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Posted: September 23, 2004 at 5:28 PM / IP Logged  

OK, I'm so bored. It is so dead I'm selling cemetary plots today for half price. So what's the best installer gags you have done to a new installer or customer.

- the good old fake electrical shock when attaching a wire to the battery is a real beaut.

- my favorite is to snap a screw in half and hot glue the tip to the outside of the vehicle where the rookie just installed a speaker in the door or a lcd in the roof.

- reversing the bathroom doorknob after you just set a nasty trap.

- taking the plunger out of the air nailer.

**** Holy FAK, what is that plane doing so low <ducks> a 4 engine turboprop military plane just buzzed us something fierce ****

- yes, yes, the cap on the brake wire.....

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Posted: September 23, 2004 at 6:20 PM / IP Logged  
I get them to "check the tire pressuer" and blow the horn while they are down there telling me there is nothing wrong. This is good to do when you are pulling the vehicle in for check-in.
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Posted: September 23, 2004 at 6:28 PM / IP Logged  
One of the shops I worked at actually got the general manager to call a customer and tell them that thier blinker fluid was low. How embarassing is that?
We also had a newbie call every store in the chain asking for the 6x9 holesaw and the "custom kit maker". Of course everyone is in on it, the other stores just kept telling him that it was at a different store. He was on the phone for like 2 hours.
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Posted: September 23, 2004 at 7:40 PM / IP Logged  

Ahhh, sorta reminds me of the Navy...

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Posted: September 24, 2004 at 1:30 AM / IP Logged  

my fav was when a customer wanted to be a d*&^ and watch me install his stereo...The one time I remember was right after Saturns hit the market...

This guy brought his brand new saturn in for a simple HU install...He sat in the passenger seat and wanted to watch

I looked at the center trim piece and said " Now I havent done any of these yet ...I wonder how this trim ring comes off." As we all know tha Saturn Trim rings simply pop off with a tug...I grabbed a hold of it and just let out a HMMMMM...

I tugged on it and it made that poping almost breaking noise and this guy turned White and said he was going to go up front he couldnt watch me disasemble his car anymore...I love that...

That noise will get you more looks than a half dressed prostitute...

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Posted: September 25, 2004 at 9:44 PM / IP Logged  
In this city we take that 6x9 hole saw thing to a whole new level. I sent one of my work experience kids to another store in town to get it and he proceeded to get redirected all over the city and when he got to one shop the installer told him he had lent it to his friend who worked the grill at macdonalds and he should go there and get it. So my W.E. kid is in macdonalds asking the poor kid working the grill where the hole saw is. When this guy finally got back to the shop it was time for him to go home and he walked in and I started laughing at him, he didnt say a thing, he just gave me the finger and grabbed his book bag and went home. By the time he came in the next day he was laughing about it. The best part is he was kinda skettchy about it to start with so I had to DRAW A DIAGRAM of what it was and how it worked and he totally bought it.
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Posted: September 26, 2004 at 4:34 PM / IP Logged  
I sent my last work experience dude into the fishing store with a broken power antenna. I had him ask the clerk there for service on his electric fishing rod.....you should have seen the results.....
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I love that one. I have to steal that one this year
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Posted: September 26, 2004 at 7:08 PM / IP Logged  

Here is the end of the story, the clerk is like "you have a what".  He says "I have a electric fishing rod and it is broken". The manager by now has listened in and hears him repeat this and is just stunned. He new something was up but had no idea. Now this particular power antenna when extended did in fact look exactly like a collapseable fishing rod, complete with spool on the end + a couple of wires coming out, thus it was a electric fishing rod. Well after the manager collected himself from laughing for 20 minutes at our work experience dude, he collected the said electric fishing rod and did infact send it out for service. It came back as a Forbidden Audio Limited Edition and now had eyes attached to it, a reel attached to the base and a signature from the builder. This was the best one in years.

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Posted: September 26, 2004 at 7:17 PM / IP Logged  
what we do is put the phone on the PA system, then put it on hold, and tell the new ass. that theres a phone call on hold for him. he will go ahead and answer the phone like theres a customer on the other end...classic i tell you
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