Can techs take a joke?

[pontiac]

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18 yrs ago when i was working for a panasonic dealer in Las Vegas, we had a factory rep. who thought he was the great copier god. Would never admit he was wrong and if you showed him up and attended a class he was training you were not going to ace the class. Anyway he came to our shop one day and of course started putting fault on us for the problem we were having with a new copier model we kept having transfer arching problems with. Well i was fed up wih his attitude and decided it was time for some type of payback so when he asked me to power up the copier while he was checking hvps voltage i fired off a party popper at the same time. Needless to say it scared the crap out of him. He didnt say another thing for the rest of day. Well i had a class to attend 2 weeks later and guess who i didnt need to worry about, 'mister know it all' had gotten busted for sheduling trips out to Vegas at Panasonics expence and faking service reports. He was let go. To add a bigger smile to our faces Panasonic ended up replacing the copiers with a more expensive model because of bad hvps boards 14 units all together. No i never got in trouble from my manager i got a raise and promoted to field supervisor.

[igi]

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hi all
why is it us techs must have a sense of humor,but customer dont have it
my incident
customer:my machine making a funny noise
me:when the machine making funny noise do you laugh
customer:no,defenetly not
me:then the noise its not that funny
customer:slams the phone

ha-ha customer had the last laugh
i got warning letter from my boss
me and my big mouth
it was worth it

[mjunkaged]

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Another fave of mine is to tie a rubber glove around the drive shaft of the car.

So, let me guess, it only makes a 'flapflapflap' sound when the car first takes off, or was it just the right length to be noisy all the time? Having never been the victim and not reading any replies yet, I don't know!

And lets not forget super gluing a quarter to the floor to watch people pick it up.[/QUOTE]

One of my co-workers did that on a cement floor, and I simply (and fairly quickly) brushed the coin with my foot, calmly walked back to my workbench, grabbed my flat scraper, and scraped it up and put it in my pocket. I'd obv. seen that one once or twice before! =OD

[blackcat4866]

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At the cement block plant we had a fellow employee the filled the molds that was about 6' 4" tall and 400+ lbs. He drove a Chevy Scottsdale pickup and when we got mischievous we would string up a half dozen 1 1/2" flat washers on a piece of wire, and hook it to the underside of the truck bed where he couldn't reach it.

It made a cool jangling sound, or so we thought. He wasn't so keen on it. After 3 or 4 days of yelling, wheedling, cajoling, someone would finally cave, and remove them. I was just astounded that there wasn't room for him under the pickup. There was room for a good 10 of me. =^..^=

[fixthecopier]

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At the steel plant one year, they decided that the weekend crew needed a white collar worker to watch over us and took this baby faced geek of a design eng. from up north and put him over me and told me to train him. Not that I held a grudge, but on our first day I reverted back to grade school and taped a sign to his back that said " kiss me I am gay" and sent him walking through the main plant looking for empty steel tubs. For some reason he did not like me. He kept sending me for drug test. .... He was a dick and it was worth it, i outlasted him at the plant.

[kingarthur]

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we had a tech that was very nervous after a we told him to be very careful when testing a capacitor, as they had a tendency to go bang, as he was putting his meter on the capacitor i was behind him with a metal bin & a hammer, you should've him jump when i hit the bin.....

the same person we sent out with a small pot with a worn label that we had faked, that just about said "LBO grease"

[fixthecopier]

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Back in High School shop class, we used to send new kids to the tool store room to ask for board stretchers and brick stretchers.

[WOETC]

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In the navy I was in charge of some equipment in a timber lined compartment, containing Navigational equipment, I sent one of my young assistants to get a wooden welding rod for a crack in one of the timber sheets. He went to the engineers, who said they didn't do timber, that was the shipwrights (chippies), the chipppies wanted to know whether he wanted Oxy or arc. I pointed out you couldn't use arc in an electrical compartment. The chippies had unfortunately run out of them and sent him to the dockyard chippies. We kept him busy for the best part of 4 hours.
Another guy was sent to the Sick berth for a six inch seducing rod. The orderly there sent him back with the message that he only had a seven, would that do or should he get an inch cut off.

[KenB]

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Back in High School shop class, we used to send new kids to the tool store room to ask for board stretchers and brick stretchers.

When I was in high school I worked in a department store service center.

I spent the best part of an hour going through parts manuals (all paper back then, of course) trying to find the part number for a "muffler bearing" for one model mini bike. Ha, ha, freakin' ha.

To return the favor, I later had a younger coworker looking for valve wax and piston return springs. That felt good.

[mrwho]

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No never technical can't make joke it is very important and if anything goes wrong in an important time then entire thing screws.

*Snif* *snif*

I smell spam.

[Lagonda]

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[DallasTech]

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We have two techs that like to play pranks, turning the lights off in the bathroom on me and throwing wet paper towels in the stall we have. One day I went in the bathroom and realized the owner was in the stall. So I goto the two techs and tell them the new guy is in the bathroom and they should get him... Needless to say, they turned off the lights, throw boxes at him, while taking a picture with a blackberry (flash turned on). I'm still amazed neither of them got fired.

To this day they have not played any bathroom pranks on me or anyone else. Here is the money shot... bathroomfail.JPG

[Jules Winfield]

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I once changed a coworker's home page on all his internet browsers to NAMBLA's website...

[Akitu]

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I once changed a coworker's home page on all his internet browsers to NAMBLA's website...

So did he really look that much like Marlin Brando?

[Jules Winfield]

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So did he really look that much like Marlin Brando?

No. He looked more like a creepier version of the head bad guy in that Steven Seagal movie "Under Seige". Nice South Park reference, though...