Picking on the new guy

[Casino Jockey]

as my name sugests i work in a casino. I heard this story 3rd hand so i can't verify it actully happened. but it has entered folklore at my casino so i thought i would post it here.

there was a new dealer on the floor that was sent to hunt down a non-existant item (similar to the way tradespeople seand apprentaces to the hardware store for a bucket of elbow grease or a box of holes.)

he was sent from pit to pit, always speaking to the pit boss. the pit boss would than call the next pit, leting them in on the joke.

the item he was sent to find? a left handed roulette ball

[FTGTF]

I'd believe it. I mean what's the point in hiring new people if you can't mess with them

[BlaqueKatt]

at the military hospital my ex-husband worked at their quest was to requisition a box of grid squares from supply-they even sent the new person from dept to dept with requisition form to be signed.


BlaqueKatt-hoarder of the grid squares

[Becks]

Sounds like in baseball when the players send the newest batboy(s) to find the lefthanded fungo bats...

[RentalRacer]

Ahh yes we used to play this game in the restaurant I worked in...here is a few things we always got the newbies on...

Prep Cooks were instructed to peel 5lbs of rice for pilaf. Of course, we needed them to go to the store and buy a new rice peeler! Which was right next to the cans of steam.

Servers-First time they broke a plate/drink glass etc we told them to use the glass magnet to get all the pieces off the floor.

We had a new cook get Jalepeno juice in his eye...one of my fellow Bartenders told him to squirt lemon juice in his eye to "nuetralize" the hotness...poor bastard.

I was talking about car stereos with one of the new servers and this new busboy butted into the convo trying to rooster block me talking about how much more he knew about electronic stuff then me. I sent him to Staples for a Cordless Extension Cord...he went...staples even called me to clarify what he needed, as he was insisting they exist...I let the staples guy in on my joke and told him to send the guy back.

[toomanycalls1]

My brother

When my brother won a contest to be a batboy for the day for the Cubs and pitcher Rick Sutcliffe told him to go get the key to the batter's box.

My brother told him that there was no key. Rick said he was one of maybe 3 kids to catch the joke in the 5 years he had played for the Cubs.

We saw Rick last year at the Cubs convention. He still remembers my brother because my brother handed him the bat where he hit a game winning homerun as a pinch hitter.

[Bagga]

It is a tradition in UK factories to send apprentices to the stores department for a "long weight". The storekeeper then ignores the apprentice and times how long, or how many requests, it takes for the apprentice to realise. They can sometimes stand at the counter for hours....

And there are also: Left handed hammers, left handed screwdrivers, tins of spotted paint....

[powerboy]

At my 2 last wood working factories, we would send someone who is not doing good, out to look for a Wood Stretcher. I once got asked to look for a box of holes, and yes I know that there was no such thing. What did I do, I went and got a box of donut holes. On my first week at my old job, they told me, to go look for a wood stretcher, so I just went out and picked up a 16' long 2x4, I was gone for about a minute. We had a good laugh about that one. I was the only one to ever do that,

[Bagga]

Wood Stretcher...

Being a smartass, I would have been tempted to grab a hammer. some nails, two 8-foot long 4x4s, and a piece of plywood and constructed something suitable for carrying injured football players off the field with....

[Monica]

I didn't do the following, but a co-worker did. We would have a new person, and they would be working on movie returns, and the co-worker who has been there for a while would take a stack and go to the shelves to put them away. Now keep in mind he did this when there was no customers in the store, and when the new person has been there only a day or so, and there was no one else working.

He would take the stack of movies to the shelf, trip himself, making himself drop all the movies. He would then yell the the co-worker to get someone to help him because he was hurt. The new person, would try and call the office, but since he didn't know how the phones worked, he couldn't.

[HalloranElder]

And there are also: Left handed hammers, left handed screwdrivers, tins of spotted paint....

What's fun is when the new guy is smart enough to fight back!

A guy I know had just started his apprenticeship, and was sent to get a left handed screwdriver and some striped paint for the feature wall.

So, he goes to the hardware store and does a little bit of shopping (all on the bosses expense account), and then returns.

First he gave his boss a new screwdriver (the most expensive one the shop had) and said it was the new "ambidextrous" model and could be used by right and left handed people. Then he told his boss that he hadn't specified colour, so be got the basic black and white stripes, as they could always tint it later.

Boss opens up the tin, and sure enough, black and white strips.

What he had done was bought a tin of basic interior pain, and a small piece of black and white stripped lino, cut the lino into a circle the right size, and squeezed it into the paint tin so it was floating on the paint.

He never had another problem working there.

[HYHYBT]

I've tried some things that were suggested in a previous version of this thread: telling people to water the (plastic) plants, or to inventory ice cubes, or to get something from the (nonexistent) basement, but they're all too smart.

Yet people say "burger flipper" like it's an insult...

[Lace Neil Singer]

At the country park, when I was there we had owls and perigrines there for a while. The tradition was to send noobs to go feed the owls and perigrines. The owls were fine, but whenever you opened the door for the perigrines, they'd fly right at your face. It was one hell of a shock til you learned to just open the door a teeny bit to throw in the dead chicks. I never got tired of watching noobs jump back like they'd just gotten an electric shock.

And by the way, it was done to me and I actually forced myself not to jump back cuz I'm totally bloody minded that way. And they do go back, they don't try to escape. They're just so desperate to be fed that they can't help themselves.

[friendofjimmyk]

I think I've posted this before -

One of the restaurants I worked at we had a trainer who would send trainees to get a can of steam for the cappucino machine or a plastic frying pan for the kitchen.

It was too funny to see the trainees running to the dry storage for the can of steam or asking the cooks for the plastic frying pan!

[Blinky]

Alright this really didn't really happen to a new person. It happened to one of the sups here so it's even better. We had a call on the interstate for a tire change. The call specified that we needed to bring air because the spare was flat also(we bring air regardless). Well the guys down the shop thought it would be fun to mess with the supervisor. They called her up and asked her to call the member to verify what kind of air he had in his tires, summer or winter air. Because, as we all know that makes a difference because winter air is denser then summer air. She had half of the phone number dialed before we stopped her.