I was walking past the work area of one of our computer guys and noticed a magazine for high school cheerleaders. I looked at the cover and saw his name and the company address on it. I laughed and he said that one of the other computer techs subscribed him to it, but he still does not know who. I thought it was funny, do others play piratical jokes on each other?
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Yeah, we were playing so many practical jokes, the owner told us we had to quit. My favorites are switching key caps on the keyboard for the parts guy (he kept trying over and over to input the part number); having a newbe test a machine after loading skyshots every 5 pages in the drawer (the puzzled look was too funny), and the one that got us busted was loading waste toner in the tech's gym shoes before he went to his workout (he didn't know the toner was there until he switched back to his work clothes)."You can't trust your eyes, if your mind is out of focus" --
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We had two tech that traded practical jokes on a daily basis. The more memorable ones were
1) greased door handles
2) hole punch chads in the defroster vents
3) radio set to full blast
4) windows cranked down during a rainstorm
5) partially flattened tires
Some practical jokes that I was involved with were:
1) filling an S10 pickup with packing peanuts, to the dome light
2) disconnect handset cord under phone
3) fill desk drawers with hole punch chads (it takes a lot)
4) superglueing an glass ashtray to an office desk
The absolute worst though, was the tuna sandwich under another techs driver seat (in August). Sometime around day 4 the aroma becomes overwhelming. It never went away completely either.
=^..^=If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.
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hehe....that one is a good one.....
When I was in the army as a RadOp, a prank for newbies was to send them to the QM supplies for a box of frequencies. I almost fell for that one....I got to the building before it dawned that the guys were setting me up. Not everyone figured that one out before getting an earful from the QMS staff....heh"Many years ago I chased a woman for almost two years, only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: we both were crazy about girls."
---Groucho Marx
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One of our techs back from training said the instructor told them he took a bunch of business cards from this manager he did not like, and passed them out at a gay bar, telling guys to call him, they would do lunch.
When we would hire new girls to answer the phone, I would get people to call I and report that one of their soldiers was trying to copy their ass and the glass broke and now their testicles and caught in the cables, how soon can he get here.
At the steel plant I worked in, I used to swap out peoples uniforms when they came in from the service company. The fat guy gets the small shirt, the tall guy gets the long pants. I had to stop, the uniform man almost got into a couple of fights.
Another fave of mine is to tie a rubber glove around the drive shaft of the car.
And lets not forget super gluing a quarter to the floor to watch people pick it up.The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen HawkingComment
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Quite a few years ago i turned up for work to find an envelope with my name on it and "freedom to express your homosexuality" and company address on it. inside was lots of gay litrature. I went bananas the sales guys just pissed themselves laughing as they just typed up an envelope with my name on it and left it on my desk.Comment
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Use different colored skyshots and put them in a b/w machine...
I did that one and it took 2 hours for the newbie to comprehend b/w machines cannot produce "color" copies.....And Star Trek was just a tv show...yeah right!Comment
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I know a tech that had the door handles (late 70's chevy with the real stick out door handles) coated with vaseline.And Star Trek was just a tv show...yeah right!Comment
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I got our in shop computer tech by each day adjusting the colour of his default blue windows desktop slightly paler when he was out for lunch. This went on for 2 weeks or so, I had to come clean when after he tried the 4th new video card he was about to do a complete reload of windows, yep he couldn't take a joke at all hehe."See if you can rent a spring hook and a phillips screwdriver it will make your life that much easier..."Comment
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Create a new shortcut on the desktop to shutdown the computer. Change the icon and the name to Internet Explorer. Delete actual IE shortcut and ur done.I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~Thomas EdisonComment
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One of the repair companies I worked at was 2 suites down from a gay gym. The field techs would put love notes in the door handle of the parts guy's car. It had him so freaked out he parked in back. It was so funny to them they began to tape ads from the gay yellow pages on his monitor (yes, in Atlanta, they have one). Needless to say, he did not take it well.
The jokes I've done were on in shop techs and the boss.
Foamy cleaner sprayed in chair
box taped their mouse and tools to the desk
wire tied their chair to the desk
put tape over the lens opening of a laser scanner
put packing peanuts in the fan of a printer (as soon as they put it on, they get a shower of tiny foam pieces, plus it scares the crap out of them when they're not expecting it)
super soaker fights in the warehouse
hiding their chair in the ladies room (tech wandered around the entire building looking for his chair for over an hour, while the rest of us laughed)
Removing the battery from drills
putting chairs real low so they're sitting on the floor
& my personal favorite:
At one company an in-shop tech shared a PC with me as our benches were side-by-side. He had a picture of his Honda Shadow, the one with the orange tank and the flames on it, as the desktop picture. While he was gone to lunch, I took the photo, put it in MS Paint and painted the tank pink, added pink streamers out of the handle bars, & flowers on other key areas. I saved the photo again and made it the desktop photo. Other techs saw it before he did. When he finally saw it, he nearly flipped out. I laughed so hard I could hardly breathe.
When you're a girl like me working with a bunch of guys, you got to be able to take a joke and dish one out.Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Coke in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO-HOO, what a ride!".Comment
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When I was working for a 'Office ??? ' as the Electronics Supervisor, we would get the newbie's by re-arranging the products on the shelves. We would of course SPREAD the items out so they did not all fit. We would then send them down the mall to X store to see Jim Bob and ask for the " SHELF STRETCHER " that he borrowed from us last week: Jim Bob would send him to another store to see Mary Ellen...etc.
By the time they got back, ' without the shelf stretcher ' we would have straightened out all thew displays and shelves, and then tell them " Never Mind ". It was one guy's FOURTH trip before he figured it out.
We used to put clear tape on the power cord prongs on the tech's swing arm lamp, take it off when he left to get a new bulb, and have the lamp back on when they returned.
AH!! THE GOOD OLD DAYS."The Serenity Prayer" . . .
God grant me the serenity to accept stupid people , the courage to not waste my time and energy on them , and the wisdom to know that I cannot fix STUPID .Comment
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There were always jokes going on at the last office that I worked at, but the big thing was the scare! We tried to scare the crap out of each other. And we did!
One time fairly new tech was coming into the office. We got prepared. We had one guy who was fairly short and would fit any where. We cleaned out the cabinet where we kept scrap paper. The small guy got in the cabinet. When the new tech got back I acted like I was working on a machine. I asked him to get me some scrap paper out of the scrap cabinet(the one with the tech hiding in it). He opened the door and reached in with out looking. The guy hiding in there screamed and grabbed his hand. I have never seen anyone start shaking because they were scared. But he did!
We messed up because the guy that we scared became the best for scaring people. he paid us back 10 times over. After about 8 years we figured out how to know when you scared some one the best. There are 3 stages. one the initial scare, two the getting pissed, and then three the laughing about it. If you can find those three items in a scare you know you got them good
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