Have any of you been caught out by a work place prank/joke?
You know the usual stuff...
"go fetch a bucket of steam"
"can you get me a left handed screw driver"
"go to stores and ask for a long stand"
"see if you can borrow John's glass hammer"
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We have French doors at work with long curtains to pull across.
We got a spare pair of shoes and placed them behind the curtains with the toes sticking out.
. . . and waited for the nightshift to come in 
Originally Posted by Saint:
We have French doors at work with long curtains to pull across.
We got a spare pair of shoes and placed them behind the curtains with the toes sticking out.
. . . and waited for the nightshift to come in
I like that... but what happened?
She came in and froze - literally 
I had to say it was a joke cos she couldn't move LOL
Originally Posted by Saint:
She came in and froze - literally
I had to say it was a joke cos she couldn't move LOL
Please tell me it's the woman you don't like
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by Saint:
She came in and froze - literally
I had to say it was a joke cos she couldn't move LOL
Please tell me it's the woman you don't like
Nooooooo it was a friend
It had to be . . . she eventually saw the funny side 
Twas hilarious if I'm honest
You want sugar in your tea?
You get seven
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Have any of you been caught out by a work place prank/joke?
You know the usual stuff...
"go fetch a bucket of steam"
"can you get me a left handed screw driver"
"go to stores and ask for a long stand"
"see if you can borrow John's glass hammer"
I didn't/haven't, I was too astute for that Always had me wits about me 
And now, I'm too long in the tooth to be taken in 
However, it takes me back to someone that had to go and ask for a tin of tartan paint 
Another thing we do is wait until staff answer the phone - say its Julie.
When they say, "Hello" and begin talking we tend to say,
"Julie, Julie, Julie, Julie - hey Julie" just to annoy
Originally Posted by Jenstar:
Worked in hair dressers at age 16... was sent to the butchers for chicken lips... D'oh!
While you are there Jen can you pick up some hen's teeth for me.
I was taken in by one of the maintainance men(when I was a 16 year old clerical assistant) who told me he had chicken lip sandwiches every day. He said they were an expensive delicacy.
Back in the early seventies I took my first summer job, gardening at the local hospital. The first day they sacked one of the porters, and I was suddenly a porter earning pretty decent money for a student. During the first week someone 'phoned and asked if I could bring a Monkey Bar to Ward 8?
I thought that I wasn't going to get taken in by that so did nothing.
Next day I was hauled before Matron for an interview without coffee, where she explained that next time the ward sister requested something then I had to comply. A Monkey Bar was the apparatus by which injured people pull themselves up in bed. How we laughed! (Not)
For my younger readers, Matron was the senior nurse who ran the Hospital before the days of several lines of managers.
I thought that I wasn't going to get taken in by that so did nothing.
Next day I was hauled before Matron for an interview without coffee, where she explained that next time the ward sister requested something then I had to comply. A Monkey Bar was the apparatus by which injured people pull themselves up in bed. How we laughed! (Not)
For my younger readers, Matron was the senior nurse who ran the Hospital before the days of several lines of managers.