Things that have made you chuckle at work!!

[kathwilcox]

Lets have some fun with the things that have made you laugh while you have been at work! Be it laughing at a work mate, customer or just something that you have seen.

I will start it off with something that happened just before Christmas, makes me chuckle just thinking about it!:biggrin:

I was working in commercial premises and had taken my son with me to give me a hand pulling some cables through some 20mm conduit, had quite a long run of cables, i'm about 7m up on a scissor lift and he is at the bottom pulling the cables as I'm feeding them through, trying not to loose my fingers, all of a sudden i hear the biggest fart and him say, oops it just fell out, i think he was pulling the cables a little to hard, well after 10 minutes of me being on my knees crying with laughter we finally got the job done.

It's just took me 10 minutes to type this, as it still makes me laugh now!

Sorry but I do find the silliest of thing funny!

 

[Kiers1970]

my apprentice made me a brew, one salt instead of sugar, we did laugh tho, he was scared to death the poor thing!

 

[trev]

We're doing outside lighting, they're very old stone built listed buildings, there's a labourer clearing up underneath our scaff. I jumped down to get some kit, on my return I picked up a bit of stone that's got a sthil saw cut in it and shook my head "Oh no" I said "Stone worm, we have a huge problem"
So after explaining the dangers of stone worm and how they can destroy buildings and a couple of switched on brickies (I know that's a contradiction) the labourer went to the site foreman to try to explain why the whole site should be shut down immediately.

 

[jase]

I remember when i was in the 3rd year of my apprenticeship, had a bit of quiet time, so was doing ods and sods around guvnors house, he had us dig out half of his front lawn in order to put type 2 and shingle down to extend his driveway, anyway we had quite a bit of turf all piled up and so the 1st year apprentice asked us how we going to get rid, well just across the road from the guvnors house was a parade of shops, we came so close to convincing the 1st year apprentice that he could take it over the road to the TURF ACCOUNTANT

 

[trev]

The list is endless

I've got this apprentice who aint the brightest button in the box bless him. There's joiners on site, one of them asks me if I've seen his cordless extension, he gets a two word reply. "How about the boy?" he asks
I tell him I'd be better off without him, just at the time he comes back around the corner.
Joiner then asks him about his cordless extension, "What colour is it?" he asks (Numpty)
Joiner then tells him that someone on the other side of the site had it last, so it's now apprentice tennis. Back and forth over the site for about an hour until someone sends him into the site manager's office
frankie then showed him a corded drill and a cordless drill to try to explain his fool's errand. It took him an age to get it.
Needless to say the young gentleman in question did not get through his apprenticeship

 

[trev]

Same idiot once asked "A mammal that lays eggs? for my crossword"
"Rhinos" we said "Have you seen the size of their nests?"
Stupid bugger took it all in

 

[Mark_Burgess]

I just taken my last exam from school and went to work at a powder coaters, the owners son asked me to go get the Tartan Touchup, off I went to see Keith oh had it, little did they know, I was not stupid and Keith was a family friend, I got a 45min break, and went back before they thought something was suspicious, I just said he is out of stripes to make it up!

 

[kathwilcox]

Other half fell off his steps and half way down the stairs today, that was rather funny! oh well he is a plumber/gas fitter, lol

 

[mogga]

working at the old Edinburgh Royal infirmary guys taking down the old mid stair lift had a youngster on ground level above hole to basement passing dropped stuff up to skip level Basement was old mortuary someone shouted him down he was shaking I asked why he was shaking "Dead bodies n gostiess" was his reply I then mentioned that gosts dont exist and the deed bodies had been removed years ago Then while running my foot up back of his calf I mentioned that only thing down there were the rats he jumped 6ft across hole from a standing start EVERYONE had to take half hour as we were all rolling around on the floor
thats still a fav of mine n it does catch a good load of folk out

 

[trev]

We're taking the mick out of the new apprentice, we're all 2nd or 3rd year so we lay a trap for him, a big length of T+E with bare ends. Round the corner we hid with an old type wind up megger, sent the new guy on a fools errand to tidy up the workshop.
So the cable we're hooked up to starts to move...time to crank the handle. Only problem is it's the big boss who picked it up and we gave him 500V
OOPS

 

[mickys86]

One of the guys at work tells me a story of how they was working in an office and had to get on top step of a pair of steps to get above the ceiling tiles after an age trying to work out what was going on he walked back down the steps.

Problem is that he had managed to turn himself around on the top step so was walking down them backwards, and he's a big lad.
There's a reason why I don't do top steps!!

 

[Phil]

I have a good couple of them but unfortunately i can`t post them in chit chat more suited to the arms or ill be modding myself

 

[TPES]

The kitchen fitters I regularly work along side always wind me up, when I turn up for my first or second fix they always shout out loud so the tenant will hear "here he is, this electrician earns stacks!, he's got new flash BMW, had his own house built for him, abroad 5 x a year" then I'll get my iPad out to to my test Certs on... They'll shout out "Look.. There's nothing this spark hasn't got"........ He's one of these that sounds so convincing, 9 out of 10 customers always believe him. Although he's talking complete blox it still makes me laugh every time..the customer thinks because I'm an electrician, I must earn megger money and what he's saying is true... I just play along with it now

 

[Kamikaze]

We had a young lad on work experience and let’s just say he was a bit special. He only lasted a couple of days on the farm next door to the factory unit we were wiring. The farmer said he was a liability and that in itself should have send alarm bells ringing with our bosses but it didn’t.
On this particular day we had a NICEIC inspection of the unit and the jumped up little Hitler had me raging like a Rottweiler. He wanted slots cut into all the S.W.A. glands, lock rings & distribution board enclosures, and then have them all lined up to stop eddy currents. I was ready to make his birth certificate a worthless document when the lads dragged me outside.
While this went on the young lad got bored, borrowed some tins of yellow gloss from the painters without asking, and had painted a wiggly line on the Tarmac from one end of the lane to the other. Went straight over all the cars and vans including the NICEIC inspectors. The only car he didn’t do was mine. Not because he like me but because he had run out of paint.
For some strange reason I cheered up instantly! :yes:

 

[mickys86]

Hahahahahahaha