tricks played on apprentices

[CMAC]

there are fun jokes..... long weights, spirit bubbles etc are fun and we had a good laugh at many a persons expense, however, I also witnessed bullying and intimidation that crossed the line in the name of a 'good laugh at work'.

If anyone doesnt know the difference and condones it then you are a very sad individual indeed.

 

[Liverbirdie]

In the spares office, we used ask the new lads to return a call back to a Mr. C lion from Chester Zoo.

 

[sawtooth]

This brings me back all those years ago. I also remember glass hammer and based in electronics I got told to run down to stores for resistor paint.

And people did leave charged capacitors lying around for a laugh.

 

[JustOne]

I remember microwave refill bottles... donut holes... lots of left/right handed tools...

We sent one guy to the bank once for £200 worth of pennies which was brilliant as he came back with a wheelbarrow from somewhere!!

 

[Region3]

You've lived a sheltered life my friend. The things we've done to lads at football would probably put you into an early grave. I guess that makes me a bad person.

If by sheltered, you mean sheltered underneath 3 or 4 lads all bigger than me at school while they had 'a laugh' then yes I guess I have.

I'd challenge you to a battle of wits but unlike some I won't fight an unarmed opponent.

I'm out of here before I get myself banned.

 

[beau d.]

I worked in the pits, we often had areas of nuisance water lying in roadways, so a deep hole was dug and a pump installed to clear this constant nuisance water. The hole was called a "pound hole" (no idea why). A young lad was on the main gate belt button at the road end, playing about we told him to watch out for the pound hole we were putting on the belt. He kept calling on the intercome it hasn't got to me yet. He was told it must have fell off the belt somewhere, he spent the rest of the shift crawling back side of the belt looking for the pound hole.....Happy Days

 

[Slime]

I used to own a workshop & witnessed many of the aforementioned jokes.
I once phoned the manager of a well known motor factors, whom I knew very well, and asked him to find a water pump for a '72 VW Beetle. He called me a while later when he suddenly twigged.
We also sent an apprentice to Halfords for a can of synchromesh for an old Mini. He returned empty handed as Halfords were, apparently, out of stock.

Slime.

 

[SocketRocket]

I remember when I worked in the Aerospace industry the Coppersmiths made a kind of instrument that had a pipe at one end, a bowl at the other that had a kind of small waterwheel in it. They used to ask people to blow down the pipe that rotated the wheel, they then timed you to see how long you could keep the wheel turning then noted the time with the promise of a prize for the one who kept it turning the longest. What they didn't explain was there was a small hole in the bowl and the bowl was full of soot, as you blew a fine mist of soot slowly covered your face so you became blacker the longer you lasted. It was funny to see people walking around the factory unaware they had black faces.

 

[JustOne]

I'd challenge you to a battle of wits but unlike some I won't fight an unarmed opponent.

:thup:

 

[Sharktooth]

I remember when I worked in the Aerospace industry the Coppersmiths made a kind of instrument that had a pipe at one end, a bowl at the other that had a kind of small waterwheel in it. They used to ask people to blow down the pipe that rotated the wheel, they then timed you to see how long you could keep the wheel turning then noted the time with the promise of a prize for the one who kept it turning the longest. What they didn't explain was there was a small hole in the bowl and the bowl was full of soot, as you blew a fine mist of soot slowly covered your face so you became blacker the longer you lasted. It was funny to see people walking around the factory unaware they had black faces.

We used to use that one on the young divers and tell them it was a 'lung tester.' Would get run-off for that now

 

[D4RK1]

If by sheltered, you mean sheltered underneath 3 or 4 lads all bigger than me at school while they had 'a laugh' then yes I guess I have.

I'd challenge you to a battle of wits but unlike some I won't fight an unarmed opponent.

I'm out of here before I get myself banned.

Good form skipper :cheers:

 

[DappaDonDave]

This was not a tricked played on one of our apprentices, but an example of how dumb some are (he was an habitual weed smoker so may explain it)

Basically he needs to travel from Fleetwood to Mereside (Blackpool), the first week he got a car he didn't think to drive to work to get his bearings whilst he was driving around with his mates. He decides to use a free sat nav app on his iPhone to get him to work. He usually turned up about 8:45 when he was on the bus, but this Monday he wasn't in at that time. So we thought he may have been having a nap and coming in a little bit later (which is fine - Flexitime), it starts getting to 9:30, 9:40...9:45 and we are getting nervous, we check his facebook, no posts. We start deciding when is best to ring him/his house when he turns up at 9:55.

The standard journey to work is on the left side of the attached, you could aternatively go down Blackpool prom. But this sat nav, and probably his lack of common sense had taken him on a detour to Stalmine, which, bearing in mind this kid was born and bred local is in the complete opposite direction to work. It is also across a river! But it didn't twig with him until he'd driven for 20 mins in the wrong direction that he was probably not heading towards work.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

My wife's elderly aunt switched on the sat nav of her new car as she was entering Yarmouth.
She could not understand why it kept sending her out of the town.
She stopped at a garage to seek help and the friendly mechanic told her she should have put in Great Yarmouth as the sat nav was directing her to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight.

 

[blackpuddinmonster]

My wife's elderly aunt switched on the sat nav of her new car as she was entering Yarmouth.
She could not understand why it kept sending her out of the town.
She stopped at a garage to seek help and the friendly mechanic told her she should have put in Great Yarmouth as the sat nav was directing her to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight.

And if your a Turkish lorry driver, you certainly don't want to be getting Gibraltar and Gibraltar Point (Lincolnshire) mixed up.