What the FLIP IS A LONG WEIGHT AND left handed screwdriver

Nightglow said:
When I started my first job 32 years ago, the assistant manager gave me about £200 petty cash, & told to go to a particular shop to buy sky hooks & a long weight.

Off I went to the shop, but it was closed, early closing day, so I using my brains, I went the builders merchant & spent the lot on about 40 or so pairs of sky hooks.:eek:

When I got back the assistant manager face was a sight to behold, & manager's even better, when I walked with these sky hooks, how he explained things I would like know.
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ahahah... oh dear xD
 
I work in a bike shop, and a few doors down is another one. We often will play jokes on the work experience guys in tandem so...

A while back, a young lad turned up from the other place looking for a long weight, I said I'd go and get it before heading downstairs and doing a few jobs. After about 45 minutes I headed back upstairs holding a long post and told the young man that I'd found the long but the weight hadn't come over and to head back over and ask for the weight...

He returned a couple of hours later looking very very sheepish.
 
I once worked in the parts department of a citroen garage. One of the apprentices asked for a radiator cap for a 2cv and a bag of sparks from the grinder for someone in the bodyshop.

I was once asked to order a door for a nissan. When i was on the phone the panel beater ran in and asked me to get a red one. After asking for a red one i was politely told by the bloke on the end of the phone i would have to paint it myself. At that point i realised what i'd asked for.
 
morkfromork said:
I was once asked to order a door for a nissan. When i was on the phone the panel beater ran in and asked me to get a red one. After asking for a red one i was politely told by the bloke on the end of the phone i would have to paint it myself. At that point i realised what i'd asked for.
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Maybe I am being really slow but I don't get it?:confused:
 
Maybe tomorrow they will ask you to transfer your wages/student loan via western union to their friends account in Nigeria.

Or ask you to buy a cd of a rare band from Manchester called oasis although that one will be difficult as they are not very popular :rolleyes:
 
On a side note back in high school I did send someone to our Chemistry teacher to ask what symbol on the periodic table was the symbol for fire. :D
 
People still say this? Wow. I remember working on a building site in 1998 and the foreman said this to me. I stood there like a complete plonker trying to workout if he was joking or not and then asked another builder who just laughed. Horribly humiliating on my first day...
 
My dad said that when he started work he was asked to go and fetch some black lightbulbs. He claims to have turned the tables by asking them if they wanted matt black or gloss black but I half suspect he actually fell for it and made up the last bit of the anecdote.
 
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