Newbie installer gags
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Topic: Newbie installer gags
Posted By: forbidden
Subject: Newbie installer gags
Date Posted: September 23, 2004 at 5:28 PM
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..... ------------- Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.
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Posted By: Teamrf
Date Posted: September 23, 2004 at 6:20 PM
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 By: auex
Date Posted: September 23, 2004 at 6:28 PM
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 By: flynntech
Date Posted: September 23, 2004 at 7:40 PM
Ahhh, sorta reminds me of the Navy... I can't devulge anything here, it would ruin all the fun.
Posted By: Asmodeus
Date Posted: September 24, 2004 at 1:30 AM
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... -------------  Making the World A Louder Place
Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: September 25, 2004 at 9:44 PM
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 By: forbidden
Date Posted: September 26, 2004 at 4:34 PM
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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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: September 26, 2004 at 6:53 PM
I love that one. I have to steal that one this year
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double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer
Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: September 26, 2004 at 7:08 PM
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. ------------- Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.
Posted By: foltzy
Date Posted: September 26, 2004 at 7:17 PM
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
Posted By: BoominRolla
Date Posted: September 26, 2004 at 10:33 PM
The best one i've got taken on was when I was hooking up locks on a 2000ish gmc pick up and the "guy who had been there the longest" was watching me quietly through the passanger rear window and he just happened to have the factory keyless remote on him... and he could see my every move so when he saw me connect the lock wires he started setting the remote into lock and unlock... then I paused to see what was happening and he stopped... Once I would touch the wire with my finger he did it again... He had me going for almost 5 mins I started disconnecting all my connections getting the test light probing until I could hear him giggling I was like "Ohhhhh, its on...." So a few weeks later my boss brings out a few slices of cheesecake and leaves it on my bench and asks me to share it with the other guys and also leaves his chicken ceasar salad beside the cheesecake... So the guy that took me with the locks come over and is like "Mmmm salad i'm starving!" so he asks who the salads for and I just reply "I Think he (Our Boss)left it for us, he said eat the cheesecake up" so he starts pouring salad dressing all over the salad and goes to town cause its like 1:00 and he hasn't eaten yet and he's just munching away when all the sudden I start laughing slightly, then he thinks for a min, but continues to eat the chicken ceasar salad then just when he has a mouthful of the vegitation sticking out of his face in walks our boss looking around "Ok, did I leave my salad out here???" The guy about pounded me but I got the last laugh... Needless to say I had to buy my boss lunch the next day  -------------
Posted By: Asmodeus
Date Posted: September 26, 2004 at 11:20 PM
The best installer gag I have ever played was onthis one install I had an amp rack that was to come out of the trunk to the rear and display....It was on a pnuematic cylander that was hooked to the Air Bag system that was already in the car....The way the rack worked was it was hinged at the rear of the car and the piston was toward the front of the spare tire well....I hadnt tweeked the valves for the cylanders yet so the piston was tossing the rack up at tremendous speed... one of the new guys was going to do a fill pannel on the side of the amp rack..And he was putting his tools in the trunk so he could get to work (pencil and some carboard)....I had the remote which operated the cylander and when he would turn his back I was hitting the button and tossing his stuff out at him...Like a catapult...It was noisy in the back so he couldnt hear the air piston actuating...It took him like 10mins to figure out what was going on...He had no idea I had the piston on remote... He just kept checking the wiring going to the valves for the piston and was going nuts...He would test it by placing the paper and pencil back on the amp rack...I again would wait for him to turn around to actuate..We all were standing at the door laughing our asses off...Never had so much fun with air piston... ------------- Making the World A Louder Place
Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: September 27, 2004 at 1:30 AM
I put a command start in a vehicle for one of my salesman and used a couple relays so that if he had his head lights on and stepped on the brake his horn would honk. So after I did this it turned out to be almost a week before he drove the thing at night time. He was so confused and he came in the next day and asked me what I thought of the problem, not thinking that I could have caused this. He was always a huge pain in my ass and one of those guys who always was trying to get me to do things for free for him so I gave him a list of about a dozen things to try on his car to figure out what was going on. It wasnt until he called honda to make an appointment to get the car looked at that I finally told him and fixed the mysterious "problem" for him he was pissed but I still think it was damn funny.
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double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer
Posted By: BoominRolla
Date Posted: September 27, 2004 at 10:10 AM
We had a kid almost get knocked out for adding a relay in so when our head installer got into his truck and stepped on the brake the horn would go off... I guess it was bad at the time but now we laugh at it...
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Posted By: jeremyjerm
Date Posted: September 27, 2004 at 10:28 AM
when i was a newbie they tried to get me to call another shop in town and ask for a "wire stretcher" b/c the wires we were running werent long enough. i sat and thought about it and then kept buggin the manager askin "how does it work? does it flatten the copper? "
thats when i seen him smiling and new it was a con. But we did get another newbie to do it a month later. it was hilarious.
Posted By: awilliams64
Date Posted: September 27, 2004 at 9:42 PM
this isnt an installer gag but i had a guy today come in and told me he wanted his cd changer moved. I had put it under the drivers seat for easy access and he said he wanted it moved because he said the laser in the changer would cause him to get cancer of the colon...so i moved it, not sure what he is going to do about the one in the dash!!!
Posted By: raydawg357
Date Posted: September 28, 2004 at 8:36 AM
I've wired a mercury switch, 9volt battery and a siren to lid of their tool box so when they open their tool box the siren goes off. ------------- Do it right the first time
Posted By: SEXIFIED
Date Posted: October 25, 2004 at 7:55 AM
a bunch of us decided to play a joke on the "new guy" and duct tape his box to the wall,then the day after that we moved his box outside onto the median between the 2 streets, he was o.k after he got some swearing off his chest but when i came in the next day and found my box built into a giant sub box (even carpeted) i figured payback was a bi%$#h.
oh well all in good fun though.
Posted By: dxav
Date Posted: October 25, 2004 at 9:54 AM
One of my favorites, and getting the local hardware stores in on it helps, too.
When welding metal (for anything, really), ask the new guy to get to the hardware store and pick up a "can of sparks". If you know the guys at the stores, have them play in on it. The newbie may figure it out after the 3rd store.
That is funny.
DXAV
Posted By: 94legend
Date Posted: October 25, 2004 at 1:13 PM
Some times its the reverse, Or i would just ask stupid questions just to annoy the installer or to see if he's really hooking me up.
Like this one time, I came in an audio shop. And was looking around. I came across an amp that said 1600 watts. So i asked the sales rep.
"Wow 1600 watts of power, so how much does it really push?" He kept telling me 1600 watts. I was like ok. Sure.
Then i came accorss a DVC sub, and asked him y is the sub has dual voice coils?
He told me " Those terminals are known as voice coils, that way the sound can travel fastter from the headunit to the sub, rather than have one SVC."
I was like wow, Ok i'm going to head on out towards the door.
Its amazing how they bull Shhieetz on products just to get you to buy them. But i laugh ! good thing its not me who buys them. ! LOL!
Posted By: dxav
Date Posted: October 25, 2004 at 3:19 PM
You mean the sound really DOES NOT travel faster? Faster travelling sound is cool, but I wouldn't want to pay extra for 6-12" of wire just to have 2 voice coils.
Humorously,
DXAV
Posted By: flynntech
Date Posted: October 25, 2004 at 7:42 PM
I heard of one where the new guys at a machine shop were asked to retrieve some acetone....they were given a styrofoam cup.
Posted By: Cartoys69
Date Posted: October 27, 2004 at 4:26 AM
The classic in my shop is after installing a cell hands free kit, in the testing process to call the store and ask for the newbie sales person, and tell them things like, I just had my radio installed in my 04 Lexus and there is blood all over the seats, my dash is cracked and my 9mm beretta was moved, so ill be there in 5 min. to have a little chat with you!!!!! Then go up to the sales floor and ask the newbie how there day was going. and play it off from there. That will brighten any installers day.
Posted By: tbirdman74
Date Posted: October 27, 2004 at 3:39 PM
I used to enjoy sending the nubes to the hardware store for a T R Double E.
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