer models have a shortcut key, which is handy as I have a couple of customers that do use the Japanese language setting.

Had a manager earlier that was scared of spiders. It was a shop position I had, rebuilding fusers and devs, back in the analog days. It was common to find nursery spiders, larger brown wandering spiders, in the assemblies. I would carefully put one in my hand, and discreetly drop it on his cluttered desk. A minute later or so, he'd jump, papers scattering all over, a big sudden commotion. Everybody else in the department was in on it as well. He eventually caught on to me, but it was fun while it lasted.

[blsquires]

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i had a rear light on my car that someone had backed into .as a temporary fix i had used tape and super glue to fix it.
we had a tech that was a real pain in the bum .we all drove the same vehicles so when he came in for lunch i went to the car park (borrowed the spare key from the service manager) and swapped the rear lights.
i strolled into the lunch room and said who hit your car .he ran outside and saw the broken lamp and got in a panic .he ran in to tell the service manager someone had hit his car .
while he was inside i swapped the lamps back .he came out with the service manager to show him the damage and his face was a picture .

[Iowatech]

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This will only work in a specific environment, namely in a big tent that has a dirt floor. If you dig small holes underneath a cot's legs, put empty pop cans in the holes, and then cover the parts of the cans that show with a thin layer of dirt, hilarity will ensue when the person that uses that cot first sits on it.
I may have heard about that when I was probably in the Reserves. The GP medium was kind of a large tent.

[ricoh]

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1/ A thin smear of conductive grease or toner on the eyepiece of a loupe.
2/ Grab your colleagues spare key when they are on lunch and with a paintbrush and a small amount of black toner, apply to contact points liberally, i.e: door handles, behind steering wheel, shifter knob etc.
3/ whilst in colleagues car, point all air-con vents towards drivers face and turn fan speed to high. With a straw, inject and amount of toner of your choice into each air vent.
(Caveat emptor on #3: I take no responsibility or liability, so far as legally possible, for any damages or injuries incurred).