Funny people you work/worked with

[dickythorpe]

So many stories I bet of characters that are or aren't still with us.
I think one of my favourites is a guy I used to work with always used to take a bite out of the apple from the fruit bowl of our manager.
He never got pulled up on it!

 

[legoman]

Guy I worked with had a number of jokes he'd play on people. His two favourites were to stick those little yellow post it notes on someone's back without them knowing and also he'd sneak into meeting rooms leaf through the large A1 flipchart pads and draw a pair of pants on a blank page. Oh yes and hiding a remote operated fart box in the files on the shelves was another one

 

[Darran]

When I was in the steelworks all the offices had the old type phones were you could unscrew the mouthpiece cap.
This is the time when when you had a glass bottle of milk where the cream would settle on the top.
One night shift this guy came in with about five bottles of milk and proceeded to unscrew the mouthpiece caps on all the phones,scoop out half a teaspoon of the cream,drop it into the phone and then run superglue around the thread of the mouthpiece cap and screw it back on.
A week later every time someone answered the phone they were absolutely retching and had no idea what was going on.

 

[Ebo]

We used to have this guy we called 'Growler' who worked in the die stores. He was famous for his short temper and he had this little microscope for looking for damage in the dies. He also had this special rag that he used to wipe the dies and was always folded on his desk. One day one of the boys hid his rag and put pintle grease on his microscope so when he looked through it he would have a black ring around his eye.

Anyway he went mental when he could not find his rag, and one of the boys who we called 'sweat rash' as he was so laid back came in to see what all the shouting was about.

There's Growler going nuts, unaware that there was black all over his eyes shouting "whose got my fucking rag??"

Sweat rash just goes "calm down mun, it's not like you to lose your rag"

I didn't know where to look

 

[dickythorpe]

Good to read gentlemen.
Fascinating as I get into my mid 40's how the workplace dynamic is changing.
Not many characters about and no humour with many now.

 

[Ebo]

Good to read gentlemen.
Fascinating as I get into my mid 40's how the workplace dynamic is changing.
Not many characters about and no humour with many now.

True! I was a fitter 18 years ago and in my new career there are no characters like the old days.

We had these Austrians working weekends / nights fitting in new machinery. The boys would walk around naked with just their boots on to freak them out. Even the boys from the warehouse would drive around bollock naked

 

[Longlostjack]

Used to work in the NAAFI in Germany back in the early eighties. Always enjoyed working behind the ration counter where they sold cigarettes and spirits. Queue would be quite long at times - made up of Army personnel and wives. We also sold condoms. When a young squaddie would mumble asking for a packet, Martin the guy I worked with would shout loudly “ large, medium or small ?” They always said “medium” and the queue would piss themselves laughing.