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  • Venom
    Technical/IT Support

    500+ Posts
    • Nov 2009
    • 765

    #1

    [Funny] Best Prank on Another Tech

    1. Working with a tech that thought he was the worlds best tech. Servicing a Panasonic that had black lines on copies so he says...stand back, let the master show you how it's done....he rebuilds the machine and when he wasn't looking I placed the "before" copy on the glass....He turns machine on and presses print and of course the copy comes out with the same lines...the look on his face was priceless.

    2. We put fire crackers with wicks touching the separation corona in a Mita DC111 and told tech to test it because it was sold....platen glass moved halfway and machine exploded with smoke coming out....haha

    3. Hottest day of the year, a tech didn't have air conditioning in his car, I turned dial to hot...so he drive across town and didn't realize until he got to customer's....he was soaked in sweat....lol

    4. We had hired a guy on a rehabilitation program, he had arthritis that would flair up some days and he could barely turn his head some days...We emptied out a drawer of heavy steel tools and placed them in the bottom of his tool case....he managed to carry it to the car (grunting like moaning all the way) and into the customers office and didn't know until he opened the kit to see the extra payload...haha

    5. I took some empty beer bottles and put them in a techs case and covered with a rag, he gets to customer's and grabs rag to clean machine only to look down at the beer bottles in his case...quickly trying to cover up

    6. Another tech changed all of my radio preset stations to the Native Indian radio station

    7. Once I placed a plastic spider on the bookkeeper's keyboard, we stood in the hall and waited but nothing happened so we sat at our benches out back...after 5 minutes we hear her scream, then we hear the receptionist scream, then we hear a customer scream....oops....that kinda back fired.....She took revenge and completely covered my car in shaving cream a week later

    8. Once the other techs made a paper license plate for my car that said "I'm Gay" and taped it over my rear plate.....so I'm at the gas station right next to the office filling up and the gas attendant says "it sure takes a lot of courage for you to come out like that", I said what? he laughed and pointed out the gag to me
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  • ZOOTECH
    Senior member of CRS

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    • Jul 2007
    • 3383

    #2
    Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

    YOU are bad, but very creative. Try putting a couple of "sky shots" in the paper drawers underneath some clean paper and have the new tech test the machine. See how long he troubleshoots that "problem".
    "You can't trust your eyes, if your mind is out of focus" --

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    • blackcat4866
      Master Of The Obvious

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      • Jul 2007
      • 22868

      #3
      Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

      Originally posted by ZOOTECH
      YOU are bad, but very creative. Try putting a couple of "sky shots" in the paper drawers underneath some clean paper and have the new tech test the machine. See how long he troubleshoots that "problem".
      I had someone pull both tricks on me, early on. My co-worker had scrubbed the original back and forth while scanning, then placed one of those wiggly blurry originals on the glass. Then he placed a bunch of used paper in the tray. I caught the used paper right away ... but the "special" original took a while. =^..^=
      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.

      blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=

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      • JR2ALTA
        Service Manager

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        • Feb 2010
        • 2027

        #4
        Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

        Never had anything beyond techs putting a heavy ass flywheel or two in each others tool bag.

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        • banginbishop
          grumpy old git

          500+ Posts
          • Oct 2007
          • 894

          #5
          Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

          put laxatives in a workshop managers coffee and proud of it! he's a total toss pot
          Incontinentia Buttocks

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          • Mr Spock
            Vulcan Inventor of Death

            1,000+ Posts
            • Aug 2006
            • 2064

            #6
            Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

            I copied the color test chart (on a color machine) and put into the paper tray. Then ask another tech to troubleshoot the cq issue. Told him the original was on the glass. He thought he was good until I asked how a b/w could produce color output. It took 10 minutes before he figured that out...
            And Star Trek was just a tv show...yeah right!

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            • Shadow
              PHD in Sh!t Disturbing

              250+ Posts
              • Sep 2011
              • 455

              #7
              Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

              I imbedded another tech's bench tools in a fiberglass resin block, that was when he had to admit he couldn't do any better.

              The squiggly original and sky shots in the paper tray are old classics, I think every new tech has been through those ones.
              $hit Happens - Deal with it and move on.....................................sigpic....................................Lock & Load

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              • emujo
                Field Supervisor

                2,500+ Posts
                • Jun 2009
                • 3009

                #8
                Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

                I left a message for an old boss some time ago..."service issue, please call Mr C. Lyon at 813 XXX-XXXX" Number was really the local aquarium...

                Back in the Navy days, had a co-worker that brought a thermos full of soup every day for lunch..We would pour some of the soup in the cap and then put the thermos back on upside down..He fell for this 2 times, then started checking every day. About 3 days later we took off the cap, removed the inner cap, and replaced the outer cap...still suspicious of us he again turned the thermos upside down to remove the cap and this time the entire contents spilled out onto his lap...Learning moment on this one...never prank someone who can later turn out to be your supervisor...Emujo
                If you don't see your question answered in the forum, please don't think it's OK to PM me for a personal reply...I do not give out firmware and/or manuals.

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                • KenB
                  Geek Extraordinaire

                  2,500+ Posts
                  • Dec 2007
                  • 3945

                  #9
                  Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

                  Just found this one on the Net.

                  Never tried it, but I now have the perfect victim in mind.

                  Muwahahahaha...

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                  • nmfaxman
                    Service Manager

                    Site Contributor
                    1,000+ Posts
                    • Feb 2008
                    • 1705

                    #10
                    Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

                    I once swapped 2 signal connectors to 2 different clutches on a Mita just to mess with the shop tech.
                    He would turn them on in I/O mode and couldn't figure out why the other clutch would fire.

                    I have also copied paperclips and put them back in the drawer. Owner was demoing the machine and was ready to have a fit until an older tech caught on. It was my last day at that company anyway.
                    Why do they call it common sense?

                    If it were common, wouldn't everyone have it?

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                    • Herrmann
                      Senior Tech

                      Site Contributor
                      500+ Posts
                      • Jan 2006
                      • 792

                      #11
                      Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

                      Workmate works on a color laser printer, stripped it down and place all gears springs and so on on his workbench in a special order, after that he went to lunch. I added a little plastic gear to his collection. After reassembling he stood there with this gear in his hand, scratching his head
                      It took some time for him to figure out that one fooled him.
                      If sometimes you feel a little useless, offended and depressed always remember that you were once the fastest and most victorious sperm of hundreds of millions!

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                      • Akitu
                        Legendary Frost Spec Tech

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                        • Oct 2010
                        • 2596

                        #12
                        Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

                        My favourite one would have to have been adding a shutdown command to a web browser... Every time it was clicked, it would instantaneously shut down the computer of the victim. For anyone who'd like to do this, it requires right clicking an existing shortcut on the desktop, going to properties, and adding "Shutdown -s -t 0" to the far right of the target bar, outside of the quotation marks. I do this to everyone I know who still uses internet explorer. My family hates it, but they've learned to love their much faster, newer web browsers...
                        Cthulhu for president! Why settle for the lesser evil?

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                        • blackcat4866
                          Master Of The Obvious

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                          • Jul 2007
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                          #13
                          Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

                          This one was an unintentional prank on me.

                          I was just finishing up a call at the end of the day. It was a Mita DC-313Z and I was just making the very last copy of the service log before leaving. The paper got about 25mm out of the exit before the machine just died/no power.

                          I was stricken. What now! I was just thinking about leaving!

                          Alas, nothing to do but open up the tool case and troubleshoot the problem. As with all power issues, I grab my meter and follow the cord, follow, ... follow, ... follow the cord to the 15A timer it was plugged into! This enduser thought it was just too inconvenient to reach over and flip off the power switch at the end of the day.

                          Anyone familiar with this model knows that this power supply gets unstable with age. It can last for many years, right up to the time that your turn it off, and it never wakes up again. The manuals always tell you to turn off the machine and unplug it whenever serviced, but that's usually the precipitating event that kills the power supply. Maybe that's why I do as much work as I can with the machine live.

                          Anyway it was a good joke on me. =^..^=
                          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.

                          blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=

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                          • HenryT2
                            Senior Tech

                            500+ Posts
                            • Apr 2010
                            • 962

                            #14
                            Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

                            I have put flashers in the socket of a bench lamp . The tech would turn on the lamp , it would start flickering , he would turn it off ; turn it so the bulb was facing up , ( got lucky on that and the flasher did not fall out ) try a different bulb ... on and on .
                            Finally he starts taking the entire lamp apart ... while he was out of the room , I took the flasher out . He could not find anything wrong , and it worked OK when he put it back together.
                            The next week , I put clear tape on the prongs of the electric cord of the same lamp. YEP , he took it apart again , but, this time it did not work when reassembled .
                            He put it over on an unused bench . I went and got it , set it on my bench and when he was not looking , cut the tape off , plugged it in and ' WOO HOO ' it worked . Boy , did he get miffed . We pulled the TAPE trick a few more times before he retired and he never caught on .
                            "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 .

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                            • Brian8506
                              Service Manager

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                              • Feb 2009
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                              #15
                              Re: Best Prank on Another Tech

                              A salesman asked me to prep a used IR2200 that was going out that day. After checking the machine out, I went to him with the copies, thats right, the mirror image copies, and told him he had a serious problem. Wish I could have been taking his pulse at that moment.

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