Workplace Ritual Humiliations of Old


Place i used to work years ago it was the bumps on your birthday but it went a bit further for lads getting married..one lad was tied up and had his overalls opened and his trouser zip pulled down..he was blindfolded and someone filled their hand with shaving foam and shoved it down the front of his trousers..when they took the blindfold off it was his mother who worked in the offices who did it to him.
 
when an apprentice finished serving his time he'd get 'greased'. stripped and covered in all sorts of hacky stuff including axle grease round the bits and bobs.
i was a cheeky get as apprentice so i was given a bit of a rough 'un. all a rite of passage and wouldn't be tolerated nowadays.
i look back on those days with fondness tbh. leaving school and into a work environment with gadgies who taight me more than how to weld.
So how did yous apply grease round the “bits and bobs” to the what I assume young apprentices. It sound dodgy at best.
 
At the kebab factory there was loads of this kind of stuff, would be classed as outright bullying nowadays if not completely against health and safety

The new lads used to get sent over to pick up a massive 120lb lump of kebab dough from the scales, most couldn't lift it off properly and it just rolled down their bodies and onto the floor. the whole factory just watched and laughed as they tried to lift it off the floor.

They asked one new lad to push a metal trolley full of minced meat into the freezer, then told him he needed a run up as the ramp was slippery and they just watched this lad struggle getting the trolley up the ramp and it slid off the side of the ramp. No consideration for health and safety as it was probably a 300kg metal trolley 🤣

The same lad got tight wrapped to the tree outside in the middle of the roundabout

Most of my jobs I've been a lone wolf so no pranks but at another factory we used to take the piss with the usual childish pranks like sending the thickos for a long stand and the gaffers were in on it as well, one lass got passed from section to section for hours before it sank in. Sending the youngins to a different section for a peda file, left handed screwdrivers and other zany shit
 
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Wouldn’t be allowed these days due to health and safety but at my first workplace if it was your birthday you got tied to a wooden cross and pelted with rotten eggs/threw in a skip filled with rotten eggs. Other punishments included bein hung over forth floor balconies by your ankles, shrink wrapped to the town bridge naked in the middle of the night or being stripped, having your balls daubed in ink then iron filings fired all over them. God I miss those days. @Keith S30S or @The soap powder will probably be able to remember others as they worked there too. Any other outlawed workplace practices of old?
My boyfriends dad was in the navy, they did something similar and hung him over the side, they dropped him by accident and the body was never found. Was a right laugh I imagine. Worked out fine in the end coz my fella started dealing heroin to keep the family going and now he’s rich as fuck.
 
Wouldn’t be allowed these days due to health and safety but at my first workplace if it was your birthday you got tied to a wooden cross and pelted with rotten eggs/threw in a skip filled with rotten eggs. Other punishments included bein hung over forth floor balconies by your ankles, shrink wrapped to the town bridge naked in the middle of the night or being stripped, having your balls daubed in ink then iron filings fired all over them. God I miss those days. @Keith S30S or @The soap powder will probably be able to remember others as they worked there too. Any other outlawed workplace practices of old?
Did you work at a chicken farm or something? Where has enough rotten eggs on demand to fill a skip?
 
My boyfriends dad was in the navy, they did something similar and hung him over the side, they dropped him by accident and the body was never found. Was a right laugh I imagine. Worked out fine in the end coz my fella started dealing heroin to keep the family going and now he’s rich as fuck.

f***ing hell :eek::lol:
Did you work at a chicken farm or something? Where has enough rotten eggs on demand to fill a skip?

God knows but it used to happen and no it was a printers
 
My first job in a Newcastle factory they tried to make go on a long walk for some ‘Tartan paint’ etc because I was a ‘Mackem’. It’s not like my old man didn’t work down the yards and tell me about all the daft tricks they played on the apprentices. The utter dullards thought it was funny, so I played along and went to the nearest pub for 2 hours, was a belter first week.

Always remember kids; Be useless, get used less!
 
I’m on about when I first left school man :lol:


Who the fuck is Judo Dave? :)
I was never bullied or picked on at work when i first started tbh.Probs because I was keen as mustard but also I wasn’t a soft touch.

Me and one of the older joiners used to wipe snots on each others hammers etc in unforeseen areas so they would clag to your palm but that was a bit fun.
Every postie you ever speak to is stressed to high heavens.
They don’t know they are born ffs
 
I was never bullied or picked on at work when i first started tbh.Probs because I was keen as mustard but also I wasn’t a soft touch.

Me and one of the older joiners used to wipe snots on each others hammers etc in unforeseen areas so they would clag to your palm but that was a bit fun.

They don’t know they are born ffs
Oh aye, nearly always hate their life though.
 

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