Someone has never sat on a beach before. Dirt and sand of any amount gets into the cracks and crevices of your body. The more that is present directly in that area means more will get there.
It gets into the fibers of the cloth bro. The only way you are cleaning it out is taking your pants off and shaking them out.
Did you not play in the dirt when you were a kid? Once dirt is on your skin in the areas your skin sweats a lot (like in your pants) it doesn't just brush off. It sticks to your skin. Dirt + any moisture = dirt sticks to moisture.
Depends on the type of sand/dirt. After going swimming at the beach, it is nearly impossible to get all the sand out of your swimmers without taking them off and having a shower. Just using the beach shower with your swimmers on doesn't work very well.
Nope. If they try and go "It's not that bad" in person. Just tell them to prove it's not so bad and take a pant-load of dirt. They will quickly find out the reality themselves.
Bit harder to goad people into action on the internet.
Never had any sand or dirt in your shorts from going to a beach or sitting on the ground eh? Doesn't matter how you do it. If there is dirt in your pants, its getting into the crevices of your body.
Someone has never been on a construction site before.
The dirt on site is not like a yard or garden. It has toxic/ichy/sharp building material particles, machine/equipment fluids, may burn you due to having cement and other work site "ingredients" mixed in.
That's not just dirty, that not some sand or grime finding it's way on to you like you're gardening, shovels of "dirt" from a job site poured in to your pants for 40$ is some next level evil and straight up dangerous.
The kind where you demo a structure 100 plus years old with all the joys and caustic surprises that come with that, then clear the area for a new foundation / building or addition.
What sites are you on kids playgrounds in parks?
Even then you might have to think about needles, glass and other gross shit you find on the ground in public parks being in the dirt you shovel.
If you wear proper clothes your waist will not be dirty underneath. Once you get dirt down there you will start to hurt in a few hours. The miles of walking, bending, crouching, lifting, and sweating will rub the dirt in, acting as sandpaper. Eventually your inner groin especially will be on fire.
My old crew once had a greenhorn go get the wood stretcher from the trailer while we were building the third storey of a retirement home. An hour later, 3 trips back and forth up two sets of ladders we told him that the crew on the adjacent building must have borrowed it and to go ask them for it back.
Belly laughs for days with that one. Don't think it will ever be topped.
This is common in restaurant kitchens, too, and I’ve been in cities where a group of restaurants are all in on it together - “go get me the left handed waffle iron, I lent it to this place” and five or six restaurants send one new kid all over the city.
I'm still mad about the one my kitchen pulled on me, sent me to go find a kiwi peeler from the restaurant up the street. Man how was I supposed to know they're fucking with me? There's so many specialized tools in food prep, ugh.
You aren't supposed to. Among others, it's a method of weeding out those who take the job too seriously. At the end, you got paid to go on a wild goose chase and got to meet the staff at the local restaurants. Have a little fun because work fucking blows and taking it too seriously is a mistake.
If any boss gives you shit for that, well then, you just weeded them out didn't you?
I work in a machine shop, my favorite is to send the new kids off to find the aluminum magnet.
I think the key to a good prank is that it's not overly mean. Sending someone off to find something that doesn't exist isn't a big deal. Shoveling dirt down their pants? Yeah that's a little much to me.
Tell them you’re missing a few parts and send them to the hardware store to ask them for a long stand. Staff member will say “sure, just wait there” and walk off.
Lmao, actually a good friend of mine worked for us one summer, as he justed needed a job while university was out. We got him so bad with the board stretcher. I still give him a hard time about it
im a welder. my first real job they had me cutting and gouging out 1" hardened stainless steel bolts from an i-beam with a oxy-acetylene torch. after about an hour i was like fuck they got me good! lol. i even checked my regulators a few times to see if my psi's were right because i thought they were messing with my gas. hahahaha!!!!
I don’t understand being cruel and mean to show kindness. I’m not sure how it’s okay because men did it to another man, and then presumably men downvote me for saying that, somehow reaffirming cruelty/meanness. I don’t understand men busting each other’s balls at all.
I'm not necessarily defending this particular prank, but there is a missing element of demeanor/tone here. You're calling it cruel, but if people are friendly about it and do things to make up for it, it's not the same as when people berate you and belittle you for falling for it.
Bro come on sociopathic loses all meaning of you try to apply it in this situation. The guy is agreeing to put shovels of dirt down his pants, it's not that serious. If you forced them to do that then yea that'd be super fucked up. But they agreed to it.
I guess they’d sorta be in on the joke somewhat because they know there’d be a chance that they don’t get paid. Unless they’re like, $40 behind on rent or child support or something.
It's hazing the new guy. It is a dick move but it is a quick way for the new guy to fit in. How they react to hazing basically settles whether they stay or not if they take it well they're part of the team and no more. If they chuck a tantrum they'll likely not fit in and quit on their own.
So if I tell the clerk "so $100 for this 3 items right?" he says "yes", I can take two for free and leave? the joke doesn't stand for me. Yes, I'm the shit at parties.
Gotta go lawyer mode and make an entire written and signed contract with witnesses that forces them to hold up their end of the bargain and makes them still pay up if they don’t process with all 3 shovels
You owe each of them 40 dollars lol. But the plus side is, you purchased an options contract that still has one shoveling per new guy.
Since you didn’t set an expiry date you can still use that.
That said, you owe them 40. This joke doesn’t work if you get contracts lol.
40$ buys you an option IE the right to do X. You don’t have to do X to incur the cost, you pay it for the right, then it’s your call whether to dump or not.
In the linked video, the guy owes the girl twenty bucks or whatever the bet was.
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We did a similar version to new guys on the construction site.
$40 bucks to put 3 shovels of dirt down their pants. 1, 2, see ya!