banananazi wrote on Wed, 06 April 2005 21:49 |
nahhh
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Hope the reply given is still also joking in meaning you don't do stuff like that. Otherwise since as reaply about your advice it can be taken either way if that's really what you do or recommend, it would not reflect well on you. If it is continuing the joke but not something you recommend, it's still not funny.
A few years ago, I had a show come back from something like the NBA All Star's game. The Video guys pissed off the local crew from what I remember of it. On the out, the local crew decided to save time in instead of un-plugging, just cutting cables than boxing them up. Don't know where the grievences with the local ended up in screwing all production companies involved with the show including some very expensive video cables, but that lighting cable I had to repair was not cheap to do so either. Much less that same gear was expected out the door again the next day. Gee, thanks "Pro's" in us not pissing them off, much less me taking the brunt of their revenge even if I did not even work the show.
Jokes and tricks can be fun a times but jokes are less joke when not done to a specific person and a in general thing to people you don't specifically know are going to be on the recieving end. Have the new guy crawl into the back of a scenery shipping crate to fix something and box him up while you go to lunch. Get the new guy to test out a safety harness, than hook a 64FPM hoist to his harness and send him flying. Now that's fun and games. On the job site, you get someone able to figure out what you did and show it was you who did it and it only reflects badly on you and good on them. That's stupid. Some great revenge idea ha? This especially if they mention it to your own boss.
Once sent out a care package of parts to a production. At that point, it was a few additions a day to the same job and even some after shipping hours. Last package of the day, and while the candy machine still sold popcorn, we (many people helped though I was the ring leader,) packaged up the goods in popcorn. Popcorn was the packaging material of the 70's but never got anywhere - wonder why. The crew chief opened his box and got a whiff of bags upon bags of burnt popcorn inside the sealed box. Much less everyone on the crew got the joke. Unfortunately he was at the time opening his care package from the shop infront of a client.
In jokes, even to a specific person, they can backfire. What did the client think when the crew chief opened his box from the shop in sending the stuff he needed, and it was packed in burnt popcorn I know because I got chewed out for it.
Still it was to a crew chief that was at the time having fun with us in being a pain in the rear, and it was the response direct to him one will have thought simple enough.
"Whenever a group of people i strongly dislike (for good reason) is gunna be using equipment that i use, i do something to fuck with them (usually they're incompetent). pull basic plugs on sound boards, lock out the light board, you know, fun stuff. Maybe pull i few fuses, that'll take em a bit. Heck, pull grounds off equipment, be creative."
These ideas just show a lack of class. That's my opinion at least.
While I will once in a while dump my trash can into a box and put it on the shipping table with a address to go P-1 overnight to some made up location, I also know that it's a direct joke on the shipping lady and I will get my normal "Pinche Brian" from her because she does open the boxes before shipping. That's a joke. Other things are joke when specific to a friend of your's. She does stuff like lock up the casters on my work table chair so they won't move when I glide across the floor to my road box or keep moving the trash can at my desk further and further away, I have other responses. Had this idea about hooking up a vacuum in reverse to the packing foam funnel above the shipping girl's desk. Than plugging the vacuum into the back of her computer so when she turned on the computer, the vacuum in reverse also turned on in making a shower of packing peanuts over her desk. Now that's funny! Get the idea?