What jokes/tricks have you had played on you when starting a new job?

What Jokes/tricks have you had played on you when starting a new job?

e.g. I worked in my Uncles hairdressers on a saturday, washing hair and sweeping up, when I was 13. One day he sent me to the hardware store for glass nails and a rubber hammer to fix the mirror.....I went and asked and they obviously just laughed at me. I argued with them for ages too, telling them what they were for. I eventually realised it was a joke and left red-faced!!! He also sent another girl to the newsagents to get him a copy of the Daily Weekly!!!! I

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I got a job as manager of a photo developing shop about 13 years ago. At the end of the day, on of the girls that worked there gave me a mop and bucket and asked me to take it back to the fruit shop up the road as we had borrowed it.

Off I went in my suit carrying the mop and bucket up the busy High Street. I went into the fruit shop and told them i was bringing back their mop and bucket, they looked at me as if i was mental!! The penny dropped and I had to walk back down the High Street with the mop and bucket!!

When I got back the staff were doubled up laughing, considering I was their new boss they had taken a risk!! Luckily I have a good sense of humour and I saw the funny side, they accepted me after that and we all got on great. The job was rubbish though, I only stayed for a few months!!

What jokes/tricks have you had played on you when starting a new job?

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Been asked to get an elastic sided gusset stretcher, a box of sky hooks, a long wait (weight), the list is endless....great fun though!
my boss rang me up and put on a fake accent so I didn't know it was him and I couldn't understand what he was saying.

But thats not bad some of the stuff he has done is totally harsh, I work in a pharmacy and we had some left over oxygen which he sprayed at one of the girls working there, she jumped out of her skin - it was really funny actually.
long stand , bubble for a spirit level , elbow grease , sky hooks
lol but you were only 13. i would have said what ??? three years ago (when i was 8)
my mum was asked to get sky hooks, and tartan paint, also was asked to call Mr c lion and Mrs g raff at longleat!! :)
I was sent to the garage workshop stores for a" long weight". that,s exactly what i got a long wait.
When I had an advertising job with a newspaper - I had been there for a few weeks when my colleagues told me to answer the phone.

It was one of those wind-up calls - premium rate ones - well I fell for it for a few mins but them relaised what it was!!

haha
Sent to the store for a long stand, another time I was sent for sky hooks.., I was 17 at the time , how niave, older and wiser is the saying, well I,m older anyway.......
someone new started at my old place,where i used to work, they got told to go get a left handed screwdriver and a glass hammer!!!

fecking hilarious.

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wow. lol thats rele sad that you fell for that.
in collage wen the 1st yrs came up we used to send them to the stores too get various items like a leg of salmon or chicken lips or a chocolate whisk lol oh so funny too see when they come back and realise theres no such thing lol
Almost fell for it when asked to fetch a "bucket of steam "

Did ask the stores for a long weight and wondered why I was waiting so long for them to find one, ( no I'am not blonde )
Having tried many of the old gags on my new apprentice it rather backfired when I asked him to get me a rubber mallet, and he said "You're not catching me again."