In Germany we ask apprentices to fetch a spare bubble for the spirit level.
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Spannungsabfalleimer gotta be my favorite.
A tensioned trash can?
Spannungsabfall is voltage drop
Abfalleimer is bin
My favorite is sending an apprentice to the tool crib for a long weight.
Tool crib guy will say "Yeah it's out back, I'll go grab it", and then go for a smoke
My friend’s dad thought he could send me to ask my dad for a square drill bit when I was like 10 but my dad had me helping him build an airplane in the garage as young as possible. So I told him
At school in Scotland, one art teacher would send the kids to see the other art teacher to ask if they had any tartan paint left. Alternatively, he would send them to go and ask for a long stand.
I've heard of the long wait before.
I used to work in a hardware store. One day a guy came in looking for a skyhook.
After we called his boss to confirm the situation (this was well before cell phones), we all had a good laugh. I think the boss was shocked he fell for it.
They aren't cheap but you can certainly order them https://etel-tuning.eu/produkt/siemens-lufthaken/
My high school chemistry teacher told me that when he was in university, they'd send the frosh chem majors down to the depot to get a "bucket of mercury". The depot guys would be in on it and fill up a bucket and laugh at them while they struggle to move it. Even a small bucket would weigh something like 200 lbs.
That seems a bit much for a prank since mercury is a toxic substance.
Not long ago they didn't care so much about that. He also talked about how they'd play with it with their bare hands. He's not dead because mercury is only toxic when ingested.
Edit: in retrospect, he is dead. I forgot that cancer got him a few years back and that high school was 30 years ago...
Doesn't it get absorbed?
mercury is only toxic when ingested
Doesn't it give off toxic vapors?
Mercury boils at 356.7©
Yes, but every liquid has a vapor pressure because some moleciles always evaporate - else anything wet would never dry unless heated to water's boiling point.
For mercury it's fairly low at room temperatures but because it accumulates in the body, frequent exposure to unsealed mercury is harmful.
I'm not an expert, but from what little I remember: mercury doesn't immediately kill you like other poisons. What it does do is build up in your body until it hits a tipping point and starts causing problems. Your body has no way to process or get rid of it. Which was why accumulations of it in seafood was a big deal because eat enough of it, even in tiny amounts over a long time, and it starts to mess you up. The amount of mercury that you would be exposed to by breathing near an open source would be minimal I imagine. Or something like that. Like I said. Not an expert. Better to just stay away from it entirely, I'm sure.
Ah, I see.
You meant he didn't die immediately from touching it.
I misread that.
God I've been seeing way too much Gen Z slang that I almost forgot "sussed out" is a real phrase that means actual things.
I'm familiar with the usage here but what does it mean to Gen Z?
"sus" short for "suspicious," often linked to the video game Among Us which became very popular during the pandemic. I'm not sure if that was the origin; the Zoomers seem to like their abbreviations ("rizz" being short for "charisma" is another example) but Among Us definitely popularized it.
Idk about everywhere else, but “sus” or “suss”has been common slang for “suspicious/suspect” in Australia, the UK and New Zealand for at least several decades.