I've always threatened peeing in the ice machine. Haven't done it yet though. There's always the old hide a timer trick too.
What practical jokes do you like to play at the Bux?
I'm Going to Pee in the Ice Machine. Dastardly Pranks and Dirty Tricks
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Posted 2 years ago #
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I haven't pulled any really good pranks, but here are a couple. One closing shift I marked every cup and didn't pull any of the stickers (we used the labeler for both cafe and DT at the time.) so in the morning they had 8 hours worth of drink stickers backed up in the labeler and I guess they just stood there pulling all the stickers out for like 20 mins. ( they didn't realize you could just reset the thing.) I guess the barista was getting really irritated and the opening shift was just watching her and laughing. another time someone put the Via people (the life sized cardboard cutouts we got as displays for the via launch) in the bathrooms at close to scare the openers when they opened the doors.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I like the "timers under the cup stack" trick. And turning over cups of water on the counter so when they pick it up it goes everywhere. :)
Posted 2 years ago # -
I cracked up about the VIA cutouts in the bathrooms.
Sometime on an overnight shift I wanna pull the water-bowl-on-the-ceiling trick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5RG10Kbf2k&feature=related
Posted 2 years ago # -
I pulled some pranks on the openers tonight when I closed, but now I'm regretting it.. I don't know how they'll react and I don't want to get in trouble for it... I think it will be fine though because the shift who is opening tomorrow has put in her two weeks and has already pretty much checked out... plus we are on pretty good terms.
pranks include:
-wrapping EVERYTHING in the safe w/ plastic wrap. including the individual change scoops and rolls of coins in the tills as well as the tills themselves, the cash envelope, the notebook ect..
-TPing the bar area and writing a note in CR sauce on the counter
- wrapping the ice bins and garbage cans, computer keyboard, tea pitchers, and many other things they will need easy access to in the morning
- leaving the music on very loud.
-hiding necessary items in the bathrooms
and I think there is some more stuff. lol.
IDK why I did it, I was just in a goofy mood and I think they will think it's funny if not mildly annoying. it's sort of my revenge too because the opening shift has done something similar to me recently before one of my closes, though not to the extent I did tonight.
I just hope my SM didn't switch shifts w/ her or else I will be fired for sure, or at the very least written up.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Hrmm 12345678. I don't know. The list you described sounds pretty serious. You should expect an angry wakeup call at 5:15AM or whenever your shift opens the store.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I'd turn my phone on silent.
Posted 1 year ago # -
dude, I hope no one from my store reads this... as an opening shift I would be so annoyed! I laugh at all this in theory but in practice... yeah, I like having my morning all scheduled out and I would be kinda annoyed. Just at the plastic wrapped things honestly. The music, not a big deal, and I'm still laughing at the VIA people in the bathroom. I would laugh at that. I honestly would laugh at the timers too, if someone did that to me... after I got over being annoyed because everything annoys me at 4:30 a.m. I'm not a morning person but I love getting out of work at 1.
Posted 1 year ago # -
snip both ends of the caramel bags haha
Posted 1 year ago # -
...no wake up call at 5 am
Posted 1 year ago # -
So the good news is you didn't get an angry call at 5 am... the bad news is that if you don't get written up, you are soon going to get PRANK INFERNO raining down on your head when you least expect it.
My favorite pranks are the kinds that just confuse people, like tying a festive bow around each of the caramel 'slugs' with some curling ribbon that someone had left in the back room.
Maybe no one else is amused at my work, but I amuse myself so durn much that I don't care.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I'm not in trouble... they didn't care.... thought it was funny.
Posted 1 year ago # -
on the evening of march 31, instead of stocking the fridges with milk, we filled them all with TP. it was harmless but fun all the same :)
Posted 1 year ago # -
Wow 1-8, good for you! :D heh.
Posted 1 year ago # -
The baristas must be pranking me all the time. Halfway underneath the grande dome lids stack begins the tall dome lids. Gotta love pushing the wrong lid down on a nice frappucino with whip and drizzle.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Someday I will gain the strength to quit SB. On my last shift ever I am going to upper deck all the toilets.
It will be glorious.
Posted 1 year ago # -
The other day, my coworker sprayed whipped cream into my apron pocket while I was taking a customer's order. Everyone was like "Oooooooh what is [Dry Sharpie] going to do about it?" And for the next few hours, that guy flinched whenever I turned towards him, and he kept his eye on me whenever he needed to turn around or bend over. That was punishment enough for him. The shift supervisor sprayed some whipped cream in his pocket too.
It did help that I turned the creepy gäy vibe up several notches. He's apparently homophobic and now he thinks I have a hard-on for him. He asked exasperated, "How did you know my one weakness?!" and I replied "Because you have a hole there, and I'm going to take advantage of it!"
Posted 1 year ago # -
^ lol
Posted 1 year ago # -
Dry Sharpie, I wish I knew you in real life!
Posted 1 year ago # -
^ Hey, I saw him first!
Posted 1 year ago # -
Haha. I feel the love through the interwebs. I must wear protection!
Regarding the whip cream incident: I was going to take the moral high road and just let him suffer with paranoia... until he made a quip about being afraid to bend over. It was too easy, working in close quarters with him and being surrounded by phallic objects.
Posted 1 year ago # -
You'se guise accepting transfers?
Posted 1 year ago # -
^ My store is made up of nearly all transfers! That and rehires. The newest partner at my store has been there for over a year. Everyone else came from elsewhere. Many of us had worked with the current manager previously and she searched for us when she heard we were either unhappy at our old stores or no longer with the company lol.
Posted 1 year ago # -
It sounds like your manager is assembling a team of superheroes or something. I want in.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Your store sounds like an intrepid band of adventurers. I bet Frappy Hour season was like playing Ravenloft.
OR WHAT DRY SHARPIE SAID I LIKE THAT BETTER
Posted 1 year ago # -
I once put an asiago bagel in the iced coffee canister.
Just to **** them off.
LOL
Posted 1 year ago # -
She's totally awesome. I mean, we have some partners at my store I could do without, but maybe she's not done with her plan to take over the world. Still, it's so much better than the store I was at when I first started coming in here, now that manager sucked!
Posted 1 year ago # -
Phase one: Drop a timer set to go off shortly after drawer2 closes for the night
Phase two: ???
Phase three: Profit.Pretty much hiding timers everywhere is fawken halariouz.
Posted 1 year ago # -
the timers will only beep for 1 min though if you don't turn them off.... they won't just continue to beep indefinitely. I dropped a banana in the safe in a drop bag the night before one of the other shift's last day... it leaked everywhere and she had to do the deposit w/ gloves on... she was so ****, but I lol'd so hard... I don't recommend doing that.
Posted 1 year ago # -
^ I would if you don't like the morning shift.
Posted 1 year ago #
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