Did they do it to you ? - A right of passage .

[Anonymous]

[:D][8D][:D][8D][:D][8D] ----- What were those they pulled on you when you started in the gang ? Here's mine : I was a young buck at the time & this was before I saw the light of day : went back to school - mostly nights . Well here goes -------- I was working with the mechanics setting up a spring repair job on an old unit that had a fractured suspension support

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Millwright : Okay kid ! here's what I need . Go over to the tool house & get me a left handed cresent wrench .

Well off goes Phil like he really knows what's happening . About the time I arrived at the shed , I'd stopped & thought :
Phil- Wait a minute , I know a little something about mechanics . They don't make a left-hand cresent ! [8D]
So , I pick up a 12 inch cresent & headed back.[:D]

Phil - Here's your 12" inch left-hand cresent .[;)] ( they never did give me a size ).

They kinda' looked at me & after a few moments , and finally said - "What took you so damn long ! "[}:)][:0]

I just smiled : handed them the wrench & booked around the end of the car to checkout the line fittings .[:o)]

Never got asked to do that again ,& that ended the harassement . But , they did send another punk ( rookie / newbei ) over to the repair house to get a can of spotted paint . Too COOL! ! [8D] [8D] [8D]


Let's hear your's--------------------Phil [8D]

[JoeKoh]

yep me too
had to take a load of sailboat fuel (empty) to the basement of a factory.The factory was two plants connected by a tunnel.we called the one part the upstairs and the other the basement.also had to take stuff to the front and back yards.
stay safe
Joe

[coalminer3]

1st time undeground. They showed me on the map where we would be going and then took me there the "hard" way; mud, crud, and water. There was also similar stuff as related above re tools and supplies. Also, anybody out there ever had a grease sandwich in their dinner bucket?

work safe

[CShaveRR]

Yeah, and I fell for it, too.

When classification tracks in our yard fill up, we have to "swing" the cars to a different track. The yardmaster and one of the older car retarder operators were talking about a track that filled up, and the CRO said, "...and we'll have to go down Track (number) with the Henways."

Well, I thought I knew all of the regular classifications, and a few of the common nicknames (like a car for West Chicago would be a "Dogtown"), but I'd never heard of that one. So I did the obvious thing: "What's a Henway?"

No answer.

"Hey, Henry, what's a Henway?"

Nothing.

To the yardmaster, very exasperated: "Roy, what's a Henway?"

"Oh, 'bout two-three pounds."

[mudchicken]

(1) muffler bearings

(2) Lay out the SW corner of Section 38, find the monument records... (Joe Koh - East of you in the Fire Lands, you have 25 sections per township...For those of you east of the Alleghenies or east of Ohio, you can remain clueless along with your south Texas cousins and their Mexican varas or even worse - Louisiana)

(3) Send any green surveyor or engineer out to lay out a spiral curve or switch for that first time (The results are hysterical and we aren't even pulling their widdle newbie legs....all that schooling and still no clue!)

[Anonymous]

Didn't the old-timers sometimes instruct a student brakeman to carry a spare brake shoe around in his grip bag in case of an emergency?

[Anonymous]

Didn't the old-timers sometimes instruct a student brakeman to carry a spare brake shoe around in his grip bag in case of an emergency?

[Anonymous]

Didn't the old-timers sometimes instruct a student brakeman to carry a spare brake shoe around in his grip bag in case of an emergency?

[dharmon]

Okay....navy flight training.......instructor pilot takes controls of airplane "to give student a break". Tells the student, "hey what"s that down there on the right', studnet leans to right, looks down, instructor breaks hard to left........ensuing collision between student's helmet and canopy.

[Mookie]

Blue Prop Wash?

Mookie

[eastcoast]

HEY, KID, GO OVER THERE AND STAND BETWEEN THE TRACKS AND TELL ME IF THE TRAINS ARE TOO CLOSE WHEN THEY PASS EACH OTHER!!

[zardoz]

While in Engineer's School I was my usual class-clown self. One nice, hot summer day, the instructor took our class out to a locomotive (it was a GP7) to give us tour of the mechanical aspects. Knowing full well that I already knew a fair amount about locomotives, and playing on my desire to excell (and showboat a bit), the instructor ask me if I knew how to cut out the brakes on an individual truck, as well as m.u. two locos.

The results of my 'ambition' were two of the dirtiest, greasy hands and arms (from reaching under the frame) one would wi***o have while dressed in normal clothes, miles and hours from any location that one could use to clean up.

I could not figure why the rest of the class was laughing so hard, until I found out later that the instructor had let the rest of the class in on the joke before hand. I was such a mess by the end of the day.

However, I did get my revenge. One of my few talents is the ability to do some sound-effects. One day, as the instructor drove us in the bus to the school, we were approaching a grade crossing. As I was sitting about half-way back in the bus, the echo was just enough to mask the direction of sound. So just as we approached the crossing, I did my best immitation of a F7 horn. The instructor hit the brakes so hard! After a few seconds of no train showing, and the bus full of laughter, did the instructor figured out what transpired. He took it very well!

[joseph2]

The grain elevator where I work used to have used to have a Plymouth locomotive,the brake wheel was next to the engineer's seat.Another new employee asked me what the wheel was for.I put on a straight face an told him it was the steerng wheel.

[sooblue]

Thanks for cheering me up.

If you take the cardboard from the back of a writing tablet and blacken both sides with a black marker then cut the cardboard to the size of the welding helmet glass and place it between the cover glass and the filter glass you will drive even an experienced welder nuts. Great for 10 - 15 min of hilarity.

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by joseph2

The grain elevator where I work used to have used to have a Plymouth locomotive,the brake wheel was next to the engineer's seat.Another new employee asked me what the wheel was for.I put on a straight face an told him it was the steerng wheel.

I hope Skeets is reading this - he likes the Plymouth! I didn't know what it was until he had me go look one up!

Mookie

[adrianspeeder]

sooblue, I think i will try that one in my welding teachers helmet. He is always pulling stunts on us, and this one will get him good. thanks

Adrianspeeder

[Anonymous]

When I was at school, on my summer vacation, I took a job as a helper in a yard making electrical machinery. I was assigned to a rather elderly electrican as his 'gofer'. After one weekend, when I returned to work, my electrician did not show up. When I went around asking about him, I was told, "Didn't you hear? Old Willie died over the weekend."
I was shocked. Then someone told me it was usual for a helper to go around and take up a collection for the widow. This I did. I got someone else to come with me that night to give the widow the money. I dressed up suitably in dark clothing and off we went to the house.
Imagine my shock and surprise when after I rang the door bell it was answered by the 'deceased' wanting to know "what the hell I wanted".
Needless to say, everyone wanted their money back and all about twice what they had put in. I was got good.

[sooblue]

Hey Adrian,
With an instructor you need to be devious. [}:)]
The blacked out lens is too easy, but could be part of a one-two punch. [;)]
If he is teaching you mig, take the nozzel off and wrap the gas jet ports with a small wet leather strip off an old glove then screw the nozzel back on and watch the fun!

The ultimate is the sandwich baggey filled with accetilene, twist tied and placed below the welding area so it gets hit with sparks. IT WILL MAKE NOISE !
Do not do this to an instructor or to an old person or someone with a heart condition. All are fatal mistakes. [B)]

Above all, DON'T GET CAUGHT. [:D]
Sooblue

QUOTE: Originally posted by adrianspeeder

sooblue, I think i will try that one in my welding teachers helmet. He is always pulling stunts on us, and this one will get him good. thanks

Adrianspeeder

[dharmon]

Let's see from the files of student getting the instructors..........

There is a device on anti-submarine aircraft called a MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detector). Any large metal object , ummm like a submarine for instance, causes disruption of the earth's magnetic lines as it moves across them. The MAD equipment looks for these to help locate bad guy subs. It looks like a stinger, or projection on the rear of a ASW plane behind the tail. A trick often played on the newbie aircrew guys is to "check the MAD" which has them take a metal object, such as the crash axe ( a hatchet that is part of the survival gear on the plane) and wave it under the MAD boom to the delight of the others. This is one of the "hey watch out for this trick" items that is passed on during training.

So one day a young new pilot, on his first preflight at the new squadron, is told to grab the crash axe and test the MAD. Of couse he is also told to wear is helmet because everyone knows waving around an axe is dangerous. So he goes out and waves it around and then falls to the ground drops the axe and his helmet and lays still. By the way it's night.......so what the crew laughing at him sees is a guy waving an axe and decapitating himself. He got the last laugh as they came flying towards him with visions of court martials in thier heads. He was the instant hero of all the new guys...

[Anonymous]

My first job, while still in high schoool, other than lawn mowing and hay hauling was working at McDonalds. One of their tricks was to tell the new guys to go down into the basement and pu***he cups up. Being a regular customer and having seen how they stock the cups I didn't fall for it.

[techguy57]

I work in the theatre industry and have been the source and the butt of a number of pranks on newbies. I have been the victim of the left-handed crecent wrench but my favorite prank is one I always try out on our new interns.

We use very high powered lighting (usually from 750-1000 watt) instruments virtually everyday. Obviously these get very hot and since designers more often than not like to use color in their designs, we use color film called gel to produce the look desired. Now gel comes in virtually every color imagineable and I think that why we may have about 5,000 cuts of it (give or take about 1,000)
we only have about a third of what is available. From time to time gels burn through and we have to replace them. No big deal, we get enough for about 10 of our lights out of each sheet at $7 a sheet.

All of this info, so what's the prank you ask? On a slower day when we are cleaning and such, I tell the intern that the gel is getting dirty and we need very clean gel for the next show. So I hand them a rag and tell them to wa***he gel so they are sparkling clean. You should see the look on their faces when they open the filing cabinet jam packed, even over flowing with gel. Like little lost puppies with no idea what to do next. Normally I just grab the rag from them and tell them it was a joke and that we don't wa***he gel. I did have one guy start before I could check on him though. Needless to say my regular crew got a good laugh from that one.

Mike

[clinchfieldfan]

As a firearms instructor for a police agency we always get the recruits to field strip their service pistols to access the batteries for the night sights.

[CShaveRR]

Hey, after twenty or so postings (including mine), is anyone going to mention that this is a rite of passage?[8)]

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by clinchfieldfan

As a firearms instructor for a police agency we always get the recruits to field strip their service pistols to access the batteries for the night sights.

I hadn't heard that one before, but I have heard about some armorers stopping a young man just before he strarted prying the slugs off of live ammunition after being told to check the batteries on the tracers before he shot them.

Then there was one time we were making a flight across the Atlantic with some passengers who had didn't fly alot and were kind of nervous. We had some extra pilots onboard and rotated through the flying duties. On of the passengers asked why the pilots changed, so I told her that while they were pilots, they weren't qualified to do take offs and landings, they only flew at altitude. So as we arrived at our destination, one of the "transit" pilots was in the seat to do the landing with me, and she asked why he was doing the landing....so I told her he had to learn sometime. She went in the back, strapped in and didn't move until the motors were shut down.

On another flight, the pilots switched name tags with the non-pilot aircrewmen. They were in the back playing cards and another passenger asked if they we're in the back playing cards, who was flying the plane? The aircrew told them that on long transits we rotate the aircrew through so everyone gets a little break. Besides we were at altitude and if there was a problem they'd have plenty of time to get up to the cockpit and correct it if there was a problem. So the passenger comes up to the cockpit and asks me what I do and I told him I was a radar operator, but had done this alot so I was actually pretty good at flying. So after a few minutes of the guest nervously sitting there, my flight engineer very quietly leaned over and hit the lights test swtich, which makes all the warning lights come on. The guest started asking "what's wrong, what's going on????" I told him, I'm not sure could you go get on of the "pilots" for me............He literally went screaming down the aisle to get them. Took a while to calm him down.

[Anonymous]

Dan [:D] [:D] [:D]

That is all toooooo funny. [:)]

[kwboehm]

When I was a rookie with the Sheriff's Office I had a partner pull one on me. Our shift was having a party, but I had to work OT for the other shift that night. I'm in one of our sattelite offices, which happened to be across the street from my team's party. I was working on a few reports when this very attractive blonde approached. When I stopped drooling I let her into the office. She proceeds to tell me that she wishes to file a complaint on another deputy, namely my partner. I get a little nervous and ask what happened. She informs me that she had been harassed by the deputy during a traffic stop. At this point I am totally stunned because I know my partner to not be like that. About that time the partner in question walks into the office. I must have lost my color when this female had made her accusation. My partner looks at this femal and say, "What the hell did you tell him?" She tells him what was said. Then I found out the joke was on. "Geez, I told you to give him crap, not scare it out of him! " My partner then turns to me and tells me, "Oh, by the way, this is my wife." It still gets brought up every now & then.