Do people still bust your balls at work ?

[fastfredracing]

Coming up in the auto repair world, one of my favorite things, was jerking around people in the shop . In my young days, I got the grunt of it, but as I got older, got to participate in it all .
Great fun, some guys were brutal . Turning guys uniform pants inside out , then painting the insides with bearing grease, then returning them to the locker neatly folded on the hanger . We had a dead bird that got passed around from person to person, and all sorts of jokes . Race , sexuality , nationality , it was all fair game, and basically in good fun .
Someone put a grease nipple in a guys tool box drawer, then filled it with our air powered grease gun .
They once electrified the chair by my lift that I would sit on . They had wires passed to it from an outlet, stepped down the voltage, and a remote switch . Those fkers were gonna light me up at break time . !
In the early 90's. I worked with several people of color, 2 gay guys, and a few women at the counter . We were all in on it and all had fun. I don't remember anybody being offended or crying to management .
Old black Joe had a ton of whitey jokes that made us wet our pants laughing .I learned a lot from that guy
I called out for parts this morning looking for Joe, and the guy on the phone referred to him as Jomosexual . I had a good chuckle , then, I thought, sheesh , corporate would probably fry the guy if they found out .
Does it still go on ?

[VINMAN]

Well my remodeling business is just me so, I'm limited to how much I can do to myself!

The firehouse on the other hand is pretty brutal. If anyone has ever watched "Rescue Me", its a very accurate portrayal of life in a firehouse. Ball busting and pranks are the norm. Not a place for the thin-skinned or politically correct. Not much is off limits. But its all in fun. Some of the young kids coming in have a hard time with it, but eventually fit it.

The medical examiners office is just a different atmosphere. There is some ball busting but really not much time for it.


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[masraum]

Yep, still goes on. I work at a very large (huge) global company with all of the HR this and diversity that and constant reminders of all of the new stuff. Small groups of folks that you work closely with still do it.

I know that there are folks that are racist, sexist, whatever and go overboard on stuff that they shouldn't. I'm all for folks being able to not be scared at work. At the same time, we should be able to be adults, and not walk on egg shells.

[astrochex]

Absolutely. Its one of the charms of my workplace.

[GH85Carrera]

We had lots of fun at the photo lab I worked at "back in the day" and lots of sexual innuendos thrown around. We actually told the women that came in looking good that they were looking nice. Now days that can get a guy fired.

We had a ton of small plastic bottles that came with chemicals to mix up to add to the processors for processing the film or the prints. We also bought test strips from Kodak that came packed in dry ice. So we had a supply of tough plastic bottles, and free dry ice. The boss's son was a terror with those. I was on the throne in the restroom, and in rolled a gallon jug that was was swelling up. I finished in a hurry, and bailed out just as the bottle blew with a loud bang.

One of the stinky chemical was a toner for black and white prints, Selenium toner. I hated to use it because it smelled like the sewer backed up at the curry factory. It was rank. I put a little of that on the bottom of the boss's son's darkroom counter as a payback. He kept looking for the sewer backup all day. If I had used some of the really stinky chemicals it would have run all the employees out.

[svandamme]

naw, people don't bust my balls
the trick is to bust other people's balls till they learn to avoid you.

Be super bend over backwards nice to the good ones you do want to see
bust balls on those you don't want to see

[LWJ]

When I was at the Aluminum Extrusion company? Oh my!

A buddy drank each lunch. Then brushed his teeth. Put denture adhesive in the tube. Stuck to his teeth. Hilarious!

A guy flew up from California. We loaded his pockets with tampons. When he put the jacket up in airplane storage it rained tampons on people. Not sure how he explained that. Same guy, put dollar store darts in his briefcase (prior to 9/11). Security asked him about them- which he didn’t know of. His response “well, I am a professional dart player”

And more. There were more. It was outstanding. Best job I ever had. We made a ton of money and had a ton of fun.

[asphaltgambler]

I was never really much into that because I hated to be on the receiving end of it. I was / am light hearted and like a good joke, but there's enough problems in the work day in the automotive business.

I do remember a time where a bunch of us working in an indie shop, very busy btw, in Arlington, Va and it was long hours but great money. Because of the long hours and revolving door for service manager "X", we all decided / agreed what work went to who so there was no pilfering. We were 'self managed'. Of that, we became a 'family'.

A guy who I partnered with, setting up a 'team of two' was over weight and always struggling with that. So he went on one these fad diets and he did initially start to loose a little weight. So all the techs got together and paid off the rental uniform guy to exchange his pants for the next waist size up without his knowledge.

Then we would encourage him in his quest and when the new pants (size) hit his locker and he came out beaming! hey guys! look at this! I need to take up my belt! Secretly, we all had a good laugh and this went on for a short time until he went on vacation. During that time we had the uniform guy take his waist down 2 sizes and they were in his locker, 1st day back.

So when he came in, he said he had blown his diet big time while off, but he was getting back on the wagon that day. When he went to put his pants on, they were so tight he could not get them buttoned. Of course we were all watching as he struggled and then we burst out laughing - then letting him in the the 'joke'.

It was all in fun, he laughed and his pants went back to 'normal' that week.

[VINMAN]

Originally Posted by LWJ

A guy flew up from California. We loaded his pockets with tampons. When he put the jacket up in airplane storage it rained tampons on people. Not sure how he explained that.

Another great tampon story. One of the guys in my station tends to be a real whiny beotch. Always complaining about everything. So one day one of our females just got fed up with him crying all the time. In the fire service, a lot of us carry our door chocks, and other stuff on our helmets under a rubber band, similar to the pic below.



Said female decided to place a bunch of tampons under the band on his helmet while it was in his gear rack. He comes walking into the bay holding it out in front of him, comes up to me and says "Chief this really isnt funny, its uncalled for!" Needless to say, myself and everyone else standing there totally lost it. He ripped them off it and tossed his helmet and stamped away. We knew immediately who did it. We must have laughed for half an hour. We were crying. When he approached her later on she pretty much told him, yeah I did it because you act like a little tw@t all the time. Which made us all crack up again.

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[Zeke]

Like Vinny, being in construction is not a good place for hazing. Like gambler, I have poor sense of humor when it comes to the receiving end. I can't say I've never done anything, I think we all have, just not too much.

Then I heard about someone that suck an air hose up a guy's rear though his pants. It killed the guy. I was probably 30 so that was 46 years ago. I've never pranked anyone since.

Generally, if anyone fkc's with me, they are out of my life. No time for going the wrong way. One of my dealers I have worked for repairing vintage furniture was rude to me. He was kind of a young dick anyway. When he got actually rude, I reached for my phone and deleted him. He's had ghosts call me to se if I'm around to whom I answer yes.

Fcuk him and pranksters.

[gsxrken]

Busting balls is one of those toxic masculinity things that some people will never have the privilege to experience, participate in, or understand.

[fastfredracing]

I learned of this prank one morning before work . We were all standing around drinking coffee . My landlord at the time, pulled this on his worker , only it was hot coffee, not water.
It was actually pretty cruel , but still funny

[Zeke]

One thing that differs me from most of you is that I have never worked with any individuals very long. 2-3 years at the most with some helpers. I've been in offices where the same people sit at the same desk year after year. I call those places hell.

I've worked with literally 1000's of different people. When I was 19 I worked 9 months with the same 4 jokers, M-F as a phone company lineman. Always lunch together playing cards day after day. I've never wanted to be in that position ever again.

I did work with a crew of 15 when I was on the Queen Mary job for 3 months. I left the lunch area everyday to explore the ship. I'd heard enough stories about this pssuy and that pssuy.

It was a union job so I did a few more gigs with the union before getting out. Some a month, some a couple. Same thing every day, talking about nothing other than pssuy. I'd go watch other trades to learn instead of sitting on an upside down 5 gallon bucket listening to garbage.

[Bob Kontak]

Was on an audit at our Paulsboro, NJ terminal in the 2000's.

Dispatcher says to me ""T-Rex will be over in about half an hour."

I ask "Why do they call him T-Rex" She says, "You'll see"

Dude had functional but very short arms.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

I learned of this prank one morning before work . We were all standing around drinking coffee . My landlord at the time, pulled this on his worker , only it was hot coffee, not water.
It was actually pretty cruel , but still funny

Looked like that kid, if 10 years older, would have killed the dad right there in the kitchen. He pulled his first punch. Had it been another kid, lights out.