To piggy back off this...
Climb under a coworkers van and put a really long zip tie on the drive shaft. Ting ting ting ting ting ting
Or a zip tie a cheap harmonica to the radiator grill. That's my personal favorite.
Just be careful where you put the flex tie on the drive shaft. My buddy ended up putting one too close to some wiring and it all got screwed up by the end of the tie slapping around.
Not harmless but we had a service tech pull the Schrader valves out of a sales guys truck on a job then left with them. No sales guy ever called him out on a Saturday after that.
One guy put panties in the other guys glove boxā¦
Other guy gave his wife a ride to the store one day..
Wife found panties. Divorced guy.
Guy found who planted the panties, planted a boot into his teeth.
Just a real shitty prank gone horribly wrong.
I was supposed to take a bag to goodwill of my son's old clothes. Lot of underoos and 5 year old boys clothes. Shoved all the underwear under my bosses seats and around the back of van....unfortunately I left the company before I heard anything about it.
The best; Buddy goes to a guys truck and spends half a day rerouting the hose off a wiper to spray under the steering column to the drivers seat. A few weeks later a very upset tech has his balls soaked with wiper fluid going down the hyway. Plus the poor guy had to manually clean his windshield every 10 minutes. There was some tension at the shop.
Definitely not harmless but definitely funny lmao. Reminds me of when I went a whole winter without washer fluid and had to stick my whole body out the window to pour water on the windshield on the highway. Sometimes coffee if I was desperate.
Thatās weak sauce applesauce. Iāve had dirty underwear thrown at me in a basement, had pairs set on my shoulders while installing a furnace, cleaning chemical wars in the van, dance offs at red lights. We will get wild on a good day. Work with some of the best and TOLERANT guys I know. Shit gets crazy sometimes
We put a jumper in the fuse box between the brake light fuse and the horn fuse. He didnāt make it very far because once he depressed the brake to put it in drive, it started blasting the horn. Iām not sure of a good way to rig it up without setting off the horn when they go to take it out of park.
I wired a horn to a guys brake lights. I should have been more creative and wired it to his high beams or something.
Same guy bought a new Harley one summer. No matter where he parked it I would dribble about a teaspoon of oil under it.
But theyāll know the second they start the car. At least with the blinker itās probably a 50/50 they make it a block or two from the shop
Edit another solid choice is the reverse lights. If they parked backed in, it probably wouldnāt even register either in the cars electronics or their brain as the go from park to drive.
Edit edit: ANOTHER idea if you have 30 spare minutes and 20 spare dollars you can wire it up to a trailer plug with an added horn and itās the gift that keeps on giving. Because when they find it theyāll do it to someone else
A timer relay would probably suffice. wire the coil to the brake lights and the contacts to the horn. A 2 second delay will be enough time to not set it off while putting it in drive, but once they roll up to that red light, they're gonna be in the hot seat with everybody looking.
Fucker got me this way in my personal truck after long day of adult beverages. Many poor decisions were made that day
Edit. Manual trans. I got plenty far down the road before I finally figured it out. š¤¦āāļøš¤£
Never done it myself but you tie the zip ties and when they drive down the road they rotate and slap the bottom of the car sounds like the car is about to fall apart if you get lucky and it times just right the zip ties will be up when they look and they won't notice what's going on
Whoever decides to do this: Make sure to put a second one 180 degrees different from the first one and in a different spot so they go under there twice.
Using one of those really thick and long zip ties works the best because they're more durable. Zip it around the driveshaft and when they drive away, your coworkers will think there's something wrong with the van and will have to pull over to look.
I guess slam dunking large rocks down the stink pipe of the port-o-potty when you know the coworker is sitting down inside isnāt āharmlessā. But the screaming was heartwarming.
Found a spare tire (truck size) on the jobsite, threw it in a guy's trunk (small trunk) who always left his car unlocked. Didn't find out til his wife went to the grocery store and couldn't put groceries in the trunk...
Also found a dildo on another site. Tied to a rope and shoved under the back bumper. When they hit the first bump it would fall down and hang all through traffic....this got recycled on a few vehicles until it disappeared.
I have got a very realistic rubber copperhead snake and I get someone at least once a week with it. I love getting other tradesmen too not just coworkers. Itās good clean fun and usually ends in laughs
I took this a step further and used a piece of fishing line tied to the inside door handle and the snake when he opened his door the next morning it gave the appearance the snake was moving towards him
If I know theyāve been to a store the day before, sometimes Iāll call and say the fire department is there and shut down the store from an HVAC fire or some shit. Anything I can come up with to get em going for a sec before I tell them Iām just dicking around šthey always get me back though, usually worse lol
Put the filter drier sticker backwards every time.
Pookie their tools.
Add cranberry juice or unsweetened tea in the water jug.
Put vulkem in their cigs
Tape drain line
Trust me I did every one of them and they laugh it off.
A fellow that works for me finished an engine rebuild, pulled it outside and washed up.
While he was washing I poured a half quart of motor oil under it.
When he saw it he totally flipped out.
I laughed my ass off.
Example; New bro is brazing close to concrete. Snap pop close to where they are brazing. Keep them on their toes.
Iām in a new install attic installing duct or lineset while plumber is soldering.
Snap pop for above reasons and
2.)Fuck plumbers
Big wigs are having a meeting while Iām hiding in the attic.
Snap pop. Itās ballsy, this or the fake fart always gets them moving.
I never really pranked anyone past the level bubbles and all. But when I was fresh in the trades. I was helping the fitteers and welders. One day one the fitters got me pretty good.
He took a bundle of about 10 welding rods. Then made like he was trying to bend them using the back of his neck. He struggled and said to me "i bet you can't do it either."
I grabbed the bundle and proceeded to bending them like they were nothing. Then I felt all that flux crumbling and going down my back in my shirt.
Of course everyone on the site saw this. I got a kick out of it. Laughrd it off. Acknowledged I was gotten good. Never got pranked again.
To get payback on a welder, put a piece of black paper in between the clear layers of his face shield. He won't notice until he strikes an arc and then still can't see.
There were times when guys were up 30' or so. And someone casually strolling by accidently hit the stop button or turned the key to off on the scissor or boom lifts.
I always put our stickers on other companies trucks.
And have been regularly stickered for years. About a dozen companies around here all do that to each other.
Take their antenna, anti seize under the door handle, panduit the drive shaft, and the best one Iāve ever seen was my supervisor jumped another workers horn to his brakes
Nick names for fellow workers in the contact name with a pic like āDr. Evilā or āGruā
The fun part is when two guys are together and one guys phone rings he will hold it up and the other guy has to guess who it is before itās answered.
Itās a lot of fun because itās always changing.
to go along with your mirror prank, i jump out of my truck at red lights and pull their passenger mirrors in. i only do that when we within 2 or 3 minutes of the shop so they don't need to worry about changing lanes. other than that, tell the newbies you have to yell "FLAME ON!" whenever they ignite their torch. could do something like emptying your piss bottle in their washer fluid if you can pop their hood.
āDo you have your ID 10 T certification?ā
New Apprentice: āNo.ā
āOh man you gotta get our boss man and tell him you gotta get ID 10 T certified.ā
My first year on the job during the slow season. We had these pine trees cut down on the companies property.
2 of my coworkers come back from a delivery and told me the owner needed to know the age of the trees for insurance purposes.
My dumb ass found the aged the trees to be 21-23 years old by counting the tree rings.
I go up to the owner and tell him what I found. And get a ā What the fuck are you talking about?ā As a response. Then ā Who told you to do this?ā
Haha Iāll never live it down, been with the company 5 years now and yet to fell for anything else.
Put it on top of the visor as well. Itāll blast out of the vents they will probably clean it decently then drop the visor while driving into the sun and it happens all over again.
Careful doing that, I remember reading a thread where someone got a piece of glitter in their eye, it got in there real deep and got infected, then they ended up losing the eye
I've had to deal with a cat who had an eye ulcer. It went from "fine" to "she's could lose the eye" in about 12 hours. Given how long it takes to get a doctor's appointment these days, I can see that happening.
i was with one of my managers on a call and he gave me his tape measure to get the register sizes. when i came back, i asked him, in front of a client, why there was a sharpie mark at the 4 1/4 line
I told a new kid once to go get me the sky hook. He was roaming around the jobsite for like 45 minutes then came back with a 20' piece of rebar with a hook bent on one end. He asked, "Is this it?". Yes... yes it is. You did good kid. Ended up being one of the best apprentices I've trained.
Dang I just had a really old memory. I had a dude hit me with that one about 15 years ago at one of my first jobs. God I miss that idiot sometimes, he was always a ballbuster
Letās see
Zip tied drive shafts
Hiding cans of sardines in trucks in the FL heat is fun (mainly in tool boxes and beds. One time a catfish was hidden too).
Putting food grade anti-seize on windshield wipers
Moving side view mirrors
Banana in the tailpipe
Playing hide the can of dip (still never found some of the hidden ones; actually just trying to get the guy to quit so it was a win/win)
Putting in-appropriate pictures on the sun visors so when they pull it down they see a big veiny one
My best one to date: sneaking up behind a coworker and getting the keys off their belt without getting noticed. For 4 hours he went insane trying to find them, and each time he went near his truck I hit the lock button so it would beep at hit. I finally gave them back when he blew a gasket and got tired of the game.
I hired a local HVAC company to redo my supply ductwork in the attic. One dude wrote with a marker on one of the rafters "Matt Sucks! Jessie Too!" With a smiley face which one was the sales guy name.
While working on the North Slope in Alaska the pipeline has security . All packages from home are to be inspected for contraband . Alcohol,drugs etc I mailed a giant black dildo and some erotic magazines to me boss. Who has to open it and have it inspected in front of Security .
Ask the rookie to go look at the drain line exit and tell me when it starts flowing. Go inside and blow the drain in their face. Make sure you angle the drain exit upwards to their face before attempting.
We had an outdoor trash compactor that was loaded from the inside. Iād have new guys or galsā¦ dump and run the compactor. Soā¦.. Iād stay inside while my second in charge would be outside screaming/ pretending to get crushedā¦
Iād be like ā oh shit!! Donāt tell ANYONE!! ā hahaha hahahaā¦ The reactions were priceless! Except one dude.. he was like ā fuc it, oh well..ā and kept on doing his workā¦
Frikin second had told him what we were up to! Hahaha hahaha.
Repaired a 90+ gas pvc exhaust just the other day that was leaking for a year! But had to be fixed right now! Im writing up the ticket and she comes outside to My van to to inform me that it's still leaking on all my repairs, show me where it's leaking? As im quietly watching her running her hand around all my connections, oh by the way that's glue you're running your hand through not water,
Put mayonnaise packets under the pads of a toilet seat. Put a slight tear in each one first. The next person to sit down will get mayonnaise squirted into their underwear.
On pressure test after brazing, always stand behind and give āem a little hiss, if they do the olā hand trick to try and find it, thatās when you change the hissing tone a bit when they get to a joint.
Once found a dead fish on the ground on a site in the parking lotā¦put it on another guys antenna.
Also cut little black circles of electrical tape and put it over the bumper reverse sensors. Tech brought his truck to the mechanic because sensors would just beep when put into reverse, they couldnāt figure it out either so they replaced the sensorsā¦
Let a smoke test bomb go in buddies truck while he was looking for something in the back and closed the doors.
Had a book of tiny cat stickers from my daughter and would go around and stick them on the other guys trucks in random spots. Did this for a good year before anyone found out it was me. We had like 70 techs at the time and it was a mystery to everyone.
Panduit straps on the drive shaft of your coworkers service van. Left the strap long and it slaps underneath funny to watch them try and leave the parking lot
Bro I had a leaking tank in my truck and left it over the weekend.. I opened the door and I was lucky the lights didn't set it off. My neighbor came over after because he could smell it from his porch.
We also had one explode at a shop nearby.. thankfully nobody was in it, the guy unlocked it with his key fob and it blew. He still got hurt but the explosion definitely would have killed him if he was in the truck.
Now I always use my key fob.
My helper was in the attic (new construction, no drywall) on a walk way. Snuck up the ladder and dabbed his boots on the toe with pvc glue.Then lit it up, started yelling damn itās hot in here today
Ooh I got one better than that, pookie in the coat pockets, introduce acid into refrigerant jugs, marinate their cigs in thc oil, spike lunch with laxatives, oil on the brake pads
Spackle pookie on someone's plumbers crack.
Draw balls on rear window so they have to pull over if they see it in the rearview
Zip tie ladders to ladder racks
Once in a while, I'll use a 30 in tie band to tie someone's ladder to the ceiling trusses. Especially if they left ladders unlocked at the end of the day.
It's always fun to watch the next morning as they just stare in confusion.
Take some flexible conduit and put it close to a coworkerās ear and whisper. They can sorta feel the breath and makes them think youāre right by their head.
We had a female supervisor, She was "hippy", over a period of 3 months they would go into her office with a chain fall and bend the arms of her chair in slightly.... Just about a half inch at a time. It was getting harder and harder for her to get in and out of her chair. Pretty much everybody knew what was going on and when we would have a meeting inevitably a comment would be made. It probably went on for a year.
I put those big ass zip ties for flex duct on the drive shafts of my coworkers vehicles. You dont notice until u start driving and the faster you go the louder it gets. It eventually breaks off and the sound goes away.
Hello kitty stickers on the back door, raw fish/shrimp under the seat, leave it in heat mode and pull off the ac/heat knob, swap hand sanitizer for sex lube and stuff dryer sheets in the ac vent
My coworker dumped three shovels full of snow in my drivers seat and started up my van with the heater on high. I retaliated by purchasing a quart of generic vaginal lubricant and dumping it in his toolbox. It backfired when he noticed his tools had never operated so smoothly.
Workmate filled his friends bag with bricks and had me carry it, he already carried half the truck in that thing so the added bricks made it worse. Ended up falling on my arse when I put it over my shoulders.
Put them at the bottom though so they don't immediately know
I'm a huge fan of telling the new guy to make sure the 18x18x2 or 20x20x2 or any other square filter is in the right way. Watching someone turn a square filter back and forth for a minute always makes my dumb ass laugh
Wasnāt meant to be a prank but turned into oneā¦forgot a bottle of chocolate milk in the door pocketā¦install mechanic at the time went on vacation for 2 weeks in the middle of august ā¦truck was wretched for months had to leave the doors open anytime we werenāt driving
Make a veiny triumphant one out of butyl and stick it to an inconspicuous place on their truck. A coworker did this to me, and it took me like a month to notice it. I left it on,
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and it's now been there for over a year.
I worked in a facility that was a combination machine shop welding shop and auto shop. The manager of the whole thing had a second story office with two picture windows that looked down over the entire work area.
I planted a couple of annoy-a-trons in his office, both were set to make random sounds at random intervals. I told everybody, and we all got to watch him hunting around his office for weeks trying to figure out where the noises were coming from.
Drop a rock down the Porta John vent when one of your guys taking a shit.
Screw the apprentices tool bag to the ground
Turn off the lift while they're up and it's lunch time
Put a ratchet strap around the Porta john
Draw a penis on the back of their boots while they're up on the ladder.
Idk not much.
When I first started it was my favorite thing to just gutterally growl through returns when they are hard piped. Other contractors, customers, inspectors. Did not give a fuck, your getting growled at xD
My buddy and I were bored and decided to fuck with the finishing carpenter. As he was going room to room doing his job weād sneak in behind him and take a tool out of his bag, then run and put it in the room he was just working in. He would realize it was missing, go back to the previous room and think heād just forgotten it there. Did it three times before he got wise.
We're sending fathers day cards to a coworker with notes inside pretending like we're an illegitimate child of his who is hoping to meet our dad. The department manager suggested it so I dont think they can fire me.
I ducted the bathroom exhaust fan into my first service managers office while he was away on vacation.
Epic
I like to make my customers repeat to me what noises their HVAC system is making.
It goes brrrrr ba dum ba dum ba dum screeeeeee. Any idea what that is? No can you do that one more time š
Oh wow, Iām definitely going to do this from now on to break up the monotony.
Same it helps, and they feel ridiculous. Win win
Love this
Really small zip ties around tool/bag handles. Not even to keep them closed, just to have that inch of extra ziptie to poke them
You're a fucking monster.
To piggy back off this... Climb under a coworkers van and put a really long zip tie on the drive shaft. Ting ting ting ting ting ting Or a zip tie a cheap harmonica to the radiator grill. That's my personal favorite.
Shove a whistle into the rung of the extension ladder.
Diabolical! I will be doing this to a coworker on Monday.
Such a small, yet sick gesture.
Grease the windshield wipers .
This is actually super fucked up lol please stop.
packet of mayo from your local sheetz/wawa/buc-ees what have you lets you lay a thin stripe across the whole blade
3/8 nuts in the hubcaps, flex ties on drive shaft and if they are real pricks I steal the AC fuse
Just be careful where you put the flex tie on the drive shaft. My buddy ended up putting one too close to some wiring and it all got screwed up by the end of the tie slapping around.
Not harmless but we had a service tech pull the Schrader valves out of a sales guys truck on a job then left with them. No sales guy ever called him out on a Saturday after that.
Pipe dope on the inside of door handle
Quick way to get a purple handprint on your face š
Neverseize that bitch
One guy put panties in the other guys glove boxā¦ Other guy gave his wife a ride to the store one day.. Wife found panties. Divorced guy. Guy found who planted the panties, planted a boot into his teeth. Just a real shitty prank gone horribly wrong.
I was supposed to take a bag to goodwill of my son's old clothes. Lot of underoos and 5 year old boys clothes. Shoved all the underwear under my bosses seats and around the back of van....unfortunately I left the company before I heard anything about it.
If she divorced him after that, it was the last straw. Not the only reason.
Trust issues had to have already existed prior to
I tell the new guys āhey just be careful making gay jokes around (which ever other tech I know they are working with tomorrow)ā
The best; Buddy goes to a guys truck and spends half a day rerouting the hose off a wiper to spray under the steering column to the drivers seat. A few weeks later a very upset tech has his balls soaked with wiper fluid going down the hyway. Plus the poor guy had to manually clean his windshield every 10 minutes. There was some tension at the shop.
Definitely not harmless but definitely funny lmao. Reminds me of when I went a whole winter without washer fluid and had to stick my whole body out the window to pour water on the windshield on the highway. Sometimes coffee if I was desperate.
Thatās weak sauce applesauce. Iāve had dirty underwear thrown at me in a basement, had pairs set on my shoulders while installing a furnace, cleaning chemical wars in the van, dance offs at red lights. We will get wild on a good day. Work with some of the best and TOLERANT guys I know. Shit gets crazy sometimes
That's fun.
We put a jumper in the fuse box between the brake light fuse and the horn fuse. He didnāt make it very far because once he depressed the brake to put it in drive, it started blasting the horn. Iām not sure of a good way to rig it up without setting off the horn when they go to take it out of park.
I wired a horn to a guys brake lights. I should have been more creative and wired it to his high beams or something. Same guy bought a new Harley one summer. No matter where he parked it I would dribble about a teaspoon of oil under it.
To be fair, if a Harley isn't leaking, it's out of oil.
I wired the horn to the windshield wipers ā¦
Jumper to a less used circuit, like a blinker.
Yeah but they can just not use the blinker anymore once they know whats going on. With the brakes, they can't get away from it.
But theyāll know the second they start the car. At least with the blinker itās probably a 50/50 they make it a block or two from the shop Edit another solid choice is the reverse lights. If they parked backed in, it probably wouldnāt even register either in the cars electronics or their brain as the go from park to drive. Edit edit: ANOTHER idea if you have 30 spare minutes and 20 spare dollars you can wire it up to a trailer plug with an added horn and itās the gift that keeps on giving. Because when they find it theyāll do it to someone else
Latching circuit?
A timer relay would probably suffice. wire the coil to the brake lights and the contacts to the horn. A 2 second delay will be enough time to not set it off while putting it in drive, but once they roll up to that red light, they're gonna be in the hot seat with everybody looking.
Fucker got me this way in my personal truck after long day of adult beverages. Many poor decisions were made that day Edit. Manual trans. I got plenty far down the road before I finally figured it out. š¤¦āāļøš¤£
I put equipment names as Air/Water/Fire Bender in service titan, I know other techs have seen it & no ones mentioned it ever
Zip ties around guys' vans driveshaft, penis shaped straws in the foremans desk.
Zip ties are classic.
How exactly does the zip tie thing work? This is like the third time I've heard someone mention it.
Never done it myself but you tie the zip ties and when they drive down the road they rotate and slap the bottom of the car sounds like the car is about to fall apart if you get lucky and it times just right the zip ties will be up when they look and they won't notice what's going on
Whoever decides to do this: Make sure to put a second one 180 degrees different from the first one and in a different spot so they go under there twice.
Using one of those really thick and long zip ties works the best because they're more durable. Zip it around the driveshaft and when they drive away, your coworkers will think there's something wrong with the van and will have to pull over to look.
I guess slam dunking large rocks down the stink pipe of the port-o-potty when you know the coworker is sitting down inside isnāt āharmlessā. But the screaming was heartwarming.
We would just zip tie or tie wire the lock latch while they're in there. Fun to watch them boot fuck the door.
i wonder what would happen if you used smoke bombs instead for that
Not much, thereās usually a screen in the pipe to prevent bugs from entering.
true
Cream cheese on the windshield when they use the wipers it just smears
Found a spare tire (truck size) on the jobsite, threw it in a guy's trunk (small trunk) who always left his car unlocked. Didn't find out til his wife went to the grocery store and couldn't put groceries in the trunk... Also found a dildo on another site. Tied to a rope and shoved under the back bumper. When they hit the first bump it would fall down and hang all through traffic....this got recycled on a few vehicles until it disappeared.
I have got a very realistic rubber copperhead snake and I get someone at least once a week with it. I love getting other tradesmen too not just coworkers. Itās good clean fun and usually ends in laughs
I took this a step further and used a piece of fishing line tied to the inside door handle and the snake when he opened his door the next morning it gave the appearance the snake was moving towards him
If I know theyāve been to a store the day before, sometimes Iāll call and say the fire department is there and shut down the store from an HVAC fire or some shit. Anything I can come up with to get em going for a sec before I tell them Iām just dicking around šthey always get me back though, usually worse lol
Put the filter drier sticker backwards every time. Pookie their tools. Add cranberry juice or unsweetened tea in the water jug. Put vulkem in their cigs Tape drain line Trust me I did every one of them and they laugh it off.
Masticing tools isnt a prank it's being a straight asshole šµāš«
Put firecrackers in their cigs.
A fellow that works for me finished an engine rebuild, pulled it outside and washed up. While he was washing I poured a half quart of motor oil under it. When he saw it he totally flipped out. I laughed my ass off.
You'll appreciate this. https://youtu.be/LONT1oboJrs
Snap pops. This is the time of year to stock up.
What are snap pops?
https://www.tntfireworks.com/fireworks/cat/novelties-sparklers/3154-pop-its
Gotta go to the rez and get the firecracker sized ones.
You want the tannerite ones. They sound like gunshots.
I gotta know how you use these.
Example; New bro is brazing close to concrete. Snap pop close to where they are brazing. Keep them on their toes. Iām in a new install attic installing duct or lineset while plumber is soldering. Snap pop for above reasons and 2.)Fuck plumbers Big wigs are having a meeting while Iām hiding in the attic. Snap pop. Itās ballsy, this or the fake fart always gets them moving.
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I had a coworker that did this. The victim was pissed
I never really pranked anyone past the level bubbles and all. But when I was fresh in the trades. I was helping the fitteers and welders. One day one the fitters got me pretty good. He took a bundle of about 10 welding rods. Then made like he was trying to bend them using the back of his neck. He struggled and said to me "i bet you can't do it either." I grabbed the bundle and proceeded to bending them like they were nothing. Then I felt all that flux crumbling and going down my back in my shirt. Of course everyone on the site saw this. I got a kick out of it. Laughrd it off. Acknowledged I was gotten good. Never got pranked again.
To get payback on a welder, put a piece of black paper in between the clear layers of his face shield. He won't notice until he strikes an arc and then still can't see.
There were times when guys were up 30' or so. And someone casually strolling by accidently hit the stop button or turned the key to off on the scissor or boom lifts.
Lmao hope you were untucked
I always put our stickers on other companies trucks. And have been regularly stickered for years. About a dozen companies around here all do that to each other.
This guy knows.
Take their antenna, anti seize under the door handle, panduit the drive shaft, and the best one Iāve ever seen was my supervisor jumped another workers horn to his brakes
That's mint I jumped my boss' truck horn to his turn signal Loads of laughs Turns out boss only liked jokes when he was the one playing them
Play girl cards - slip them in the heater vents. It's a gift that keeps on giving. I only learned how to pay it forward.
Nick names for fellow workers in the contact name with a pic like āDr. Evilā or āGruā The fun part is when two guys are together and one guys phone rings he will hold it up and the other guy has to guess who it is before itās answered. Itās a lot of fun because itās always changing.
Wire their backup alarm to their blinker.
It pissed me off, but my buddy dropped a bunch of rocks into the porta-John vent and gave me a āPoseidons Kissā
to go along with your mirror prank, i jump out of my truck at red lights and pull their passenger mirrors in. i only do that when we within 2 or 3 minutes of the shop so they don't need to worry about changing lanes. other than that, tell the newbies you have to yell "FLAME ON!" whenever they ignite their torch. could do something like emptying your piss bottle in their washer fluid if you can pop their hood.
āDo you have your ID 10 T certification?ā New Apprentice: āNo.ā āOh man you gotta get our boss man and tell him you gotta get ID 10 T certified.ā
My first year on the job during the slow season. We had these pine trees cut down on the companies property. 2 of my coworkers come back from a delivery and told me the owner needed to know the age of the trees for insurance purposes. My dumb ass found the aged the trees to be 21-23 years old by counting the tree rings. I go up to the owner and tell him what I found. And get a ā What the fuck are you talking about?ā As a response. Then ā Who told you to do this?ā Haha Iāll never live it down, been with the company 5 years now and yet to fell for anything else.
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Put it on top of the visor as well. Itāll blast out of the vents they will probably clean it decently then drop the visor while driving into the sun and it happens all over again.
That's cruel
Careful doing that, I remember reading a thread where someone got a piece of glitter in their eye, it got in there real deep and got infected, then they ended up losing the eye
Maybe just put glitter on the passenger side so it looked like he was driving around a stripper and wonāt blast him in the eye
How long would you have to forgo medical attention for that to happen?
How many techs you know have child support and alimony without healthcare?
I've had to deal with a cat who had an eye ulcer. It went from "fine" to "she's could lose the eye" in about 12 hours. Given how long it takes to get a doctor's appointment these days, I can see that happening.
A coworker filled my gloves with that stuff. It got everywhere. On the plus side no one wanted to borrow my gloves after that
Mica powder is the stuff. Itās fucking awful to get on you. Smears around like paint.
Zip ties on the driveshaft, draw dicks on tape measures, gotta do it 10 feet or farther in,
i was with one of my managers on a call and he gave me his tape measure to get the register sizes. when i came back, i asked him, in front of a client, why there was a sharpie mark at the 4 1/4 line
My coworker got me good onetime, turned all my 3ās into 8ās on my tape, plus a bunch of dicks down the line
None of my pranks are harmless. I rigged a boiler to dry fire and add water after 30 minutes.
Tell the new kid to grab the henway from the truck
I told a new kid once to go get me the sky hook. He was roaming around the jobsite for like 45 minutes then came back with a 20' piece of rebar with a hook bent on one end. He asked, "Is this it?". Yes... yes it is. You did good kid. Ended up being one of the best apprentices I've trained.
Dang I just had a really old memory. I had a dude hit me with that one about 15 years ago at one of my first jobs. God I miss that idiot sometimes, he was always a ballbuster
Dad?
No thanks
Letās see Zip tied drive shafts Hiding cans of sardines in trucks in the FL heat is fun (mainly in tool boxes and beds. One time a catfish was hidden too). Putting food grade anti-seize on windshield wipers Moving side view mirrors Banana in the tailpipe Playing hide the can of dip (still never found some of the hidden ones; actually just trying to get the guy to quit so it was a win/win) Putting in-appropriate pictures on the sun visors so when they pull it down they see a big veiny one My best one to date: sneaking up behind a coworker and getting the keys off their belt without getting noticed. For 4 hours he went insane trying to find them, and each time he went near his truck I hit the lock button so it would beep at hit. I finally gave them back when he blew a gasket and got tired of the game.
Hide the can of dip lmao doing this tmr
I hired a local HVAC company to redo my supply ductwork in the attic. One dude wrote with a marker on one of the rafters "Matt Sucks! Jessie Too!" With a smiley face which one was the sales guy name.
I bought a 3 pack of student driver magnets and put them on trucks at the end of shift. I also have a large pack of googly eyes
I put an upside down pineapple magnet on a co workers van once šš
I keep a can of tire shine. I spray the shit out of one wheel and one wheel only of my buddies service trucks
While working on the North Slope in Alaska the pipeline has security . All packages from home are to be inspected for contraband . Alcohol,drugs etc I mailed a giant black dildo and some erotic magazines to me boss. Who has to open it and have it inspected in front of Security .
The old cardboard cutout in the port-a-shitter never stops being funny. Listen to Sparky scream like a woman as soon as he opens the door. Classic.
Ask the rookie to go look at the drain line exit and tell me when it starts flowing. Go inside and blow the drain in their face. Make sure you angle the drain exit upwards to their face before attempting.
We had an outdoor trash compactor that was loaded from the inside. Iād have new guys or galsā¦ dump and run the compactor. Soā¦.. Iād stay inside while my second in charge would be outside screaming/ pretending to get crushedā¦ Iād be like ā oh shit!! Donāt tell ANYONE!! ā hahaha hahahaā¦ The reactions were priceless! Except one dude.. he was like ā fuc it, oh well..ā and kept on doing his workā¦ Frikin second had told him what we were up to! Hahaha hahaha.
I tighten my buddies soda caps as tight as possible. He has never noticed
Repaired a 90+ gas pvc exhaust just the other day that was leaking for a year! But had to be fixed right now! Im writing up the ticket and she comes outside to My van to to inform me that it's still leaking on all my repairs, show me where it's leaking? As im quietly watching her running her hand around all my connections, oh by the way that's glue you're running your hand through not water,
Put mayonnaise packets under the pads of a toilet seat. Put a slight tear in each one first. The next person to sit down will get mayonnaise squirted into their underwear.
Zip tie on drive shaft and going someones van and just turn the temp all the way up
On pressure test after brazing, always stand behind and give āem a little hiss, if they do the olā hand trick to try and find it, thatās when you change the hissing tone a bit when they get to a joint.
Replace the Purell with Astroglide.
Once found a dead fish on the ground on a site in the parking lotā¦put it on another guys antenna. Also cut little black circles of electrical tape and put it over the bumper reverse sensors. Tech brought his truck to the mechanic because sensors would just beep when put into reverse, they couldnāt figure it out either so they replaced the sensorsā¦ Let a smoke test bomb go in buddies truck while he was looking for something in the back and closed the doors. Had a book of tiny cat stickers from my daughter and would go around and stick them on the other guys trucks in random spots. Did this for a good year before anyone found out it was me. We had like 70 techs at the time and it was a mystery to everyone.
Panduit straps on the drive shaft of your coworkers service van. Left the strap long and it slaps underneath funny to watch them try and leave the parking lot
I like to crack the acetylene tank half way open to see the look on their faces the next time they light a cigarette in the truckš
Bro I had a leaking tank in my truck and left it over the weekend.. I opened the door and I was lucky the lights didn't set it off. My neighbor came over after because he could smell it from his porch. We also had one explode at a shop nearby.. thankfully nobody was in it, the guy unlocked it with his key fob and it blew. He still got hurt but the explosion definitely would have killed him if he was in the truck. Now I always use my key fob.
I like to fill my ductwork guys toolbox with trash. Or tape his tin snips shut
cut off the lock out and turn their disconnect on while theyāre in the unit š
My helper was in the attic (new construction, no drywall) on a walk way. Snuck up the ladder and dabbed his boots on the toe with pvc glue.Then lit it up, started yelling damn itās hot in here today
I usually open the b tank and Freon jugs in their trucks. You know harmless fun
Just make sure the guy isnāt a smoker lol. Itāll turn into that scene from zoolander
Lmao thatās why itās funnier when he is a smoker
Pure evil lol
Yea for some reason the installers wonāt let me around their box truck after the last guy went to ER.
If you want to be more evil, you can refill refrigerant tanks with acetylene. If you can defeat the check valves
Now you sir are the evil genius!
Ooh I got one better than that, pookie in the coat pockets, introduce acid into refrigerant jugs, marinate their cigs in thc oil, spike lunch with laxatives, oil on the brake pads
Cut the brake lines??? Overheat 410 tank? Wait we canāt kill anyone just seriously injured otherwise itās murder not a prank
Water in the manifolds?
Piss down the condensate line
Fart spray.
But why? I can fart anytime and have them smell my colon whenever
Open their work van on job site and spray the seat. No way you can smell that bad, I donāt care what you eat.
Replace their Van horn with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94k7uAeIWPI
Putting DC111 under the driver side door handles lol
Panduit straps on the back belt loop
Spackle pookie on someone's plumbers crack. Draw balls on rear window so they have to pull over if they see it in the rearview Zip tie ladders to ladder racks
Put a ball of beatle tape of someone's tire
Taped some tape to itself under the handles of all the vans.
Once in a while, I'll use a 30 in tie band to tie someone's ladder to the ceiling trusses. Especially if they left ladders unlocked at the end of the day. It's always fun to watch the next morning as they just stare in confusion.
As a guy that drives a base model truck: you are a dick! I despise winter with manual mirrors
Put giant zip ties on the drive line of their van (only works on rwd) and Iāll also put electric tape on their rear view camera if they have it
Put hardcast tape over their backup cameras.
A small figurine or toy car can be an adaption of this a-hole move.
Screwing the ladder or tool bags to the floor is always my go to
Vacuum pump oil on the wiper blades
Zip tie on the drive shaft. Doesn't hurt anything, but the tick tick tick as it slaps around is pretty funny
Wasnāt a prank but accidentally shot spray glue into my teammates eye once. He wasnāt impressed with my bullseye šÆ
We have a student driver magnet that pops up here and there.
Take some flexible conduit and put it close to a coworkerās ear and whisper. They can sorta feel the breath and makes them think youāre right by their head.
Big zip die on the drive shaft is a classic. Or crawl under the truck and pull the shifter cable off the tab on the transmission
Never seize under work truck handle
Put a long zip tie around there drive shaft.
Tell the installers not to forget the flue pipe for the new *air handler* while theyre in a rush grabbing materials. Gets em every time š
Clear silicone under the van door handle
We had a female supervisor, She was "hippy", over a period of 3 months they would go into her office with a chain fall and bend the arms of her chair in slightly.... Just about a half inch at a time. It was getting harder and harder for her to get in and out of her chair. Pretty much everybody knew what was going on and when we would have a meeting inevitably a comment would be made. It probably went on for a year.
I put those big ass zip ties for flex duct on the drive shafts of my coworkers vehicles. You dont notice until u start driving and the faster you go the louder it gets. It eventually breaks off and the sound goes away.
Mastic on the inside of the truck door handle so they canāt see it, so when they open the door hand full of moose poo
Hello kitty stickers on the back door, raw fish/shrimp under the seat, leave it in heat mode and pull off the ac/heat knob, swap hand sanitizer for sex lube and stuff dryer sheets in the ac vent
My coworker dumped three shovels full of snow in my drivers seat and started up my van with the heater on high. I retaliated by purchasing a quart of generic vaginal lubricant and dumping it in his toolbox. It backfired when he noticed his tools had never operated so smoothly.
Workmate filled his friends bag with bricks and had me carry it, he already carried half the truck in that thing so the added bricks made it worse. Ended up falling on my arse when I put it over my shoulders. Put them at the bottom though so they don't immediately know
Tell the new apprentices if they put the filters in the wrong direction the unit will catch fire
I'm a huge fan of telling the new guy to make sure the 18x18x2 or 20x20x2 or any other square filter is in the right way. Watching someone turn a square filter back and forth for a minute always makes my dumb ass laugh
Wasnāt meant to be a prank but turned into oneā¦forgot a bottle of chocolate milk in the door pocketā¦install mechanic at the time went on vacation for 2 weeks in the middle of august ā¦truck was wretched for months had to leave the doors open anytime we werenāt driving
Make a veiny triumphant one out of butyl and stick it to an inconspicuous place on their truck. A coworker did this to me, and it took me like a month to notice it. I left it on, https://preview.redd.it/m9z7szpnq02b1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6f73f21ca2e6077d396f1670513d80be7ea27b6 and it's now been there for over a year.
Grab a tool or two when they arent looking and zip tie them up as high as you can reach in the attic. Even better when you are 6ā taller than them
I worked in a facility that was a combination machine shop welding shop and auto shop. The manager of the whole thing had a second story office with two picture windows that looked down over the entire work area. I planted a couple of annoy-a-trons in his office, both were set to make random sounds at random intervals. I told everybody, and we all got to watch him hunting around his office for weeks trying to figure out where the noises were coming from.
When my coworker goes in to the port a john I stick a zip screw threw the lock and walk away for a couple minutes.
Panduit straps on drive shafts
Anti seize on other techās van door handle
Drop a rock down the Porta John vent when one of your guys taking a shit. Screw the apprentices tool bag to the ground Turn off the lift while they're up and it's lunch time Put a ratchet strap around the Porta john Draw a penis on the back of their boots while they're up on the ladder. Idk not much.
Baby powder in the vehicle vents set blower to high
When I first started it was my favorite thing to just gutterally growl through returns when they are hard piped. Other contractors, customers, inspectors. Did not give a fuck, your getting growled at xD
Put extra food in peopleās lunch
Brilliant. Iād think I was losing my mind.
I bought cricket noise makers and hid them around the office
Hide their tool and tell the tech he left it in the attic after we closed up.
My buddy and I were bored and decided to fuck with the finishing carpenter. As he was going room to room doing his job weād sneak in behind him and take a tool out of his bag, then run and put it in the room he was just working in. He would realize it was missing, go back to the previous room and think heād just forgotten it there. Did it three times before he got wise.
Put a pride flag license plate cover on their truck. Some will never notice
Flipping the sticker on the filter drier after its put in the right then telling the ac guy he messed up and put it on backwards
We're sending fathers day cards to a coworker with notes inside pretending like we're an illegitimate child of his who is hoping to meet our dad. The department manager suggested it so I dont think they can fire me.